Another one up on the auction site. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281181787448?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Fortunately being retired fuel consumption is not an issue. My Lexus Soarer 4ltr V8 does 13mpg in complete silence and extreme comfort(which is very important to my due to disability). I did 685 miles in it last year. Road tax is £250(pre 2000) and my insurance is £265.Where I win is depreciation will be nil. I paid £1000 for it as I think the fuel consumption plays a big part in this as it dropped to this figure from just shy of £50,000 since 1997. Nice Mr Toyota also galvanised the whole body shell so I am not expecting it to rust out and it has only 94k on the clock.

A question though.
If the majority of people who drive a lot go green with hybreds and electric cars and pay little or no road tax and buy less fuel, how is the government going to bleed the motorist, road pricing maybe?

Goverment say with old power stations being shut down and the stalling of new stations being built, power will be a problem with power cuts possible.
buy your electric cars and over load the poor electric system?,

to get the money back they will build new power stations and with smart meters in your house your electric car registered they will bump up the lecci bill
you will end up with no gain per mile then petrol.

Do like the hydrogen fuel cell idea, drive the car for little run in on water, when you are back home it runs your house also,
can really see the power companies pushing for these, guess they are buying up patents all the time to stop them.

Looking at diesels and petrol cars they have jumped massively into the 80mpg bracket and I should imagine a 100 mpg production car is just round the corner!
If I was spending the cash it would be on a 86 mpg Fiesta which you know is always going to have a good resale value!

Good choice always with a good Ford, with 86mpg on the new ones also if they last and cost little to keep on the road, We own a
1998 Fiesta and its done 160k, with very little problems, just the normal tyers brakes oil changes and a few new shocks on the front the normal gaiters and cheap
rubbers, a few exhausts, would say I have not spent no more then £1.500 on it all the years ,only changed the original battery last year. still looks nice with just a few bubble spots on the arches, drives good gearbox and clutch still feeling tight. tappets a bit rattly thou always been common on this engine. get about 45mpg, we have owned the car from new so been very good value.

I have heard that some of the fleet are going to be positioned nearer the centre of the UK for the airshow season to cut down on the transit legs. Would Coventry be a good guess?

Spot on, Coventry will be a central stop over. so cheaper transits too shows.

What will France be looking at after the Rafael, could we see something
better then JSF from France in say 5-10 years.?

The JSF was designed quiet a while ago now, play station 1, or windows 2000,era.
with technology way more advanced then that time, How will it compare today,

JSF being a techno gadget machine out of date,
Typhoon being a plug and play aircraft could be upgraded with new software and systems far greater then what JSF was billed 10 years ago.

Are we missing a point with this aircraft apart from its techno software that any 4th gen aircraft can have fitted, I guess if needed.

can it out-fly a 4th gen euro canard.
My modern mobile phone today probably as more tech then what the typhoon had when 1st designed.

So how out of date is JSF.

Yeah sure, the proud aeronautical industry that once produced legends like Spitfire, Lancaster, Hunter, Lighting, Harrier and countless more , reduced to a pithiful subcontractor for the americans, rear fuselages and some damn seats, sure, there’s some “meat ” there.

I’m sure the americans are congratulating themselves for eliminating the british (and most of Europe’ as well) aeronautical prowess, with the help of some spineless and traitorous politicians, starting with that Sandy guy…

Just how much work for ther UK does this give, BAE have plants in the USA dont they? also Martin Baker. guess if you break it all down its not much for the UK.

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ATR42

Many thanks for that offer. I haven’t been to Scarum for a week or so, so do not know the state of play with regard to further thefts. I’ll be there this week and will report any changes.

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Vulcan 558

Thank you for the link. Do you know if these motion sensor cameras are battery operated or, do they require an 240Ac supply ? I’m in the dark – so to speak, on these matters !

John Green

Certain they run on just a handful of batteries that last 2-3 months