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Old 28th Jun 2011, 06:51
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BEagle
 
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Those grapes are sour, aren't they, Beagie?
Not at all! If the Spams are so totally stupid as to believe Ol' Bubba's bull$hit, they deserve all they get. But I doubt whether the shareholders will be overjoyed at the fact that the Frankentanker programme is already over budget....

As for the Vag....Voyager operating from Base Aerea Gringo, as Dan says - no great problem. But I would have thought that an A400M would be a better in-theatre tanker for the Malvinas - if con-tricks, sorry, contracts allowed....

There is one othr snag though - the Timmy hangar is about 1 m narrower than the 330's wingspan (as I reported 10 years ago) and snow and ice are not unknown in the sun-washed jewel of the South Atlantic...
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