You Americans have been set up.
I don’t care who wins, it actually doesn’t matter.
But the McCain chap seems like a completely pointless choice. He has the personality and charisma of a wet groundhog. He would be ripped apart by any slightly strong foriegn president / prime minister.
He is so bad, he must have been put there to force you away in the other direction. The republicans must have taken a large payment for this.

By courtesy of the only readable news, The Daily Mash……

LOCAL authorities across the UK were yesterday stunned to discover that Iceland is nothing more than a volcano surrounded by two million haddock.

As the volcano’s banks refused to pay out, councils said they were convinced Iceland was a small, landlocked country next to Belgium with a long history of expert financial management.

But after 15 minutes on the internet they confirmed it was nothing more than a slab of stinking lava populated by a handful of wilfully eccentric musicians and half a dozen heavily bearded trawler captains.

Julian Cook, director of finance at the Local Government Association, said: “I meant Luxembourg – sh!t!

“I suppose the haddock-shaped piece of lava with every new account was probably a clue.”

Mr Cook is now demanding £1bn of taxpayers’ money in compensation for losing £1bn of taxpayers’ money.

He added: “When the taxpayer is exposed in this way it is only right that central government should step in with its own funds, wherever they come from.”

But the Treasury has so far refused, criticising the councils for investing huge amounts of public money in badly run banks.

And another story……………..

BUILDING a time machine to take us back 18 months would have been cheaper than the multi-billion pound bank bail out, it was claimed last night.
As the government spent £500bn recreating the exact economic conditions of April 2007, Britain’s leading time travel engineer said he could have done it for half that.

Dr Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: “You need a Vauxhall Corsa, a small amount of plutonium and something I call the ‘flux capacitor’.

“You simply punch in the date – let’s say, April 15th, 2007 – activate the flux capacitor, and accelerate the Corsa to 88mph.

“At that point a hole opens up in the space-time continuum and in the blink of an eye you’ve got mortgages being handed out like free newspapers and credit cards coming out of your a*se.

“And once you start giving people credit they can’t afford and engineering a global banking collapse, you just jump in the Corsa and start all over again.”

He added: “Of course, in 2007 there was no such thing as plutonium so we’ll have to rig up some kind of giant lightning conductor. It’ll be fine.”

Meanwhile the National Audit Office has also criticised the government’s overspend on recreating April 2007.

A spokesman said: “It would actually have been cheaper to launch an intergalactic space mission to search for the planet Krypton, find Superman, bring him back and get him to fly round and round the Earth until it started rotating the other way, thereby turning back time and opening up the wholesale money markets again.”

Politicians.
When they mess up, why on earth are you surprised?

The desire to be a politician is true testimony that you are not intelligent enough to actually make important decisions.

Look.
I am better than any God.
Stop arguing. Religion is wrong, live with it.

The E-8 fleet is going through an upgrade now from TF-33 to JT8D-219. Slight bump in thrust, as well as efficiency. CFM-56 lost out in this competition. Reasons were said to be the big fan engines blocked too much sensor field of vision…

Now we don’t have to worry about that on the B-52, however the slim profile (about the same as the TF-33/JT3D) may have its benefist in a 1 for 1 switch. New pylons would be needed, but they were needed when the design went from turbojet to TF-33s too...

..there was money then. Pinko’s didn’t have a say in Defence spending.

You’re getting closer to the truth mate, keep going, but the fact is, the religious don’t ask the question “is there a God” because without God there is no religion.

I’m with you VicB, no God exists but some people need a hope to cling onto.
A bloke called Jesus probably existed, but by the time the story was told it passed dozens of mouths and got exaggerated every time.
I do not believe, yet I am forced to live my life with the consequences of it. I take the holidays at Christmas and Easter, I obey the laws of the land, most of which stem back to 10 lumps of stone.
Although “Though shall not kill” should be overlooked and this man should be killed. Even the Arch Bish of Cant. would go on live TV and slit his throat – and be upgraded for it.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Father-admits-grooming-daughters-then.4617778.jp
As my earlier post suggested, there are some seriously mentally ill people in all religions, including the christian ones. Realising that the looneys are on the fringe and not tarring all fans of the churches of course.

Eight CF34 or BR710 would fit with relatively little pain.

Actually with all those S3 Vikings being retired to AMARG maybe that could be an interesting use for the fresher CF34 hanging from their wings.

The BR710 has a 48 inch diameter fan. Not sure that would fit in the nacelle.
The nacelle would need redesigning anyway, the shape will be wrong, the intake will definately be wrong. There is a massive amount of design work needed for an intake – they are very special pieces of kit. The design has to reflect the intake volume of air, the pressure it creates, the soundproofing (Highly critical in today’s world, especially as most engine noise on a by pass engine is from the interaction of air hitting the initial fan blades) and last but not least the heating system for the lipskin.

Once you design a new nacelle, the pylon has to be redesigned. The thrust of a modern engine is probably more powerful (Especially the spool up time) than the Tf33 so some beefing up of the mounts/spars would be needed.
The 8 bolts that hold a B52 wing on may not be enough, so the Wings Rib Zero interface to fuse would need a redesign.
A fatter / different shape nacelle will also affect the interface drag between pylon and wing, it could also mean differing vortices, not only along the wing but going back to the H-Stabs or even the Fin. So lots of wind tunnel tests.
If it did fit, the new lump/nacelle needs testing with the chickens, the blade offs etc. That would be about 6 engines and nacelles written off as Test sets.

…It never ends.