25000€ for your Uncle, your daughter or your own mother, Germanwing Said

Some of the close relatives of those killed in the Germanwings plane crash in March have rejected the carrier’s offer of 25,000 euros ($27,000) in compensation payments for their pain and suffering.
[…]
The 25,000-euro offer is on top of 50,000 euros already paid as immediate financial assistance to relatives. German law does not usually provide for a separate award for pain and suffering
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Relatives living in Germany may also claim an additional 10,000 euros each as compensation for any health problems without needing to offer formal proof, the company said.

The grotesque has reached no end.

Source:
reuters.com

The LEVCON’s antennaes might not be there for signal sensing (see Typhoon and older post of mine).

Dutch Investigation Board: Sources say MH17 report blames Russian missile

According to the source, the report says it was a Buk missile — a Russian surface-to-air missile — that was used, launched from a village in Russian rebel controlled territory.
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Report’s details […] gives a minute by minute timeline of flight MH17. This source also says not only does the draft report pinpoint where the missile was fired from it identifies who was in control of the territory and pins the downing of MH17 on the pro-Russian rebels.

Impact:
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Post impact fall-out:
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Source:
Cnn.com

It is high subsonic, NG made a book where they discuss it.

http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/B2SpiritBomber/SpiritOfInnovationBook/Pages/default.aspx

It is supposed to go near supersonic at sealevel but never above mach 1.

I had to read once again the doc and confirm that we still can’t rule out this hypothesis.

But it does not mean that it is true.

High subsonic is general in the 0.9 range. Geometry and law of physics can’t aniliate any doubts.

EDAxit for the “European” MALE UAV:

France, Germany, and Italy are keeping the European Defence Agency (EDA) well away from their collaborative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programme, despite it originally being touted in 2013 as an “EU flagship project”, according to EU and industry observers.

…And

“Each of the three main companies that would work on the MALE [Airbus, Dassault, and Alenia Aermacchi] has its own idea about the engine, for example. You need to get them together, but the EDA has had a difficult task doing this. The companies don’t want to address this topic with us,” the official said.

Source:
Janes.com

[…]but holly riveting batman;

The guy that sale those rivets might count Su35 in his dreams. Impressive how close to each other they are.

Eagle eyed you are, it is not like it is part of the modification…

Here is the picture in higher res, it was available at higher res at the start but not anymore.

here is one as sexy (but much older):

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Edit:
I guess that makes now Mbb and BAE ready to work together on a new aero engine.

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And the new paneling at the wing root? 😉
Notice also the same material usage (strake/Wedge).

But I am sure that we will hear soon in the press that those are sign of of fantastic increase in RCS…

EDIT:
Just noticed the wedged trailing edges. Yum, that Typhoon rocks!