Thats the baby! With some ‘tweaking’ with the fuselage, IMO this design could be a re brand just as is, or that tail logo could form part of an otherwise fresh livery. I like it, a cool mix of national identity and modernism. Would certainly stand out on a crowded apron.

Is this not a logo from the British Olympic Association? British Airways would presumably not be allowed to use it without the BOA’s permission. I am not sure if the BOA would authorise its use beyond special promotional use around the olympics.

I always liked the Chelsea Rose design quite a lot. Maybe they can go for that one.

Yours are Megabits/second but mine is measly Kilobits 🙁

I would imagine that the Netherlands would generally have a better connection then Lagos. But it also helps that I am at the beginning of the street just metres away from the cable-hub that feeds my cityblock. Would not surprise me if I have the best connection in my block purely due to proximity.

Download 64,55 Mb/s
Upload 9.04 Mb/s
PING 15 ms

http://www.speedtest.net/
I got 2.00, 0.18Mbps, 115Mbps.
Doesn’t look as good as yours, but then I don’t know what it means!:o

Actually, yours is quite a bit better then 27vet’s. The first is the download speed, how much you can download per minute. The second the upload, how much you can send per minute. The higher the better. The last one measures the time it takes for data to be transferred. Anyway, the lower the better.

48 minutes by train to Lelystad Centrum. Then 11 minutes by bus, line 148 to Harderwijk. When you take the intercity train you will have 8 minutes to get to the bus.

Here’s a link to a journey planner with all public transport in the Netherlands: http://journeyplanner.9292.nl/.

Small video of the Holland class patrol vessel undergoing sea trials.

http://www.defensie.nl/marine/actueel/nieuws/2011/04/06/46180608/Holland_onderworpen_aan_beproevingen_video

The plans for budget cuts at the MoD have been announced. A total of 10.000 people will be made redundant in a bid to save a billion euro. This will mean that the armed forces are no longer capable of long term missions like Uruzgan. Instead they will be forced to perform smaller missions, such as the current missions to enforce the no-fly zone near Libya and the anti-piracy missions near Africa.

The navy will scrap four of ten minehunters. The airforce will loose all their Cougar helicopters and some F-16s. The army will loose all their tanks.

EDITED TO ADD 08APR:
As already rumoured earlier, of the four OPV’s under construction two of them will be put up for sale immediately upon delivery. Oman is rumoured to be interested in them, and that this is also (part of) the reason for the state visit of queen Beatrix to Oman a few weeks ago.

Interesting development on the AN-12. The IVW (Inspectie Verkeer & Waterstaat, the Dutch aviation autorities) have grounded the antonov. The reasons provided by the IVW include:

http://luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nl-NL/Article.cms/Airlines/IVW_legt_Armeense_Antonov_An-12_op_Schiphol_aan_de_ketting

I’m not sure that’s even legal!

I’m not sure. It’s a tax, and those can be specified. It’s quite common for a invoice to have a seperate line for VAT.

To take another example from trucking: companies can charge road tolls (e.g. London congestion zone surcharge, the German Maut surcharge) seperately from their tariffs. But I get no or at best limited choice whether I want the truck to avoid the LCZ or the German Autobahn.