They are displaying routes and directions. This is valuable and a great effort at the attention of the public.

@PeeD: Regarding the engine model:
Don’t forget the starter generator where the air is sourced:
– lot of heat that is better routed away before the high pressure compressor (I see this as an innovation not seen before). The air is sucked by the pressure diff at the eng outlet (speed diff in fact).
– what is funny is that you could play with shock compression
– what is funny is that you could use this as a better way to get your stream neutral (if charged obviously).

sometime you can see this but most of the time safety regulations rule it out (for the good 😉 ). There is no saying that most that F-22 and 35s display at airshow can be matched by their Russian counterpart, if ever someone has to write it down…

It is out of Catia but not modeled under Catia (from sketches).

The most important is that it pulls the Brit industry (and their EU partner) out of the ever lasting marrasm of never doing something that has to be fielded. Systems need an airframe and a user to get funded.
It might not fly at Mach 3 but it very we’ll be at last airborne for real in 10 years

Air Marshal Leo Davies [RAAF] is quoted as saying [F-35] will “replace nothing, because they change everything”.

This had to be emphasized. A transformational aircraft for the complex battle ground of modern war situations.

Corsair: it was specified in the RFP and underlined here that the concept of operation is compatible with the off-line optional mode of ALIS. One again, it his annoying that we have to re-write the same points when the old threa is not gone!

For the maintenance issue, please remind that this is a factor of cost ( low cost – how awkward?). If Swiss want to be fully autonomous… Yes they can!

20 something Typhoon in the Falklands?! Isn’t that too much? Are the UK planning to annex Buenos Aires and Santiago to make for the Brexit? 😉