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Old 16th Jan 2013, 13:59
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What's interesting about that story is the degree to which the PR boat is pushed out for a former Grauniad architecture and design correspondent who knows as much about airplanes as most of us here know about post-modern decommissioned cathouses in Brussels ...

(srsly folks - Constructive criticism: the week in architecture | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

...although I did like this line:

It’s what we call a South West policy,’ says Steve O’Bryan, Lockheed Martin’s fast-talking vice-president for F-35 business development, referring to America’s most popular budget airline, the inspiration behind EasyJet and Ryanair.

It made me think immediately of this (language gets NSFW about half way in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc

"ity ity a**e" is probably a fair summary of what JSF customers will be saying by mid-year.
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