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Good news    :   Weekend saw 25 Spitfires & Hurricanes in the air . :Salute :Salute :Applaud :Applaud

Bad news :        That was the total of Britain's air defense following all the forces cut-backs . :( :eek:

 
Hum.... back in 1982 they only just achieved the bombing raid on the Falklands airstrip - and that was 33 years ago !
did you see the programme about that?

awesome stuff, the last guys flew on even though they didnt think they would have enough fuel to get back,  :Salute

 
pretty much sums it up, and governmant stopped supporting the R&D/ industry in general. It was expensive, but it generated far more revenue than it cost

 
Harrier Jump Jet!

Effing AWESOME....end of!

Occasionally came in for a tweak at a "military facility" 100m from daughters back garden SAW ONE HOVERING AT END OF RUNWAY, WE WAVED, HE WAVED BACK AND DIPPED THE NOSE, DID A 360. Nodded, stood it on its arshe and let the clutch out

One of the FEW things that make you proud to be British!...along with the storming of any foreign Embassy!

No offence

 
We must be the dumbest nation that there is, we have had a wealth of genius designers/engineers etc that have graced this earth, yet here we are selling off all our best assets, or even worst case scenario just binning them, begs the question what happens when the countries that have bought our so called obselete equipment against us?

Don't somehow think that the euro fighter is as versatile as the old harrier?

And we're supposed to be the clever ones in the world!!

 
You know that new aircraft carrier. You know the one that comes as an airfix kit to be glued together somewhere in Scotland?

Well a bit of it was photographed doing a secret test of the new generation of jump jets doing a vertical take off.

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