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Old 1st Sep 2010, 09:08
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Al R
 
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Mel's gone to Iceland?

<But Melville ten Cate, the company’s Dutch co-founder, insists that there is nothing sinister about his plan to buy €1.2bn ($1.5bn, £983m) of warplanes from Belarus and bring them to Iceland.>

FT.com / Europe - Iceland set to embrace war-game fliers

<Several defence industry officials contacted by the Financial Times are deeply sceptical of ECA’s business plan, given the cost of buying and maintaining fighter aircraft.>

I wonder what 'ash' insurance would cost him, and I'm sure there'd be an opportunity somewhere, out there, for professional 'enemy' ground forces.
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