Precisely, and I work for the MoD through a contractor, forgot to mention I have to travel 50 miles a day aswel.
That is my choice though and I love my work (and I certainly wouldn’t say I should be on near what teachers deserve), but some of these public sector workers really must try understanding the reality of what some others have to go through.
Imagine what it is like for the workers at lower levels, the slaughterhouse workers, cabbage pickers, office cleaners etc.

I hate to say this, and I don’t like his presentation style, but tornado64 is right in a lot of what he says here.

£30.000, to live on 😮 if they can’t manage to live on that, they ought to try and live on the average State Pension.

Which is about £23,000 after tax/NIC. Presumably you are not suggesting that someone of, say, 30 fully qualified, with a family and a house should be paid no more than a pensioner, albeit with two pensions?

Which is £12,000 more than I took home as a manager without a pension last tax year, and this tax year should £10,000 diference but I have to cope with a £1700 tax demand aswel!
Can you see why some of us are wondering what the whingeing is all about.

I’ve just been listening to the news on the radio about the demo scenes in London described as ‘carnival atmosphere’ and ‘people hugging and kissing in the street’, I’m glad they are enjoying their day off

Yes it’s from the engine cowlings David, it’s an underside acces panel described as ’10-20 EC437A access, port, assembly’ which seems to fit the right hand access door for the hydraulic trough. Drawing is identical to your part aswel.
When you view the underside of a Vixen it is just aft of the wing trailing edge.

A lot of parts like this item are common to both marks and they will both use ’20’, FAW.2 specific parts use ’22’, and it is from a later (XP918 on) Chester built machine.
All FAW.1s were built at Christchurch, the FAW.2 conversions on the line were initiated there and moved to Chester where the new build FAW.2s were built.

It’s no good bringing the Labour vs Tory argument into this, they both agree that this strike action is wrong as negotiations are still underway and that the pensions system has to change.
in fact a Union leader this morning admitted that they need to accept that the pensions scheme will have to be downgraded.
Goes back to my earlier comment that Unions just enjoy a good scrap for scrapping sake.

ATR42, you’re living in a dream world if you think people will leave the cosyness of CS for PS, and there arn’t any high wages where I’m stood.

I like the stewardess – the one by the entrance door!:)
she must be knocking on a bit by now though.

we don’t seem to get much trouble from colder Countries

Like The Falklands, Russia, and Iceland!

I forgot about your PM Jim, but pretty well covered it in my earlier posts!

Interestingly, on a ratio of aircrew to bombs carried, the most efficient bomber of the war was the Mosquito; two tons of bombs, two crew. Which makes the B29 – average bomb load, six tons; eleven or twelve crew; inefficient.

But incredibly effective, especially in the fire bombing and A bomb missions – and that’s what counted.
Counting which type of bombers dropped which amounts of bombs doesn’t always work out, for example the B-29 didn’t enter service until 1944 so it could be said to have achieved a huge amount in the year plus that it saw of WWII.
I guess it’s ironic that the Superfort saw about its own downfall glory wise, it ended a war which if it went on longer would have proved how good it really was.

(sorry I called it the Type L. There was a Type L with the cannon projecting on each side of the nose, but that did not go into production).

Ah excellent, so that was the nose turret (or barbettes for want of a better word) that was intended for Shackleton MR.1s?
Only fitted to the first two prototypes, always thought the set up looked quite mean.