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Old 25th Jan 2007, 22:28
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BBMF on News 24
Was nice to see the BBMF Dakota and lancaster on news 24 and hopefully to see the New colour scheme after april. Thought the reporter hadn't done his basic reasearch when he stated it was the only Lancaster in the UK!!!!!!
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How many airworthy Lancasters are in the UK then?
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And how much does it cost the hard pressed defence budget to keep it flying?
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Originally Posted by Runaway Gun
How many airworthy Lancasters are in the UK then?
Loads. They store them in that secret air station underneath a mountain in Wales along with 2 dozen Vulcan's, a handful of Buccs and the 4 squadrons of TSR2's they did build.

Don't tell anyone though, its kind of a secret.
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Originally Posted by Letsby Avenue
And how much does it cost the hard pressed defence budget to keep it flying?
Not very much at all. They have quite a bit of sponsorship.

BTW, how much does it cost to keep all those battalions of infantry and troops of calvary in London, defending the capital against the Roundheads?
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Thats a good point. Companies such as Rolls-Royce (Owned by BMW), Landrover (Owned by Ford), Breitling (Swiss) and all the other companies mentioned, all give thousands of pounds each year to provide spares, fuel and pay for the maintenance of these fine examples of military aircraft.
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And how much does it cost the hard pressed defence budget to keep it flying?
Yeah, go on, ground the airborne memorial to the 50,000 of Bomber Command.
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i would strngly suspect the government that do that will be in a whole world of pain
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i would strngly suspect the government that do that will be in a whole world of pain
Somehow I doubt that. This country is afflicted by public lethargy, ignorance and a collective attention span of 5 seconds.
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Sad thought that there were more Bomber Command aircrew killed in WW2 than there are uniformed personnel in today's RAF!
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uniformed personnel in today's RAF
There are more ATC spaceys than uniformed personnel in today's RAF
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The RAF can't fill all the seats in Murrayfield.
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Originally Posted by vecvechookattack
Thats a good point. Companies such as Rolls-Royce (Owned by BMW),.
A bit of pedantry, but the while the RR that makes cars (Rolls-Royce Motors) is owned by BMW, the RR plc that makes the aero-engines (and I imagine is the RR that contributes to BBMF etc) is not owned by BMW but is a UK stock market listed company in which quite a lot of us probably have shares!
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Is there just 2 airworthy Lancs with the other one in Canada.
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The RAF can't fill all the seats in Murrayfield.
Given the state of English and Scottish rugby - why would we want to?
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I see the get rid of the Red Arrows theme has reapeared this week
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Originally Posted by Almost_done
The RAF can't fill all the seats in Murrayfield.
The RAF can't fill the seats of a park bench at the mo!
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The crowd at murrayfield probably have better weapons than the armed forces, and are more motivated to use them.
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The crowd at murrayfield probably have better weapons than the armed forces, and are more motivated to use them.
Which is more than can be said for the English cricket team
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Ahh, cricket, where Oz are rather good, England are crap, and Scotland is a Minor County.
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