I guess any collapse would have enormous ramifications for the Scottish travel trade and airport revenues, particularly Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

Might give the MoD a headache too, considering the charters out of Brize to the Falklands and Middle East!

I’d either like to see Len Deighton’s “Bomber”, or the story of the daylight raid on the marshalling yards of Cologne, on the 23rd December 1944, as told in Sean Feast’s “Heroic Endeavour”.

Interesting. Any particular cons of the game?

I just found it all a bit fiddly, and seeing anything over 1000 (of any unit) on the air speed loses a bit of cred!

On the plus side, the rendition of Manston looked quite nice – although I don’t think the concrete runway existed in 1940.:)

I’d suggest that if you can, get a demo version. I’d probably be a bit disappointed if I’d bought it purely on the experiences of the PC franchise. The free demo for PS3 is available through the PS3 online store (about a 1GB download), and I’m sure others will be available through the magazines etc.

Judging by a recent thread regarding Hendon and the running of the RAF Museum, and the decision to make them free, introducing parking charges at either site may not be a bad thing, providing the money goes to the right place.

If it doesn’t…:mad:

Yet they are prosecuting a war in Afghanistan using gazillions of gallons of fuel – and chartering inefficient, gas guzzling, environmentally undfriendly old airliners that pollute the skies far more than I ever will with my one holiday trip a year to Russia….. :eek::eek::eek:

You’re talking about the VC10, right?

Only messing; as for the DC-8 old aeroplanes = cheap charter I suspect. I’m sure a nice new Airbus or Boeing freighter operated by a major freight airline would cost most of the defence budget. 😉

They’d be little short of target drones……..

……..now there’s an idea!

Hasn’t Llanbedr closed now?:D

A computer doesn’t need to refresh it’s skills. Leave the human to do what humans do best (strategy and tactics), and let the computer do the mundane stuff.

Mmm…

Here is a picture of a Harrier GR9 in Afganistan. It seems to have a lot of pods/weapons on it. Anyone got any ideas of what we are looking at here. It looks to me as if there is a pod stuck onto the Gun pods in the centre. (or rather i should say Empty Gun Pods because of another screw up at the MOD). I wonder how many times the troops and harrier crews wished they could fire that cannon on deployment i imagine quite a lot. even if they used it 10 times that would still be worth it. I never understood why they didn’t just use the old guns (30mm ADEN i think) that were there originally?

Depends on the job they were doing. A lot of overwatch type stuff, acting as an airborne set of eyes perhaps for the chaps on the ground, and dropping the occasional bomb on an enemy position wouldn’t require the cannon and its servicing and support.

How did they get the harriers back from Afganistan? I know HMS Illustrious was out that way recently.

VC10 I believe, as they arrived at Cottesmore with one of them.:)