The only problem with the jsf is that it absorbs european money but does not bring any valuable technology to the european aerospace industry because all the interesting workshare goes to american subcontractors.

Some will say that this is logical because the americans pay 90% of the development bill. yes, that’s right… the european should not have believed all the promises they were told, they should have realised that they would get nothing but ridiculous workshare and they should have invested their money in an european project.

The only EU partner who is going to get “limited” technological feedback from the jsf is the UK… but at a quite heavy price : they can’t participate to any european stealth project, and they are dependant of the american good will to share their advance technology with them.

Arthur,

You talk like a tourist who spent a day on an overcrowed beach with only red fat german girl to look at 😀

Next time, you will know that there is a nice little beach with nobody but beautifull girls in bikini next to the overcrowded beach.

If you can’t get a pass for the professional days (which are very calm with about 100 times less people), you can still enter the huge parking area south of the airfield. There, you can go very very close to the runway and see all the flying aircrafts taxing and making their demo in far better conditions than in the airfield itself. And you know what ? all this for free 🙂

the best pictures you can see on airliners.net are taken from this area (Dugny) 😉

like this one for exemple : http://www.airliners.net/open.file/862878/L/

Hello Steph !
Nice to see you here 🙂

I don’t know.

I think they have just replaced the black radome of the 80ies by a radome that matches the airplane camo :

light grey for the bleu/grey camo
green for the grey/green camo

edit : On a second thought, it seems more complicated than that : the 10 new built mirage 2000H delivered this year also has a black radome 😀
may be the air forces choose their radome color as you choose your car color 🙂

The US simply said “you can’t land at this military base because you haven’t got permission but here’s a civilian airport you can land at”.

that sounds reasonable.

However, this procedure seems odd when you have 10 foreign military aircrafts in your airspace asking for an emergy landing. I mean this is quite unespected that the USAF chose to disturb the trafic of a commercial airport instead of taking those planes in charge.

BTW, they are not very clear about what happened exactly and why.

from GARE DU NORD station in PARIS and then it’s 30 minutes

RER B : gare du nord – le bourget –> 11 min 🙂

Is the version on offer M2K5mk2 or M2K9 (like the UAE’s)

The mirage 2000-9 is a special version only for the UAE. The mirage 2000-5 mk2 is the same without the special features asked by the UAE (specific UAE weapons integration, IMEWS instead of ICMS mk3 ECM suite..)

But India could ask Dassault to name their mirage : mirage 2000-10 if they want 🙂