Dont worry too much about the Italian stuff..It’ll spend more time on a low loader or stuck on a ramp at the dealers .Lots of technicians staring at a diagnostic computer screen wondering why the air con doesnt work , the windows wont wind up & its only firing on 5 cylinders .

Ve have vays of making you pay ….Tommy! for you ze flight is over !!

And the fathers names are ……..( Big Drum roll…….)

There was an old lady who lived in a Shoe …
etc …etc …

” Now hear this !!—We dive at dawn “……

I give up !! Unless they are alll Hawker Hunter clones ????

So Camp Bastion is as big as Reading is it ??? Reading has a population of 150.000 ( 270,000 Urban Borough ) . If that is the case I take it there are at least 25,000 troops Patrolling the perimiter .

& as stated prev. I take it all Aircraft are on bomb proof sheltered Hardstandings ?????

Even sandbag anti blast pens would be something ……..

The Buzzword in Industry /Commerce /Employment these days is ” We need to do a risk assessment ” —well –did they???

BB …Forgot I had this .

Just messing about in spare room , looking for plastic kit I hadnt built & forgot I had this . Probably 70 yrs old , bit of WW2 utility . Very thin copper style alloy , mounted on cardboard .

Strange I should re-discover it & give it a dust down today !!

Why so long !!!!