excellent find mate! most envious!interesting what you can get at places you wouldn’t expect. I myself found a de-activated 37mm AA round for 3 bucks!

Much loved and missed. Newsreaders even expressed there sadness at the type retiring!:eek:

where one for the RAAF heritage flight:D

well i’d hardly expect them to say otherwise:rolleyes:

I think its good for him to be in custody- If not, i dont see him seeing December next year- I mean the CIA does almost what it wants, and with a large section of the US happy to see him dead, something could happen.

But on what hes doing, He should be charged with assisting with treason in the US- he could have gone to the US and handed back the documents, publishing them leaves him guilty of assisting in treason.also possibly extortion(if something happens to me I’ll release more)

The 4 being looked after at the moment are the best players of the fleet, and include 2 RF-models, for contingeny activation upto july 2011, and as this is unlikely to be needed, it leaves it open for 1 or 2 too make it to Avalon.(provided it can be done for minimal cost)

No NO NO! todays test result was great planning- lull your enemy with a false sense of security, then hit him hard(I hope)!

I’m sure if we asked and desperately needed it Ark Royal cold be in service by Q32011. use it for three years and park it. I would not be surprised to find we could get a 1/3 of the crew from England with sponsored immigration, and a promise of less news about the Beckhams!

I’m not trying to scrap our future plans- It will benefit me awesomely! we digs could use some brand spankin luxury transport! But in all seriousness the costs to get the old girls right is starting to sound like it should be paid in zimbabwe dollars!

In Theory our water and rations should last 7-10 days, in practice water lasts about 4-5(hence my reference to 5 days). but we are looking at a bad capbility gap unless the problem solved.

and longterm we really should order another LHD, and 1-2 Bay style vessels (if our current operational tempos are maintained, which in all likeliness, they will!)

Chinooks and Ark royal better than nothing, especially in case of delays with our LHDs

The only way forward with this is that the F-35B order would be cancelled by some countries, based on different needs or cost cutting or going to CATOBAR ops, like the UK