Personally I don’t care whether the first flight is publicised or not, as long as she gets off the ground, does a circuit and comes back safe.

I’ve waited this long- another month won’t hurt me, and i’d rather be able to take my missus and explain what its all about during a display at an airshow rather than a quick circuit, regardless of its significance.

There seems to be a lot of jostling for premier position here from some forumites, along the lines of ‘I contributed more so I should be able to see her fly first, before the hoy paloy’. Isn’t this rather childish? Just be happy that there will be a first flight, and give those who have contributed hundreds of man hours of back breaking work over the last decade the opportunity to watch their work finally bear fruit. Surely it’s exclusively the engineers who should see her fly first, with the press, hangers-on and the general public coming in second.

Just my opinion.

*sigh* and what is the ‘point’ of this thread?

That because a few marines got bored whilst out patroling and had a little fun with a goat that they -and by they I mean the entirity of the USMC, US Army and every other poor schmuck who is unfortunate enough to be sent out there – therefore MUST be acting dispicably against the population?

Perhaps we could maybe step away from the poor goat and see how it reacted to the bombings by air that have famously broken peoples‘ spirits and bones, the continued ambushes by Taliban forces against the US and allied troops, day to day life in a warzone etc…

Come on lads, if the damned goat can survive that then hows it going to be worried by a jarhead pulling a prank? :confused:

It’s so slow we’re being overtaken by stationary objects, chaps.

Thanks for looking into it Webby.

“So Mr. X you were innocently wandering about the highly classified, in use, military airfield after vaulting a fence and evading the notoriously jumpy armed patrolmen with dogs with your wife?”

“Yes Sir, me and Shelia – thats the wife m’lud – were protesting about the War in Iraq and we decided to break onto the airfield to protest by damaging one of those airplanes that fly the bombs over there see? So me and Shelia vaulted the fence and were proceeding towards the aircraft when suddenly from no-where the accused leaped out of the bushes and shouted for us to get down!”

“and that surprised you Mr. X?”

“Oh indeed Sir. I walked over to the accused and asked him to put the gun down as it frightened the wife. I tried to reach into the pocket of my jacket to show my ID card but I think he was spooked by the banana that Shelia had packed for our elevenses and balaclava and he opened fire, hitting me in the chest twice.”

“so you’re suing the MoD for negligence and actual bodily harm in your injuries, Mr. X?”

“Yes sir, the accused shot me without any provokation whatsoever.”

What would have happened had they been shot.

They may well have been difficult to get in Britain, but what about in Germany?

Personally I think they should be damn glad that they wern’t shot on sight.

Breaking onto a military airfield and trying to disable millions of dollars worth of strategic bomber…

Treasonable offence I say- hang the ******s!!

My handle is a nickname I had when I was at school (and when I first registered) at a time where even my teachers called me Barnowl or Barnie.

It got so silly at one point that a girl I was seeing once asked why I signed things as Andy when my name was Barnie. We’d been going out for six months at that point…

So in my defence, when I registered Barnowl pretty much was my name.