Some of his back-of-a-fag-packet costings of naval vs land-based air are quite hilarious. Particularly the ones where he includes every last cost of an airfield (almost down to the bog paper in the guardroom toilets) and then says that naval aircraft operate for free from a carrier (no mention of fuel, supplies, logistics or even ship maintenance). His postings during ELLAMY petered out as everyone realised that the lack of carrier-borne fast air wasn't a show-stopper; perhaps his masters at the Phoenix told him to stop embarrassing them. Shame, because they were quite a study in developing an argument from a one-eyed viewpoint.
The sad thing is that the tone of his blog is not too far detached from the view of the RAF held by a significant proportion of the FAA. Sharkey gets a lot of leaks from them and it is all done with quite a deal of spite. Really, it is time that the differences were sorted out.
Last edited by Easy Street; 27th Aug 2012 at 19:22.