That is stunningly insane, it looks more like an ordinary field than a grass runway! I love the way he pulls the nose up so far to slow down. It must have been quite an experience to even see that landing, never mind be on the actual aircraft!

Paul

Not sure he meant to pull the nose up that far!!??
See all the grass/dirt blast vertical from the reverse thruster doors too LoL.

I’m not too sure! – I heard she was to be scrapped, but maybe a new wing and engine bay and she would fly again?

From the head on shots it looks like there is no other damage apart from a wrecked nacelle and power unit. (The aeroplanes not the Grounds!)
Presumebaly the pilot slammed on the anchors when he heard the racket of the fan hitting the GPU. The force has broken the Engine mounts but it looks like the spar behind them is sound.
She’ll be skybound again.

And yes, commercial pressure to get their slot is a main cause of accidents such as this.

One really could get the impression that MoD-by-Keypub-Forum would yield better results than Whitehall.

Could the IAI G550 AISIS work as fast-track replacement?

No impression!
I’ve worked with the MoD for far too many years. It is staffed by seconded erks that would rather be swinging on a spanner than deskbound, office workers that are too meek to make it in the business world and run to the protective womb of the Civil Service, Officer level decision makers (On secondment or Civvies) that spend their two year posting by (a) 6 months unravelling the previous incumbants work (b) 12 months starting it all afresh…because they are paid to give a fresh viewpoint and (c) their final 6 months trying to engineer/wangle a better posting.

The ownership of decisions that are made (*) is nil. “I’ll be long gone” or, “The next Government can worry about that”.
These are quotes, not anecdotes.
I wish I could refuse to pay tax sometimes.

* A decision comes round like Haley’s comet. I can show you 14 months of meeting minutes with not a single decision made. Sorry, I lie. Date and time of next meeting was always sorted.
And yes, the meetings were indeed all on the same topic.

What operating systems and web browsers do you use? I use Mac OS-X and when using Safari I have the same problems you mention. On the other hand, when I use Firefox it always remembers me.

XP pro
IE7

I used to get similar problems when I had a garbage ISP, because “Inactivity” meant they put your bandwidth to an “Actual” user. I thought this could be happening here, maybe not.
I belong to about 12 forums for various reasons, but this one is the only one which times out.

This is spooky…..
I have a picture somewhere, almost exactly the same as your first Channel Islands one…at the old Manchester…when it was still truly called Ringway.
Taken in the days when you could walk along the top of the piers, that one being the International pier.
Nowthen if that’s a CL44 in the overnight bay it is highly likely to be one of Loftleider’s. If it’s a Britt, highly likely to be one of Monarch’s.
I suspect the picture was 1971 or 72?
I also suspect that on the South Side there, that’s a Heron. I can’t remember who’s, but it was a white livery with a blue cheat line.

Too good for mere words.

Very boring questions……what kit and what post processing software was used? (I know the skill is yours, but I like to know what the pro’s choose)

What the ******* is a ”Paltroon” ? :diablo:

Somebody who claims to be bright when in fact they use wikipedia / google.