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Old 16th Jan 2014, 15:34
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I guess you are already a member of the flying prevention branch!

And you didn't even know it until now!
Real mature response there, along the lines of "you are either for us or against us".

I'm not going to pretend to say I understand the full ramifications involved in operating what is undoubtedly a fairly complex aircraft that, as the statistics quite clearly show, was a bit of a nightmare to operate when fully supported by BAe and had specialist-to-type aircraft technicians pouring over it routinely. What I will say though is that (in my ever-so-humble opinion) if only a quarter of what is alleged in the CAA crash report is true, then to have an aircraft like this operated by seemingly the same organisation as previously (nothing stated on Thunder City's website counters this opinion) is quite worrying.

I would dearly love to see a Lightning flying in the UK but there are very well-trodden and fairly well-understood reasons why we don't have them flying around over here. As much as many can poo poo such worries as "Health and Safety gone mad" or whatever such line spills from the gutter press these concerns are real and must be addressed.
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