They have a Boulton Paul Defiant Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Have you been Touched by His Noodly Appendage?

Seriously, I believe it stands for “Full Scale Model”.

On the grounds that:

‘Best described as a ‘new build’ – If Boulton Paul built them from wood and skinned them in aluminium well yes !! But they didn’t

‘When this Defiant was built by the Boulton Paul Association it doubled the worlds population and is the only one in day-fighting colours.’ -no it didn’t !

There is still one genuine machine and this machine which I guess constitutes a narrow line between a FSM and a reproduction!

I wish they wouldn’t get so carried away and just stick with the facts instead !

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?132026-Kent-Battle-of-Britain-Museum-acquire-the-BPA-Defiant

Report: Japan Wants Its Own Early-Warning Planes

The Kawasaki P-1 should be a good base airframe to replace Japan’s 4 E-767 and 13 E-2C.

Same with the Navy, one should have asked what the LCS would be good for?

The USN knows what LCS is good for – exactly what they designed it to be good for.
And one thing that is NOT is being a conventional frigate.

Of course, some people (like the one I am replying to) refuse to accept the USN’s intended use/missions for LCS and incorrectly claim that it has no mission, etc.

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Spare parts, training and support equipment are included in the sale. So no, the unit cost of a UH-60M isnt $50m… Its flyaway cost is closer to $18m.

Brazil have operated Blackhawks and most of the required infrastructure and/or support equipment is already at hand.

And your point is ?

A UH-60M just doesnt cost “$50m” or even half that price.

The UH-60M has different avionics (including “glass cockpit” and computer to run all systems, “fly-by-wire” systems, etc) from the models Brazil operates, different model engines & a different gearbox, thus requiring a certain amount of different parts, support equipment, and training for the operators/maintainers.

… also from ‘yexu’:

The accidents actually happened in the 1990’s.

From former test pilot Xu Yongling, the two test pilots died three years ago, had nothing to do with the carrier. Probably test flying the J11BS?

Deino

So the two pilots died in 2011.

Or in the 1990s.

Pretty specific there >sarcasm<.

Looks like just more rumors.

Possibly because that early in the flight a heavy aircraft would not have the performance (rate of climb) to out climb terrain. I’m assuming a maximum fuel load plus passengers giving a low RoC and the pilot not being sure of the exact location of terrain so trying to remain visual with the ground rather than fly into the cloud with a low RoC.

Other variations are that the pilot might have been trying to remain clear of the cloud by maintaining a set altitude above ground, resulting in aircraft climbing gradually into cloud OR he could fly a set altitude and the base of the cloud could have lowered and they flew into it.

Same result- sharing a cloud with the ground.

I can only guess that the pilot was trying to stay visual with the terrain.

Which would almost certainly eventually result in having to try to out-climb terrain – and with much shorter notice than they had earlier.