Pub food is usually quite good, and pretty affordable. If the regular food (which seems to be either some sort of stew or Indian) doesn’t suit you, you can always have breakfasts 24/7, or stuff yourself on the plethora of desserts 🙂

Having been in both (although the A50 was the prototype and in a really poor state), i have to say that while the E-3’s internal finish is definately better, the wider and higher cabin of the A-50 definately has it’s merits. There is more room to stretch yourself for some time during a long mission, and you don’t have to be a dwarf to reach your position either in a MAINSTAY.

I don’t understand how you guys could think the A-50 is ‘cramped’ inside. Ever even been inside the cargo bay of an Il-76 and compared it with the cabin of a 707? Please.

The Jag only carries short-range missiles on it’s overwing pylons – Sidewinders or Magics. They are certainly not wet pylons where you can put fuel tanks on.

The Lightning could carry really odd overwing rocket/fuel combo pods, or at least it was displayed with them. I don’t know if Kuwait or Saudi Arabia ever got them, the RAF certainly didn’t.

It’s a Lockheed product, so it should be something celestial or at least atmospherical. Planets, constellations, stars, meteorology, stuff like that. Starfire, Neptune, Starfighter, Lightning, Orion… the latter combining nicely with Greek mythology Lockheed liked to use for airliners and such.

So in that category, F-35[sic] Astronomic would do. As in Astronomic Cost Overrun.

That’s the one!
I guess they had to make that, their chief bodywork designer liking boxy things so much.

Hey, the one Lambo i ever drove was a tractor. Still impresses a lot of people though: “Yeah, i went off-road in a Lamborghini.”
They have a terribly ugly and expensive off-road car too, something about as tasteful as a Humvee (yuck). I believe one of the more disgustingly rich Gulf states bought them actually for their military.

CRV-7s are Canadian-made 2.75″ rockets to fit the standard seven- and nineteen-round launchers. Their rocket engines are extremely powerful compared to other 2.75″ rockets (US-built, Belgian built, Italian), which makes them pretty effective even in an anti-armour role. The SNEB has indeed been retired together with the GR3 Harrier – the rocket itself being both bigger and weaker than the CRV-7.

I have to disagree here Oren.
First of all, i think the context definately matters. Beginning a sports event with some overt political statement is a bit dubious IMHO. It’s one thing if you start a sporting match with singing anthems, but rallying up nationalistic tendencies for a sporting match by having an orchestrated bash at another nation is something of a different league. Although i could be wrong – it wouldn’t surprise me if a North Korean figure skating contest combines some anti-US-propaganda with it. Somehow it strikes me as a bit dubious coming from a Western democracy (call me biased if you will of course).

Furthermore, burning flags at a political rallye or demonstration does IMHO try to bring forward the idea behind the flag-burning as a point of view beyond just the attendants of that demonstration or rallye. It is a demonstration after all. On the other hand, a sports match (and especially something like US-style show-wrestling) is primarily aimed at an already existing audience, and doesn’t seem to have ‘export of ideas’ as it’s goal. There’s a big difference in preaching for your own parrish and trying to spread the word.

This makes the burning of the French flag at a WWE to me look more like an attempt at entertainment than as a serious political statement. Which IMHO is quite different from burning flags out of political motives.

And burning flags in a private setting is considered the most ‘right’ way to dispose of a flag that is no longer suitable to represent it’s country.