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The RAF are appealing for the public to report if they've seen a panel that fell off the wing of an AWACS during a flight over North Lincs recently.
Nothing on the Beeb website yet.
Nothing on the Beeb website yet.
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Horribly reminiscent of last night's Top Gear. Clarkson's £1,000 Rover SD1 shed panels, doors etc with almost perfect timing.
As for the AWACS panel - just check all the Ford Transit pickups in the area. An itinerant will have it on the back ready to weigh in at his nearest metals recycler
As for the AWACS panel - just check all the Ford Transit pickups in the area. An itinerant will have it on the back ready to weigh in at his nearest metals recycler
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Did any bits of that ship fall off over Lincs, though?
And what would be more newsworthy:
a) Bits falling off a ship flying over Lincs?
b) A ship flying over Lincs?
And what would be more newsworthy:
a) Bits falling off a ship flying over Lincs?
b) A ship flying over Lincs?
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And the POINT?
Love the article though:
"Andrew Brookes, the air power expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said panels did drop off from time to time.
"They are little panels that close and fasteners can go wrong or goodness knows what."
and then the quote from our man at the ministry:
""The safety of our crews is paramount; we are investigating this incident thoroughly."
Well he would say that, wouldn't he?
Love the article though:
"Andrew Brookes, the air power expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said panels did drop off from time to time.
"They are little panels that close and fasteners can go wrong or goodness knows what."
and then the quote from our man at the ministry:
""The safety of our crews is paramount; we are investigating this incident thoroughly."
Well he would say that, wouldn't he?
I think the point is that a metre is about 3 feet and 3 inches.
3 feet 28 inches = 5 feet 4 inches or somewhere well over 1½ metres.
Must be the result of A*** Maths A Levels.
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They may have been put at risk of the panel hitting them but that is different. That would have been an accident anyway and not an incident.
, but I certainly didn't get the point from the Beeb.The AWACS is a US aircraft, so why should we have to put up with metric measurements?
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Some years ago (late 60s) a panel detached from a Wyton Canberra on take off in the vicinity of Huntingdon. Fell into a woman's back garden breaking her greenhouse. She reported that the RAF could easily find the culprit as she had the aircraft's number . . . DTD26******!
