At the risk of sounding patronizing, I would suggest that you get advice from the medical profession rather than an internet aviation forum. It’s probably nothing to worry about but worth getting checked out I would say.

(I can’t get that link to work.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12206044

Apologies. You’ve linked the same item anyway.

A few photos taken on Friday afternoon.

PA2 ZJ518

Pa1 ZJ516

The furthest away one is ZJ517 formerly PA3 now PA13? The closest, I’m not sure.

I’m not sure where PA5 ended up.

I find myself in a bit of turmoil over this. I’ve worked at Woodford for over 20 years and to see it in the state it’s in now is heartbreaking. I drove to work on Friday past empty car parks. Never seen that before.
Having said that, I worked on MRA4 from 2003 to 2007 and to be honest, it was the worst project I ever worked on. It was poorly run and it staggered from one crisis to another. Some of the stories I could tell would be scarcely believable. Latterly though, many of the issues were worked through and although I believe it still had some issues, it was very close to being ready. From what I can gather, the RAF guys that were involved were enthusiatic about the aircraft and couldn’t wait to see it in service.

What makes me sad is not that the airframes will be broken into pieces without any substantial parts being saved, but that they are being broken up at all. A project that was within a few weeks of being ready for service being cancelled is, in my opinion, a worse crime than the cancellation of TSR2.

The other thing about flying under B conditions I think you will find the hours flown do not count, I know of one USA built exec jet that was flown by the company under B conditions for a year doing trial work before being sold, its hours started from when it was registered.

We certainly didn’t adhere to those conditions. Accurate engine and aircraft logbooks were always kept. All the test aircraft I flew in had proper airframe logbooks. They may have had “proper” G- regs but they were flying under “B” conditions.

As far as “B” class regs, they were required to be displayed in the appropriate places, under the wing, on the fuselage sides and the interior identity placard. The exterior serials didn’t always last the flight though! I once took off in a 125 with G-5-657 on the fin and landed with VP-B something after the sticky plastic flew off.

Of course people moan about price rises; their wages aren’t rising to keep up; whether they smoke, drink or not. It’s all very well saying they have to budget or “cut their cloth” or whatever but that is becoming increasingly difficult when people are losing their jobs and those in work are finding that wage freezes are the norm.
Yes, some may have to go without a new TV but they’ll find it difficult to go anywhere without fuel and increased fuel prices mean increases in ALL prices which becomes inflationary etc. etc… and so on.

George Osborne has said that the 20% rate is permanent as far as he is concerned. I gues he’ll need the revenue to pay for tax cuts just before the next election.

Now where do I start? I’ll get back to you on that one as soon as I figure out which of their weird ideas is the worst in terms of its effect on aviation safety.

Oh OK. I look forward to reading those.