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For those interested in early aviation a fantastic story set 100 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11547569

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Interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11654390

How regular are cargo flights and their routes? I assume you can't get a GPS signal without an external antennae but if their approach takes them over populated areas and a certain time it could be an easy way to cause mass casualties.

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Apparently East Midlands airports cargo terminal was cordoned off this morning, opened up and then cordoned off again earlier today according to local radio earlier

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-11654004

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-11654481

Re-examining a package that had been declared safe? Something weird has been going off!!

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Yeah I've been hearing eveything from it being a suspected bomb to it being a printer cartridge.
That is my local airport and I often see the UPS planes coming in.

Let's hope this reminds everyone not to reduce the security at airports.

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Looks like XH558 will be able to continue flying:

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/1...ul-Appeal.html

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The annoying thing is that that kept saying toner ink:rolleyes:.

Toner is a powder, NOT an ink.

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Some good pictures of the Quantas A380 that suffered the engine problem here...

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And now problems for Boeing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11728915

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Some fantastic harrier pics (link kindly given out on another forum)

http://fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/vi...p?f=16&t=23799

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Absolutely stunning - thanks Kymmy :)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-12142963

Any pictures anyone??

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No links yet (or pictures/diagrams)



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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...r-on-film.html

Including some video

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110111/...tealth_fighter

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Why does the J10 their last fighter to go into production look like a typhoon and their new J20 stealth looks like a raptor :rolleyes:

Are they ever gonna produce anything without ripping off another countries hard work???

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Why go to the bother of spending billions on design when they can just use spies to get technology a few years old at a fraction of the cost?

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Because in the end they get it wrong and end up with an inferiour product as they don't have the initial testing..

May I remind you of Concordski in Paris ;)

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I always thought that imitation is flattery ;)

but yeah China's airpower is basically cloned from Russian, European and US manufactoring companies.