Back to Cosford. I can’t see how they could do it simply on the grounds of access. The Vulcan and Victor are positioned behind the top hangars ready to move directly into their new home. To bring them down onto the airfield would be a mammoth undertaking and would possibly mean the construction of a new roadway to facilitate their movement. I would imagine there is not enough room to attemmpt to locate the three V Bombers near the Conservation centre and it is dark behind there anyway.

Regards,

kev35

I don’t need to discuss it. Frank and crazymainer are doing quite well on their own.

As to the topic, I do not see that the excuse that the Government is multi-layered is a valid one. The whole point being that the response needed should have been an immediate response. This was not the case. Also, the fact that the levees did not burst until after the worst of the storm had passed is still not valid as an excuse. The response to either the storm or the flood was, as previously stated, far too little and far too late.

As stated before, help should be accepted from whatever source. It is easy for Mr. Rohr to say from the safety of Maine that no help is required. He is not on the ground in New Orleans and he cannot dispute the situation in New Orleans is desperate. There is still a breakdown in Law and Order, bodies are floating in the streets and rotting in buildings and there are hundreds of thousands of displaced persons.

If it was just a matter of throwing dollars (estimated to be a minimum of 10.5 Bn Dollars) at the problem, how then can the Federal Government justify the failure to invest 25 million dollars towards ensuring the security of the levees? A case of penny rich and dollar poor? Not to mention the death toll.

It is a tragedy of the highest magnitude, my heart goes out to all affected, but there has to be an accounting.

It will be interesting to see who the Administration blame.

Civilised, eh Frank?:)

Regards,

kev35

Apparently, the fabled Mr. rohr has been unable to keep his mouth closed and brain engaged and thus resorted to the usual response of those with little intellect, the personal attack.

I did not see your latest petulant outburst, but then again I don’t need to. It would be the usuals verbose angst you normally trip out on these occasions.

IU was most heartened to see the progress made by rescuers and that the situation is gradually coming back under some sort of control. Perhaps the physical damage to some parts of New Orleans is not as bad as first feared.

I do find it odd that the leader of the Government can put himself in charge of an investigation into whether or not HIS Government failed in their duty to the people of those states affected by Hurricane Katrina. It’s like a sinister version of poacher turned gamekeeper.

Over to you Mr. Rohr. I await with amusement your next missive.

Regards,

kev35

Dear Mr. Rohr.

To echo Ashley’s sentiments, what an ungrateful wretch you are. The people needing the help wouldn’t turn it away but you are very safe where you are, and, undoubtedly, a dollar in a jar eases your conscience over the way you have reacted.

This is the biggest failure ever by a first world country to respond to a disaster on their own soil. Yes, it is overwhelmingly easy for a Country like America to mobilise help when it chooses to. I expect there was some misunderstanding between what was required in terms of immediate help and what the Government thought/was told were required. Either way, the people in the states affected were let down terribly by those they elected to protect them.

Regards,

kev35

And to all of us.

This is not a thread asking who made the most contribution or who was brave / braver / bravest. It’s a light-hearted, ‘stick up for your favourite allied fighter pilot’ thread.

You trying for a place on the next series of Grumpy Old Men? I think Mike J has already bagged that :p

Moggy 🙂

How dare you? I am far grumpier than Mike J!

If it’s just stick up for you favourite fighter pilot I’ll go for Brian Lane, 19 Squadron and the anonymous Spitfire pilot who shot nothing down and didn’t get shot down himself. Accordingly, he called his war a “no score draw.”

Regards,

kev35

Moggy. (Pedantic mode on.)

‘One Allied pilot to fly combat during the Battle of Britain.’

Any of the RAF’s Bomber pilots spending every night attacking the invasion ports, the German oil industry, bombing forests and troop and transport concentrations on the way to the invasion ports.

Or any ATA pilot delivering Spitfires and Hurricanes to Operational Squadrons thereby relieving the RAF of the task and allowing those RAF pilots previously detailed to ferrying to go on operations.

No-one specified it HAD to be Fighter Command….

Regards,

kev35