Oh dear. Ewan Hoozarmy, I don’t think that my local NHS Trust will pay for the tablets (I do hope satire is allowed here). On the plus side, thanks for telling me what it is, but the downside is I can’t spend the rest of the day gloating to my friends that I’ve seen a Spitfire.

You can now…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWrYogVmPzU

Kinda ;D

TSR2, what if?

If the TSR2 had entered service in the RAF how would that have changed things?
Looking at the stats for the TSR2 compared to the V bombers on Wiki the only bomber the TSR2 is comparable with is the Vulcan (similer payload but half the range). Would this have meant the Vulcan would have been retired from service sooner and not have been used in the Black Buck mission in 1982?
Would aircraft like the Buccaneer have been required in RAF service or would it have remained only in service with the Navy?

Does Middle Wallop count as there is RAF personnel based there, I’m not sure if the RAF ensign is one of the flags flown at the enterance?

Top secret aircraft exist at, amongst others I suspect, Groom Lake in the US but as for where they are stored/tested in this country I really don’t know.

20 years ago I know most (all?) testing was done at A&AEE Boscombe Down but in recent years the Southampton UAS has moved in, in ’98 there was a one off Concorde flight from there and there is even talk of it becoming an airport!

Whereabouts now do they test UK aircraft from as I can’t imagine them flying many top secret prototypes from Boscombe any more!!!

Why does everybody automatically asume that Russia would have started WW3 with an invasion of Europe, surely they could have acheived more by invading Alaska?

From the Western most point of Alaska to the Canadian border is only 770 miles, to the US border only 2000 miles and to Washington DC 4100 miles.

I would have thought landing on Americas doorstep having to contend with the Canadian Army to have provided much more of a morale boost to Soviet troops than having to battle through Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany before encountering any American troops.

My wife has bought me for Christmas a year’s subscription of “Pilot” magazine. It is a good read and i cannot grumble.

Definatly a good present, especially after seeing WP840 gracing its pages last month! 😀

Darn beat me to it, J!

Next one then. Did Bader get abducted by aliens? 😉

Nope, he drove that double decker bus to the moon!

I thought everyone knew that…. :p

I think I might have found the perfect thanks we can give the cnuts who thought this was the best way to while away the time…