Don’t get me started on the J cargo floor – the RAF movers got what they wanted, commonlity with the USAF H models. The rest can go hang.
Yes, the RAF should have had the ECHS floor, so that the J would have eventually had commonality with the A400M, which will be getting a version of it.

It looks like the burghers of Southampton are miffed at their neighbour Portsmouth’s on time, on cost, working lift (not) Spinaker tower.

Can I speak up for the Assault Glider Project (as they don’t get much of a mention on this NG)
Not only are they building a Airspeed Horsa from scratch, but also they are also producing another as a kit of parts for the American Museum who supplied their WACO and a spare Horsa cockpit for a mobile display.

Whoever it was who came up with the idea of extracting pallets of missiles out of the back of a tactical airlifter never explained what actually happens to a parachute extracted load after its left the aircraft to the graphic designer who produced the artwork. I still giggle every time I see the picture.

And here was me thinking it would be Brompton North Yorkshire. A Field and hill used by the gentleman who even the Wright Brothers aknowledged as inspiring them. Sir George Cayley.
Mind you the French would claim it was the grounds of the Palace of Versailles.

The A400M is far from being a paper aeroplane. I only wish it was, as I’m getting fed up with asking Airbus for detailed design drawings (ie ones with dimensions). All I get out of them are pretty computer images which for my purposes are as useful as a chocoate tea pot. ?:-))

Airspeed Andy check your PMs

Almost everything that flies wearing a roundal of her majasty’s armed forces plus the odd ones such as Andovers, BAC 111s, Alpha Jets and lets not forget the Harvard. Then of course there is the visiting foreign types and transitting civvy types. The curse of having the approach to Boscombe Down beyond the back garden. Oh and living in a village that is a visual reporting point for entry into the SPTA – which means you get Appaches low overhead at midnight.
When the chap came to view the house next door, the wife arrived with the estate agent in a car, he landed his AAC Gazelle in the cornfield at the rear of the house!