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Finger Poking,
You have gone silent and deep - I wonder why.
Please stay that way
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Duncan D'Sorderlee,
No, but anyone in the back seat is.....
JP (hunlightjag)
You have gone silent and deep - I wonder why.
Please stay that way
.Duncan D'Sorderlee,
No, but anyone in the back seat is.....
JP (hunlightjag)
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Not Hidden.... or even bothered about what some over inflated Ego's think.
I stated Facts.
Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?
Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.
Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!
I stated Facts.
Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?
Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.
Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!
Lancaster
Hurricane
Dakota
Chipmumk
Swordfish
Sea Fury
Sea Hawk
Red Arrows
Not exactly operational either. So when would you like these got rid of.
Personaly, I think Illegal immigrants are a bigger waste of tax payers money.
So please FP, remove your head from your backside, and get a life.
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'as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having'
Er...one Disbandment Parade (to lay-up the Sqn Standard for the very first time - not unreasonable) and one weekend of events at the end of June, to include a Happy Hour, a Families Day and a Ball. And just 2 months from flash to bang. Which bit of this is excessive?
It's all funded privately so I don't understand where the waste of money accusation comes from. The jets have been delivered to Cosford as quickly as it has been safe to do so. The pilots need to be current to land safely on a runway that is only about a third of the length of the NATO standard.
FP - if you have never been a part of something that you want to celebrate, then I pity you.
Er...one Disbandment Parade (to lay-up the Sqn Standard for the very first time - not unreasonable) and one weekend of events at the end of June, to include a Happy Hour, a Families Day and a Ball. And just 2 months from flash to bang. Which bit of this is excessive?
It's all funded privately so I don't understand where the waste of money accusation comes from. The jets have been delivered to Cosford as quickly as it has been safe to do so. The pilots need to be current to land safely on a runway that is only about a third of the length of the NATO standard.
FP - if you have never been a part of something that you want to celebrate, then I pity you.
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Originally Posted by Finger Poking
Not Hidden.... or even bothered about what some over inflated Ego's think.
I stated Facts.
Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?
Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.
Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!
I stated Facts.
Flying JAGUAR is a waste of the TAX PAYERS money as it has no Operational Role. How many times do they need to say Goodbye to a piece of metal?
Probably as many as the amount of 'Farewell' Bash's they are having.
Pointless & pathetic. Get your posting, get a grip and move on !!
As for the money being spent, I'm sure you realise that pointing to something you believe to be a waste of money, and offering up how many of something else (you deem worthy) that money could buy is a pointless exercise. Things just don't work like that - otherwise you and I wouldn't be in a job. How many life saving cancer drugs could the MOD's budget buy for example...
I speak not as someone who actually worked on the Jag in service, but as someone who recognises the place such things have in the grand scheme. Maybe you are totally dispassionate towards such things, but fortuntaley others still maintain a some soul.
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The average age of Jaguar pilots is not 61 - it's 59. Lightning pilots are even older because we go back all the way to the early 60's.
Now then Finger Poking, one major advantage of advancing years is that it becomes easier to identify individuals who exude the same substances from both ends of their bodies.
JP
Now then Finger Poking, one major advantage of advancing years is that it becomes easier to identify individuals who exude the same substances from both ends of their bodies.
JP
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The RAF has a long tradition of doing pointless things to a very high standard!
The Jaguar's long overdue retirement has to many become of a symbol of the establishment cutting short something they think should go on for ever.
Whilst our NATO partners are busy retiring early F-16's and F-18's we worry about an aircraft that should have been replaced by Typhoon years ago!
The Jaguar's long overdue retirement has to many become of a symbol of the establishment cutting short something they think should go on for ever.
Whilst our NATO partners are busy retiring early F-16's and F-18's we worry about an aircraft that should have been replaced by Typhoon years ago!
Riley Dove,
That would be all well and good if Typhoon had the capabilities to be able to replace the Jaguar. It will do, one day.
And if we were getting enough of them....
That would be all well and good if Typhoon had the capabilities to be able to replace the Jaguar. It will do, one day.
And if we were getting enough of them....
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Jaguar
'Good trustworthy people' - ye gods !
I presume there's a Jaguar 'funny handshake' too ?
Exactly what payload did the Jaguar carry ?
Thought so.
It was a poor man's substitute for TSR2, just as the Harrier was a substitute for P1154; the difference is, the Harrier works.
As for being overworked in 'Stan, there are plenty more, it's down to the deployment types.
The aft fuselage issue was dealt with long ago on the 2+, it's again a matter of money & wrenching it from the hands of clueless B****rds...
I presume there's a Jaguar 'funny handshake' too ?
Exactly what payload did the Jaguar carry ?
Thought so.
It was a poor man's substitute for TSR2, just as the Harrier was a substitute for P1154; the difference is, the Harrier works.
As for being overworked in 'Stan, there are plenty more, it's down to the deployment types.
The aft fuselage issue was dealt with long ago on the 2+, it's again a matter of money & wrenching it from the hands of clueless B****rds...
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
I suspect someone forgot to invite Finger Poking to a Squadron bash, or maybe even put him on duty over the weekend. Both understandable things to do.