If you have the recovered tyre is the damage to the tyre consistent with a blow out or crash?

Still no action against Syria. Seems the west can’t be arsed after all.

No offence intended…..but isn’t that the definition of ‘trigger-happy’?

Trigger happy is firing willy nilly. The Navy were ordered to fire regardless of identification. That’s different.
Aircraft should stay away.

Cars are becoming more reliable and less throw away in my experience.
My Ford Sierra with 80k on the clock was burning a litre of oil every 10’000 miles, made smoke and had lots of rust after 8 years.
My Mondeo doesn’t burn any oil, has no rust and very few faults after 150’000 miles and 15 years.
I had a brand new Audi A3 which burnt a liter of oil every 10’000 miles. Not wear and tear, something to do with synthetic oils?

As to changing the spare. I do that on all cars I own just to see how it works, where the jack is and to find those pesky hidden jacking points!
The bonnet release is another hidden feature on the Audi.

I was very hands on as a kid. Built model planes. Made an aerial for my CB radio. Could wire a plug. Was taught wood and metal working in school.
At 14 I got my first computer and learned to program. At 20 I could service, do the brakes and change the wheels on my car.
The thing is it’s the computing skills, the playing computer games, the learning to program that has given me a career for the past 30 years.

I don’t think kids being totally engrossed in mobile technology, social media, the internet is a bad thing, in fact it’s a must have skill-set.
The problem is it’s not channeled into anything practical.
I got a `learn to program` book with my computer. It inspired me to learn to write my own games.
A games console does not, although the driver was the same, to play games.

Modern technology doesn’t have the same `learn to do it` inspirational hooks that makes them think “I wonder how that works”.
That goes for cars too. Have you looked under the bonnet of the modern family car lately? Ford Zephyr it aint!

No one has acted militarily yet. Seems to be a definite lack of enthusiasm for the war. Perhaps because the Sirians were celebrating the downing of the twin towers? Still trying to work out if they are friend or foe.

The Royal Navy were not trigger happy. They would fire on any aircraft that approached them in a menacing fashion. Normally this would equate to any aircraft in range. My father were a grue operator on HMS Anson and was ordered to target any aircraft within range. A ship is a far more valuable and vulnerable asset.

I would also like to challenge these bands being used for identification. Surely if you can see the band you are close enough to I’d the aircraft? More importantly you have probably already fired at the aircraft long before. Sounds to me more like an admin function. To be able to I’d the aircraft if crashed, or when sending the aircraft for repair? Most B17 crew could not tell the difference between a P47 and a FW190 let alone the shape and colour. In combat everything looks hostile.