The other thing posted is why did we not buy American instead, well if you go down that route, you lose the skills, designers and engineers to produce a home grown item in the future and suddenly become reliant on buying everything from other countries in the future as you have burnt your bridges, again not a good state of play to be in.

Well, they kept their jobs for a few more years, but they too will be gone now…

What is it with the Tory Party and Nimrod debacles???

As somebody who works at sea, I don’t feel that safe now, as they plan to severely cut back on Coastguard cover too, with only about 8 stations in the UK remaining 24 hrs. Add to the fact that they are cutting back on the CG coastguard chopper cover, it is all going to add up to a farce. Accidents don’t only happen during daylight….

Discovery Turbo had the Classic British Aircraft episode covering the Canberra and Nimrod, in which it states that a Nimrod can get to the furthest reaches of the UK SAR region in 4 hrs – would love to see a Herc do that, or loiter during an extended SAR mission. God forbid another Piper Alpha where Nimrod was pivotal to the SAR carried out then.

I get the feeling the Government have bitten more than they can chew, and will come to deeply regret this decision. Why waste the billions developing the MRA4 by not using it? Better than having to pay 200million to scrap them…:mad:

Pensacola Museum

I was there in 1998 while on a weekend off from a course I was doing in Morgan City, LA. It was well worth the journey. The guy that took me had been the crew chief of the Bell Huey Cobra that hangs just inside the first display hall.

Unfortunately I did not have a digital camera at the time, only a point and shoot 35mm, if I can, I will look back and see if I can scan in some images – some of the stuff there was amazing, and I thoroughly recommend anybody who can to go and see it…

Scotty

Possibly off on a whimsical tangent here, but what I find frustrating is that there are marvelous airfields like abandoned (by the services) and complete and looked after time-warp Upper Heyford with listed and protected buildings, in theory nothing can happen to some of these empty structures of which some areas are lying idle and empty. Imagine if the site got together with a major aircraft collection, both parties gain by in theory very low rent and being attractive to both airfield and aircraft enthusiasts, thus improving the income and protection of the site and collection.

Good idea….. what’s the point of listing a building only to not use it? It will require maintanence to the fabric which has no sense if the building is not occupied, as it will only deteriorate again. Might as well use them…

Now the Nimrod MR.4 is cancelled…

…. I take it Woodford will be winding down now, and with it will this accelarate the demise of XM603?

Anybody know any more?

Kind regards,
Scotty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11570593

The real cost 37,000 job losses 😡

Oh and the benefit system won’t help them, never mind the private sector will pick up all the slack.

Will be a lot more than that, especially if Lossie gets the bullet as well….

The three towns nearest the bases, Elgin, Forres and Lossiemouth heavily rely on the trade from base personnel. Add to the fact that quite a lot of the partners from the base personnel work in the local health service and council. Take them away and it totally devastates the area, not just for trade, but infrastructure.

I don’t know Cottesmore’s situation, but I’d imagine it won’t be too different.

For North East Scotland, there’s about another 7,500 job losses in non base personnel if both Lossie and Kinloss go, as well as a devastated local community structure. There’s very little else up there regards industry apart from whiskey, farming and fishing, none of which requires loads of people…

I can see this defence review being regretted in the future… What happens should the Falklands flare up again?? With a couple of the companies drilling down there hitting successful wells, and Argentina getting the support of other Latin American countries over the ‘theft’ of their natural resources, it might not be as far-fetched as you think….

Last one out switch off the lights…. 😡

You know that “joke” is only funny about the first 4000 times you hear it.
Call me touchy if you will, but does it really need to be added to every single thread on the forum?

Don’t see why not…..

Have a nice day!

Scotty

VM325 is at Carew Cheriton, and I think that would be the best bet…

There’s already a thread about this aircraft here:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103875&highlight=VM325

Cockpit is starting to look cracking already Tony – hard to believe how quickly she is starting to look good….

Kind Regards,
Scotty