In the above shot, what is Rooney doing to Ronaldo 😀

Hopefully doing what Vinny Jones did to Paul Gascoine :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:

17,000lbs+ is hardly what you’d consider limited.

As Edlaw quoted, Limited load when in best configuration for penetration, However most combat aircraft in normal operational configuration are limited in weapon load as they cannot manoeuvre with a massive amount of ordnance hanging underneath. If you want a stealth aircraft to orbit about with a large weapons payload to hit unplanned targets, then you will have to use a B-2. If you don’t have B-2s then best you be very friendly with the USAF. 😉

I prefer the twin turbojet supercruise one –

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/index.html

sounds much better 😀

What??? the one that had to wait for the Victor to get level with the Humber before launch on Binbrook QRA and it leaked fuel like anything. Yes the Lightning could supersonic without reheat, but the very limited range of the aircraft could hardly be called Supercrusie. I like the Lightning, but it was a very limited aircraft in a lot of respects (Like range , armament, very heavy pilot workload, limited radar, etc, etc), hum, just like some of the problems that they will have with the F-35 (ie limited weapon load).

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Well I was right…

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Yep 😀 😀 😀

Guess we’d wait for the storms to show up to clean up the atmosphere a la “Day After Tomorrow”….

Had them in the UK Midlands on Tuseday. Flooding killed my car.

US TBF-1B Avenger = UK Tarpon
US Wildcat = UK Martlet, Martlet II
UK Merlin = Canada Cormorant

Lightning works well enough for me.

Grumman Types in FAA service were later renamed to the USN names for inter service interoperability when British Carriers joined the US Pacific CVBGs in 1944/45.

Lightning meets the RAF criteria for the naming of Fighter-Bomber type aircraft and the Export BAC Lightning’s could carry bombs, hence it does have a link with the role of the JCA if and when we get it.

As for the name to the role, there have been a number of aircraft that have shared its name with another type but not its role.

Classics are

Bristol Bulldog – Fighter, SA Bulldog – Trainer

Hawker Nimrod – Naval Fighter, Hawker Siddley Nimrod – MR aircraft

Westland Whirlwind – Fighter, Westland Whirlwind – Helicopter

Hence there is no relevance of name to type in regards to the aircraft’s operational role.

Lots of Icons, no room for anthing else.

How can I be expected to take this forum seriously when people write things like “America practically owns England?” its actually almost the other way round. We just need to undeclare your independance and we’ll be laughing.

Who is this idiot??????