Dunno what the fuzz is all about.

In a word ‘uncertainty’

Turkey as an EU member brings a young workforce which the rest of EU (even the bit about to leave) lacks
Admitting that means admitting that all the blaming the migrants was wrong
Which undermines a big change in policy in the UK (and feelings in the rest of the EU)
Suddenly decision time: is it more destabilising to admit that or to face the gap in our (well your) labour force?

The ‘problem with Putin’ is that we (UK) signed a tripartite defence agreement with the Ukraine and Poland in the early 1990s. And we (UK) reneged.
All of the arguments (and they have merits, assigning weight to those merits is more work than a quick post on a hobby forum) on both sides do not change the fact that the UK did not follow up on its treaty obligations.

Al

I suspect that the effect on UK aviation will be the same a the effect on the Uk in general.

The sqrt of fnckall. Neither for good nor ill.

The EU laws we don’t like didn’t come Brussels they were tagged on in Whitehall
The EU laws we do like would make the hatchet person too unpopular and so will stay in place
The fee we pay isn’t anything as big as claimed
There is no way that German industry (to take but one example) is going to allow Merkel to agree to/impose a punitive trade deal which upsets their export prospects
There is a small chance that UK politicians will now take responsibility for their laws and decisions; but in reality they will blame market forces now rather than the ‘bigger boy in Brussels who made me do it‘

Yes.

Bay acoustics are bad only for the 2 seconds while the bay doors are open.
When the bay doors are closed, the environment is no different than the fuselage avionics bays.

Do you have a link for that? I ask because as an explanation that makes a lot of sense. I’ve being trying to get my head around the received wisdom as stated by obligatory* for a while and it has never quite rung true.

* and indeed many others

At the risk of falling to cliches. Each other.

Both organisations need to secure funding from a finite pot. (And that’s not a problem for democratic nations only)

At the beginning of WW2 The Imperial Japanese Navy certainly had a technical and competency-based advantage but Imperial Japan was never able to compete industrially.

If (and thank God it didn’t) the Cold War had ever become a real shooting war then Soviet-era manufacturing capacity and numbers would have posed a genuine existential threat that I don’t think that we in the West* could have met.

*which would pretty much have meant the USAf and USN with a few supporting players

For the all of short-sighted, expensive folly that nuclear weapons represent their very threat did at least prevent such an air war ever starting.

A typical example is the EU obsession with man made global warming.

Climate instability. ‘Global warming’ is a label used by people who do not agree/are not convinced/publicly argue against with the phenomenon.

In the interests of balance; ‘Climate change denier’ is equally as poisonous and value-laden

For myself, I will be voting to leave

There have been some advantages to belonging to the EU. (It may be a national past time to scoff at health and safety gone mad but the UK H+S record did used to be horrific; flipping again though I do like the NZ-style ‘Danger of Dith’ signs discreetly put up next to items which in the UK would be fenced off and painted yellow)

UK central government does not like spending outside of Metropolitan London and/or vote winning areas, and paradoxically I can see less UK tax money spent outside of the chose areas if it is left to our government

But:

I like decentralised government

Removing the convenient ‘a bigger parliament made me do it‘ excuse might actually force some accountability

Many* of the (small and petty) laws we rage at have actually been tacked onto the end of euro-bills as they pass across UK government servant desks. Remove the euro-bills remove that stealth legislation

*Citation needed, I am sure

What would the name of CVA-01 have been?

Vague memories only I’m afraid and without a source, but I think she would have been Queen Elizabeth. And 02 would have been Duke of Edinburgh. At one time there was a plan for 3 so imagine the last would have been Prince of Wales.