Vulcanone wrote:Is it just me or does the wreckage in the third photo on TJs news link just looks oddly not Bear?

Tim

looks like SU-24 rear end to me

Sentinel will be replaced by F-35B. The distributed aperture system/electro optic targeting/AESA radar capabilities on that jet are a generation beyond sentinel and E-8 JSTARS SAR/MTI. so are the US dumping their own Jstars? :whistle: "The distributed aperture system/electro optic targeting/AESA ra...

Wonderful....

Rotation at 145kts unstick at 175kts or so dry power, 155kts in reheat on a twin stick give or take a few pending on weight etc ...link
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ng-213442/

Have to love the graphic they did to show the separation gap/height.....quality work as always!

Skoshi, thanks for your measured reply! When one compares our country with the rest of the under-developed world, it would be fair to say that our house is very much in order. Nobody is dying of endemic diseases on a grand scale, no-one is starving, living in tin huts with no running water or sanit...

jem60 wrote:Foreign Aid should not be touched.

balls to that, sort our own house out first before we start handing out cash we don't have.....

USS Wasp and it was a USMC 35 ...it makes a racket i'll give it that...65mil each????

Cant see many mil orders with that, just doesn't look right...

Last day tomorrow the tidy crews came in today off the AMS flight into Newcastle, unsure if any range flying tomorrow but troops due out on Saturday from Newcastle if all goes well.

The first Teesside airshow in 25 years is set to take flight with air displays, on-the-ground fun, classic cars and live music. Skylive have partnered with Durham Tees Valley Airport to bring back the Tees Valley Airshow to the region, last held in 1989, as dozens of planes, helicopters and classic...

Get well soon matey!!

Jolly good as I'm going up again tomorrow!

Today from 10 am... Apollo 1 + 2 Typhoon's multiple threats had the range for 30 mins working 282.05 Pirate 15 Hawk passed through onto Otterburn 279.0 switched to "Blue 17" for CAS work, couldn't find "Blue 17" using 3 scanners searching :( Marham 89 Tornado did 2 runs then departed working 308.775...

They had just done a few runs at Spadeadam too...

Quality....total quality!!!!
thx for sharing some of the best pics I've seen in a long time......

Question is do we really need Trident?...I don't think so in this day and age.

http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2013/07/c ... er-lining/

that's from 2013 though...

Bushpilot wrote:Argentine pilots will have to learn to fly sitting on the floor with a map as the Mb ejector seats and western avionics won't be available

Chinese copys!!! they can copy anything else wouldn't take them long to reverse engineer anything the buy off the shelf...

Nothing wrong with Bresser though, had a pair 20 yrs ago and they were brilliant, would still be using them had they not been stolen! So bought some Minolta bins which have brilliant iq, but I also use Nikon 8 x40's and a Nikon Scope