There’s nothing RAF about those colours if you ask me. Civilian registrations, civilian colours, no reason for me to wake up. Boring!

I don’t know. By the time i stopped learning English and started blabbering, bullsh!itting and ignoring all advice my teachers ever gave me i think i got the hang of it.

Learning a language requires lots of alcohol, and an occasional read.

Hey, if you book your ticket ASAP you haven’t got the right attitude to be a diehard fan 🙂

But i guess we’ll be meeting each other somewhere next year!

Sorry guys. Right now, i’m having a balcony-BBQ. Merguez sausages, marinated pork steaks, Nürnberger weisswurste…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
😀 😀 😀

I like the idea. Especially since the Gripen was designed to be flown the Swedish way: no flare, just fly against the deck. Construction-wise it shouldn’t be too hard to make it suited for deck operations because of this.

However, i do think the Gripen is a bit underpowered for carrier work. But then again, as the engine bay should be capable of housing an EJ200, that could be considered.

Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!

As if i didn’t love the Czechs enough! A great dekujeme from me to them, for choosing quality over bully-bulk. Too bad the losing side can’t resist to show the face it so desperately tries to hide…

And since the Czechs don’t have the G in their alphabet, i believe it shall be Hripen. Even cooler 😀

As for that Dutch kill, it was an F-16AM. The Israelis did get some combat experience with their Block 15s, and i believe some of the ANG units deployed during Desert Sheet/Fart were block 15s as well. No -ADF’s of course.

No, just the wooden bench. I probably wasn’t there when the pic was taken anyway, as there is no smoke from the BBQ (which should be in the treeline to the south of the Eastern threshold).