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Pass the sick bag!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17863501

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I'm sure there were plenty of Go Arounds that day then.

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New pants moments. Been in an aborted landing before and didn't like it that much but saying that wouldn't like any of those landings that were done

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A great report I missed last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17843764

I didn't know that Canberras were still in active service in the early 2000s

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I can actually say that I have worked on that aircraft when I was an Avionics Corporal at RAF Wyton until 1991.

And according to this http://www.raf.mod.uk/organisation/39squadron.cfm the PR9's were still going strong until 2006.

We were almost involved in the 1st Gulf War but at that time they couldn't guarantee the safety of the aircraft or crew.

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It will be a Quantas A380 bringing the Aussie Olympic team to Stansted.

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One of the new Sukhoi Superjet 100s is missing after leaving Jakarta, it vanished from radar less than an hour after takeoff..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18004097

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I really would not like to fly on a Russian plane

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The series only just performed it's first commercial passenger flight last month :rolleyes: If it's a technical issue then this may cripple Sukhoi..

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According to Wiki the flight was a demonstration flight..

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And guess what they do.. Sign off on the order for F35Bs (that's the ski-jump version)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18008171

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I think the decision has been more or less forced, sadly, thanks to decisions taken in office by Labour. The decision to build two ma-hoosive penis extension supercarriers and then equip them with fighters designed for light carriers (i.e. the Invincible class, one of which is still slated to remain rather pointlessly in service, sans aircraft, until 2014) was always rather batty. Liam Fox saw the logic of equipping supercarriers with aircraft designed to get the maximum benefit of their size and pursued orders for F35-C instead, accompanied with a plan to retro-fit the cats and traps to the carriers, but the fact is, retro-fitting that kit was always going to be more expensive than building it into the design from the drawing board and the cost has gone through the roof. The country can barely afford the carriers as it is; something had to give and I think they have now made the best of a bad job.

What should have happened from the outset was a decision either to build a new generation of light carriers with F35-Bs embarked, or one or two new supercarriers with F35-Cs and the attendant catapults and arrestors. Why Labour decided to mismatch STOVL aircraft with a supercarrier runway is anybody's guess, but now we're stuck with it.

The only possible consolation is that the most famous supercarrier of them all, USS Enterprise, has been in service now for more than 50 years. If our new QE-class carriers have anything like that longevity, they should live to see economically happier times and the next generation of aircraft to be stationed aboard them might just be 'proper' carrier fighters.

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They've found the Sukhoi's crash site from the air, no word yet on the fate of the crew/passengers..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18015534

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World War II fighter found in Egyptian desert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18038650

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I really hope they can get it back to the Uk and a museum before people go pulling it to pieces.

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Indeed. But now they have told everyone its there you can bet they are already stripping it.