Which aircraft are the BBC talking about?

[BOAC]

Chinny - not taken as such. I was visualising Katherine's Scammell wheelnuts after all those hours in a 'very cold aircraft' - and came over all funny...................

[Willard Whyte]

I get so annoyed when people slate others for coming out to Herrick or elsewhere to give a small amount of enjoyment to those away from home.

I get annoyed when people with no discernible sense of humour write on these forums.

[Just an other number]

Blunt's article in the Telegraph 6 March 2012

James Blunt: Britain's failure to get troops into battle is pitiful - Telegraph

[airborne_artist]

Resigned to the fact that someone, somewhere has constructed an expensive system that doesn’t deliver.

For a former donkey-walloper he's quite sharp

[Sook]

James Blunt's original tweetor messages stated:

"Just had an announcement that the aircraft has got a problem. We're circling over Dubai (United Arab Emirates). I can see the world's tallest building below... We have an air leak. It's become very cold on the aircraft. Only 30mins short of Camp Bastion, but we're heading back to Cyprus. Not going to make it to Afghanistan tonight. Broken plane. Will try again tomorrow."

I did proper subjects at school rather than geography, but the last time I checked Dubai is a couple of hours from Bastion not 30 minutes. That probably explains the return to Cyprus (and also fixing a broken jet in Cyprus is probably easier than at Bastion).

[BOAC]

Originally Posted by Sook

I did proper subjects at school rather than geography,

-aha! The full tweat shows us that becoming an Army Officer does not require that much of an education However, it is still around 2 1/2 times further back to Cyprus - and what about the Scamell Nuts anyway?.