They should have just made an F-22 “light” model with updated avionics, no thrust vectoring etc instead of the F-35 in the first place. China is going to start flexing over the next decade so the rest of the world needs to be prepared.

I had a full set of 4 but an American chap purchased the smaller pair to make a rocket car for use in Bonneville about 5 years ago! I have a pair of Swiss sidewinder pylons too.

I have a pair of the larger aluminium Swiss tanks with fins.

Agreed, nice vid but it should be in modern military. I’d rather we just went for the c with cats and traps, the b just looks like a combination of huge amounts of maintenance and a lot to go wrong.

She will be on the way back to the docks in a few hours.

Indeed, upon completion you are awarded the Certificate of Rapid Aircraft Preservation.

You are then eligible to join the Fast Acting Recovery Team crack squad and will be issued with Aviation Recovery Specialist Equipment.

Have they ever actually recovered anything? From the website there seems to be decades of procrastination, some sport diving, telephone calls, pub lunches, back patting but no actual metal on dry ground to show for it. Plenty of begging for money as ‘aviation advocacy is expensive’.

I stand to be corrected and indeed would love to be but from the outside it looks a little like the largely American midlife crisis sport diving, boating and avoiding wives club?

Website is a little tacky as well and why is Richard Gillespie unable to look at the camera in his profile pic? Was he too interested in the boobies on the shore (hey I could be talking about the feathered variety, I’ll let you decide) or is it a failed attempt to look all macho in a nautical way?