Let’s not also forget that a c-17 can hold a lot of special forces paratroops. I’m sure there are both people drawing up contingency plans at the MoD and some of our MI6 friends keeping an eye on the situation in Argentina. Besides the Mail’s only real use is as an emergency toilet roll substitute.

Merry Christmas to you all BTW!

There is however one reason they wont put anything into action. Our submarine fleet with tomahawks.

May I suggest you place a large empty and thoroughly cleaned fuel drum near to your aircraft in which you hide wearing a suitably scary hockey mask or something similar. Another more sensible idea is to set a small night vision enabled camera up mounted inside of your aircraft and activated with a motion sensor covering the area of your fuel filler. It would even be possible to stream the image online if you have access to a wifi signal at the airfield or use a 3G gsm sender. You could then monitor from the comfort of your own home and even inform the police of the act being in progress which must open up the possibility of the thieves being caught in the act.
I live in the new forest but I’d be more than happy to set up the electronics for you if interested and needed! Either way good luck.

Agreed, the firefly seems reasonably priced considering the work done and the fact its in dollars.

You could use rocket assisted takeoff in combination with the steam catapult for heavily laden aircraft. The Vulcan and victors would have needed a double wing fold like the gannet. Alternatively there could be a hanger ship that docked with the flight deck ship only when transferring aircraft for launch or after recovery.

For alternative launch options how about having a vulcan doing circuits of the carrier. You line the next v bomber up and along with the catapult have a large bungee cord attached to the nose glider style. The flying Vulcan uses a modified arrestor hook to catch the large loop on the other end of the bungee at high speed. A sensor detects the pickup and triggers the catapult which launches the deck aircraft with the flying Vulcan helping to heave it into the air.

Just a though, considering were thinking outside the box. Although probably impossible you have you admit it would be bloody entertaining to watch.

Would it not be possible to self publish digital copies of books like this through a retailer such as Amazon? I have a friend who has self published her novel on Amazon. Its costs almost nothing and the money from any sales goes directly to you minus a small deduction for the retailer.

The other advantage being that you can sell much cheaper while maintaining the same margin as you have no printing or distribution costs.

I apologise for this comment being somewhat removed from the subject of the thread, it was just a thought!