That vulcan...

The Typhoon you mean. Well it has a higher flying altitude, longer
range, more versatile, the aircraft quite simply is superb, although an
absolute s*d to support!! And having 4 countries involved in the
design, build etc is a nightmare not only logistically, but also in
specs and build quality. The latest version is coming along nicely
shall we say and the IPT is doing a stirling job, I'll get exact
figures for you if you'd really like them.

Having said that of course, the Lightning has always been a favourite
of mine.

 

It was on national breakfast news

 

And hows Rusty these days? working hard on it?

Is it in one piece yet?

 

He was a total idiot. Incirlik is a US Air Base.

 

Wasn't there some mention of previous monies being mis-used in a fashion
by employing some company who charged greviously for their work?

Might explain why 1.2mil is being sought if half of it is profit for
somebody.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Hog belched forth and ejected the following:

I'd be smug if I were him, too.

 

My thoughts exactly.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I recall seeing a TV prog about the Lightning doing a test. Parked up on the
runway with engines off, to 60,000ft and mach 2... About 3 minutes in total.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Beav wrote

You bothered even thinking about it? You have too much time on your
hands.

 

^
Insert 'beardy, jumpered prat'.

 

Just made it, eh? I suppose they were stationed on all the East and
North airfields to intercept Soviet bombers. I wonder how effective they
would actually have been given the fairly shit missiles they had in
their day.

50 fucking years ago we were making stuff like that; half a century,
ffs.

 

^ rich,

 

Then again the Ruskie bombers were incredibly fucking slow.
I recal BAE giving the airforces a chance to intercept a Concorde
passing national airspace at full chat. The Mk II was the only one to
achieve an intercept vector.

Well now we have to fund the socially incapable instead. Apparently.

 

That was the point I tried to get over to him but he wasn't having any
of it. He was as thick as pigshit but very obstinate.

 

Which means they were probably working on the idea during WW11.

 

No just after, once we had our hands on German metallurgical and
propulsion technology

 

Oh, I don't mind his richness at all. It's his air of smugness that gets
up my nose. I get the feeling the smuggishness was always there,
pre-dating the riches.

 

In principle it's dead simple - if one is good, then two is better. Take
two engines, strap on a set of wings and something to hold the pilot. It
it goes fast enough it won't fall out of the sky.

Obviously it took a bit more than that to actually make it work
properly, but considering the times it was an amazing bit of kit.

 

They were amazingly reliable for what they were and how they were
designed/built, other than the odd in-flight fire which did not impede
the ejector seat. Both pilots I've met had ejected under those
circumstances.

 

I always thought of the E type Jag in the same terms;
'Kin big engine, coupla seats, wheels, er, that is all.