SABR, SAR and the joint BLUH/SCMR of course :p

More on SABR here (AgustaWestland & Boeing joint bid)

Steve ~ Touchdown-News

Does Halmstad also still have the former Dutch Navy Bell 204? It used to be there in the early 1990s, still painted in full Marineluchtvaartdienst-colours (they were retired in 1974). Haven’t heard much about it later, although there was a lot of talk going on getting it back to the Netherlands.

Art, I saw it there in 2001…sat outside the hangar that the museum uses as a workshop/restoration area, but I think it’s used as a GIA.

In fact I saw three ex-MLD 204s on that short weekend trip (we did the open days at Laage and Uppsala in one weekend: 3,000 miles in an LDV!) as there was one each at Vasteras and Skavsta. I think the Skavsta one has come back home for the Soesterberg museum.

Anybody interested in this thread may also want to check out some details on future Swedish air defence plans posted by Lars Hammarberg just yesterday.

Best regards

Steve ~ Touchdown-News

Something you could forward to me, as well? 🙂

No problem, Flex, although you may have been aware of some of this already as it involves Slovakia and the Czech Republic:

Slovak MiG-21s Sold to Angola?

Kyrgyz Mi-24 Supplied to Liberia via Slovakia

Twelve Czech Su-25K Sold to Georgia

The Touchdown-News archive (25,000 messages now!) is set for non-members to read at the moment so there’s no registration required: just click on the hyerlinks to access. Maybe you can add some more info, Flex, if you’ve read anything in Slovak concerning the pieces.

Best regards

Steve ~ Touchdown-News

Steve…

Su-15TM = Su-21 🙂

Flex

Flex,

every serious site I’ve checked says something along these lines:

The other production version was the Flagon-D which was simply a Flagon-A with a longer fuselage, the new wing design, and the larger ailerons.*This Su-15 variant and all Flagon’s that followed were often referred to as Su-21’s by NATO observers who did not know its true bureau designation.*Su-21 was never a Sukhoi bureau designation for the ‘Flagon’.

So it’s not me you need to persuade, but about 1,000,000 Soviet aircraft enthusiasts! 😀 😀

I’m sure Art and/or Ken can tell us more. To be honest I had never even seen or heard of the “Su-21” before your post today…that’s how little I know about Flagons (except for the kind with beer in)! 😀

Steve

Saw the Chillis in a great little club in Tijuana in either late ’89 or early ’90…forget which. Was a cool place for a gig so went several times during my So Cal sabbatical. Even saw The Mission supported by the Wonderstuff there. A run-down little dive in Mexico full of Brummie accents that night…most surreal

Agree about Sven: we could do better with the players available.

Scholes wide left is a waste of time. All the best sides, club and country, have balance. Push Ashley Cole into left midfield and play Wayne Bridge at left back (he’s a better defender in any case). Look how many times Gallas was able to overlap down that flank for France.

Scholes should be competing with Owen and Rooney for the places up-front. Scholes’ best role isn’t much different from how Rooney played last night, ie linking midfield with Owen.

The substitutions were almost as bad as Ranieri’s baffling changes in Monaco last month. Fine to withdraw Scholes (ineffective and anonymous) but replace him with Butt and flood midfield. Taking Rooney off was a joke. Yes, he started to look tired, but get the game WON then worry about the “next match”. Luxury substitutions are for when you’re 3-0 up and playing the opposition off the park, not when you’re clinging onto a 1-0 lead and taking a battering.

Heskey? He plays for Birmingham City as of next season. ‘Nuff said. 😀