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February 3, 2011 at 11:39 am in reply to: The Harrier jump jet for sale on eBay at £69,999 #1134000

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sure that’s appeared a couple of times on the ebay thread in the past.

February 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm in reply to: TSR.2 Memories project #1134738

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Has some on youtube and sure there is more if you search around.

February 2, 2011 at 3:24 pm in reply to: Tracking down ex-Service aircrew ? Writing a book #1134920

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I’d be up for a copy of it once done.

What about contacting the local press and get them to run an article about ‘local author writing book, looking for eye witnesses’ or something along those lines, sure a lot of the local rags where not much really happens would be happy to run it.

I’m pretty sure that round the Chard/Crewkerne area there were a few things and know the Chard + Ilminster paper has all the old papers and cover what went down round there. I expect the same would apply across the county.

February 2, 2011 at 12:28 pm in reply to: J-20 Black Eagle – Part 4 #2352017

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Interjecting with a moment of humour into this thread

This clip from about 30 seconds in sums up the issue of trying to determine scale and size due to ‘relative’ objects.

Until the figures are released from a reliable source then we will never really know and everything is just going to be estimates.

Incidentally Starikki any chance of a copy of the plans you’re basing your model on?

February 2, 2011 at 9:06 am in reply to: General Discussion #300840

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Amazed that one house on another estate near us has a total of 30 antisocial behaviours against it, glad I don’t live there.

February 2, 2011 at 9:06 am in reply to: New crime-mapping website #1891950

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Amazed that one house on another estate near us has a total of 30 antisocial behaviours against it, glad I don’t live there.

February 1, 2011 at 4:55 pm in reply to: 1, IV and 800 NAS sadly now history #1136637

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Even India has a ship to land theirs on

February 1, 2011 at 11:17 am in reply to: Keen on Rugby? #504125

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Also look at the way the fans behave at the football, segregated, treated like cattle,special family areas.

Where as at our local club my 2 year old daughter is more than happy on the terrace where everyone is friendly and we don’t worry about her at all. The club provides face painting and soft drinks for the kids before the match and she gets to meet lots of internationals who are all really good with the kids. There is the very odd bit of rude language from someone who is normally frustrated at the ref but then realises the error of their ways, but none of the open hostility that is associated with football’s more extreme fans.

The players are all good role models for the kids, don’t do silly things (ok so a couple of exceptions) and aren’t over paid primadonnas.

Probably cricket is much the same but we don’t go to the matches so can’t comment.

February 1, 2011 at 9:03 am in reply to: Keen on Rugby? #504135

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Such a shame that some of us live in a country where the only rugby player that the press seem to be aware of is Saint Johnny of Wilkinson and football is everything.

Love to see an aircraft painted in some of the English club colours.

Still it’ll probably be the usual case of the Kiwis bottling a big game and not making the finals, my guess is the wallabies and England in a replay of the 2003 final

January 31, 2011 at 6:44 pm in reply to: What historic a/c could be massed produced for the modern RAF? #1137944

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How did you get them there and back?:)

On a very very large aircraft ca…oh erm

Couldn’t they be refueled by other…um

I give up.

January 30, 2011 at 9:13 am in reply to: US Fighter numbering #2353344

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Taking it a bit further, don’t aircrews normally have names for their aircraft, even if not the designated one, think about all the nicknames the US seem to have for their aircraft.

So why do we know the stuff that is not (as you say) used by both nations known in aviation circles generally by the serial.

Maybe we Brits are just a bit more sentimental about our aircraft and like to give them a name.

Allowing my mind to wander a bit, when did the US just start using numbers as the primary identification, during the war there was the cross over, P51 Mustang being the obvious example but then we also operated them.

My head is hurting again trying to work it all out.

January 29, 2011 at 8:30 pm in reply to: TORNADO DOWN #2353586

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Any more news on the health of the crew?

January 29, 2011 at 7:58 pm in reply to: 1, IV and 800 NAS sadly now history #1140053

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Should have flown the full 16 ship formation up the Thames at zero feet to prove a point.

If the article and quote are correct then 1 Sqn is only having a temporary rest before being reformed, can’t see any new Naval squadrons for along time though.

January 29, 2011 at 7:56 pm in reply to: US Fighter numbering #2353650

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I suppose the fact that we Brits now say ‘It’s a C-17’ rather than ‘It’s a Globemaster’ means we are becoming more American in all we say and do – go figure 😎

Ken

But do we say look at that Fighting Falcon or Eagle instead of F-16 or F-18? It seems that the name Effwonateen is a name in its own right so we are just using their term, who really calls a B-1 a Lancer? However I’m sure that if we ever get some F-35s they’ll be known by the Lightning term (probably dropping the II most of the time).

Plus we call the Typhoon the Typhoon not some silly number :rolleyes:

January 29, 2011 at 6:17 pm in reply to: US Fighter numbering #2353709

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PS – We could start a whole thread about why us Brits tend to use the names of our aircraft (Phantom, Harrier, Hercules etc) and the US tends to just refer to them by their numbers (F-4, AV-8, C-130 etc)

Something in the national psyche ???

PPS – When saying that we Brits name our aircraft, don’t mention the VC-10 :diablo:

PPPS – I don’t think either side uses ‘Globemaster II’ do they ?

No one used F-4 Phantom II, we named the Harrier and even the Catalina which the US then adopted, though they did ignore the Washington label.

There’s no such thing as a VC-10 (just a pile of scrap at Brunty).

Is an interesting question, apart from the early stuff, the VC-10 and the TSR2 (which didn’t get into service) plus other development stuff which I will ignore and some early stuff everything has been named but why?
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