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  • December 29, 2011 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Phantom Photos #1043729
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    Bravo 24.
    Why would you restore a cockpit?
    It is something that has always fascinated me. So Anorak. It’s similar to restoring the front seat of a 1963 Ford Capri!
    Why bother.
    If you are really interested in aviation, go the full hog, and actually get your teeth into an airframe. And don’t bother with…”it’s all some of us can afford”
    There…I will duck from the incoming.

    August 15, 2011 at 7:21 am in reply to: Rob Davies on BBD Crash #1053870
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    My American P-51D Mustang?
    My understanding is that the majority lineage of BBD is a Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Mustang, built in Melbourne.
    Picky, I know.:D

    August 11, 2011 at 4:50 am in reply to: Carrier Hilarity on the Beeb #2369822
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    Couldn’t agree more, Rookh…. why would it be a joke?

    August 10, 2011 at 6:30 am in reply to: Strange plane in Australia #574680
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    Very interested in the Blackhawks flying alongside and the location of this mock-up.
    The helicopters are from the American forces, unless the Australian Army has been hiding things.

    March 23, 2011 at 11:04 am in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2367713
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    Sheet aluminium does not burn. It melts.
    Heat it…it loses strength and eventually melts. If you are dealing with an alloy with magnesium, you may succeed in getting it to burn.
    But aircraft grade aluminium, with nothing else tossed into the pot, will not burn.

    May 21, 2010 at 6:30 am in reply to: The New Red Baron Film #1146475
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    Why would the scriptwriters have MvR meeting Roy Brown in no man’s land?
    Roy Brown didn’t shoot him down

    March 14, 2010 at 8:37 am in reply to: EADS lobbying for tanker deadline extension #2425680
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    DJ

    The amusing thing is…our A-330 tankers will be flying and will have supplied fuel to USAF aircraft during exercises, while Boeing is still trying to bolt their 767 together. And of course, the costs will have gone through the roof.
    But then of course, USAF flyers might be banned from taking fuel from a “Frenchie” aircraft.

    March 10, 2010 at 4:18 am in reply to: No Bid for NG/EADS Tanker #2427248
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    ST-21

    You said in your long post:

    “USAF tried again, and this time wrote the requirement in a way that was blatantly set up so that only EADS could possibly win. That was quickly shot down and it never even made it to the formal solicitation phase.”

    Paraphrasing what you said in regard to the latest “contest” :”The USAF wrote the requirement so that only a Boeing product could win”

    So why wasn’t that “shot down”

    To a bemused observer of jingoistic, “it wasn’t invented here” behaviour, I find it hard to come to any other conclusion than…the fix was in.

    And the A-330 based tankers are flying, with the first two expected to be in RAAF operation by mid-year (admittedly a little late)

    November 25, 2009 at 10:09 am in reply to: Australia: Green light to buy Joint Strike Fighters #2433171
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    It’s amazing the number of times people have to be told you can’t take a program dollar figure and divide it by the number of aircraft.
    There is training…there is infrastructure, buildings and stuff for the life of the aircraft…there are spares…maybe even weapons.
    They make up a program cost.
    It is very silly to do the simple math and come up with a cost per aircraft. It doesn’t work that way.

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