In Iraq with the type of targets around certainly attack helicopters, in many cases looking back to upgraded WW2 type aircraft would probably be more than adequate to deal with the soft skinned vehicles being targeted, but of course more substantial targets would need the hitting power of modern aircraft, the problem is, if you’re not careful you finish up with a mix of aircraft which can’t work together.

It’s easy to point the finger at journalists or papers, but idiot MPs like this guy leave themselves open to blackmail, subversion or “persuasion”, no sympathy whatsoever.

The DVLA website has crashed evidently as they didnt foresee the demand for road tax payments.
Is it me? Something works well for many decades and then some pen pusher wants to change it without telling anyone how to.

I have been taxing my car on line now for a number of years, why in hell the whole thing should just go belly up this time is beyond me, there is a so called new system which looks remarkably like the old system, but get this, “works faster and smoother giving the customer a much improved experience”, adds at the end, “we welcome feedback as to your experience”, bet the feedback makes interesting reading.

Well the Scots particularly and the Northern Irish and Northern English do pretty well out of Westminster subsidies. And it may have escaped your attention but the whole of the UK is represented at Westminster by several hundred MPs.

You may just find plenty in the North of England who wouldn’t exactly endorse that comment, just to cheer you up many in the North are watching with interest just how much is being promised to Scotland to stay within the UK, Westminster and most of it’s occupants are regarded as being remote and removed from the realities of life and I’m not referring just to Tories.

True but it would also lose about 12% of its revenue.

Why so much, Scotland accounts for 8.4% of the population of the UK at the moment.

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It might just be a fan, but it’s a bloody big heavy lump, especially when the Harrier dispenses with all that cr*p, you would have thought you would been better re engineering the reheated version of the Pegasus that was cancelled. Why reinvent the wheel.

Isn’t there also issues that it uses about 30% of the fuel capacity in the hover/ landing mode. And that there are issues with over the deck / landing angles?

Wasn’t the problem with the reheated Pegasus more one of giving the fuselage a bit of a roasting?, I remember reading somewhere that fireproofing the aircraft from the jet eflux added so much weight that the damn thing would be lucky to leave the ground.

Must agree that pre Harrier there were numerous ideas and designs utilising seperate lift engines or fans, all failed miserably, the real fun ones were those which basically consisted of standing the aircraft on its tail and launching rocket style, take offs were interesting, getting them back down even more so.

Thanks for the link, never seen that one, perhaps someone should let the Kenyan lad see it before he does himself a serious mischief.

John
I see you have gained one of Cameron’s clowns, fairly unknown, hope for more says Nigel, best thing that could possibly happen————————— for the Labour party.