RPAS Pilots Awarded Wings
Biggus, my mistake, I think the correct terminology is ROV, you see, you can call it what you like but the person driving a computer image that cleverly connects to a large and lethal model aircraft isn't really a pilot is he/she; otherwise they'd have been awarded the real flying badge? 
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So the comments about the RAF news worked then RP! - I thought everyone had canned their subscriptions.
I see this morning BBC News reporting these things are being controlled from Waddington. I suppose this keeps costs down. Tropical flying coveralls will not be required. The standard grobags should blend in ok at waddington. People will be going round squinting to see if they have blue or beige leaves on their wings. A bit like me wearing my name badge upside down just to see people twist their necks!
Sounds like we have a Greenham Common type peace camp being set up. That will not please the spotters.
I see this morning BBC News reporting these things are being controlled from Waddington. I suppose this keeps costs down. Tropical flying coveralls will not be required. The standard grobags should blend in ok at waddington. People will be going round squinting to see if they have blue or beige leaves on their wings. A bit like me wearing my name badge upside down just to see people twist their necks!
Sounds like we have a Greenham Common type peace camp being set up. That will not please the spotters.
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Weird isn't it, kicking up a stink over unmanned aircraft dropping bombs on folks, but not complaining about manned ones dropping bombs on folks......
I can now see the reason why the new wings, one wouldn't want to get misidentified as one of these none flying type chappies leaving the gate at Waddo...
I can now see the reason why the new wings, one wouldn't want to get misidentified as one of these none flying type chappies leaving the gate at Waddo...
Weird isn't it, kicking up a stink over unmanned aircraft dropping bombs on folks, but not complaining about manned ones dropping bombs on folks......
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I bet Group Captain Gillespie is happy that this lot have appeared on his Manor ...
Probably about time for the Fire Section to undertake their Hose Drills I think
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Probably about time for the Fire Section to undertake their Hose Drills I think
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"Probably about time for the Fire Section to undertake their Hose Drills I think 
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+100
Or a herd of escaped cows running rampant
"+100
Or a herd of escaped cows running rampant
killing by Remote Control is a Nazi trait simply brought up to date...
These whackos have obviously never hear of the Wickersham Land Torpedo then! It was designed by the Americans and used in 1917 in the trenches. It was a small remote controlled tank packed with explosives - it would be guided to a trench and then detonated outside of sight to kill the enemy and open the trench.
Bl00dy peace protesters make me angry at times; ill informed, no common sense and totally unrealistic. Give them a trip to Afghanistan to protest for peace at the next Taleban Shura - with a clause that SF won't stand up to rescue them. Problem solved me thinks...
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The camp was started by a nutty old lady who used to live at Greenham Common. Her tirades in the local paper are in the same vein as her banner - comparing the RPAS to a V1 and operated by Nazis. Her arguments are ill founded, ill informed and full of vitriol. (No surprise there).
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Must have been snorting Afghanistan's major export, because last time I looked it certainly wasn't oil rich..
The list of remote control weapons platforms is endless...
Ahhhh Greenham Common, that explains it, she probably see's these as upmarket Cruise Missiles, I fondly remember the time they were all asleep inside their teepee's and some kind passing motorist pulled up and slung a large supply of fishing maggots into their abode
It's the legitimate Spotters and the man and a van trying to run a food establishment I feel sorry for, having their peaceful pleasure ruined by a bunch of barking mad loons...
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The list of remote control weapons platforms is endless...
Ahhhh Greenham Common, that explains it, she probably see's these as upmarket Cruise Missiles, I fondly remember the time they were all asleep inside their teepee's and some kind passing motorist pulled up and slung a large supply of fishing maggots into their abode
It's the legitimate Spotters and the man and a van trying to run a food establishment I feel sorry for, having their peaceful pleasure ruined by a bunch of barking mad loons...
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God, I hope those protesters don't hang around too close to the nuclear weapons storage and testing facility there. They probably don't realise how dangerous the radiation levels get when they're loading the weapons with all that plutonium. Someone should tell them, surely?
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Wensleydale ...
I believe this is the person to which you refer ...
Read the latest rantings and ravings from the misguided here ...
RAF Waddington Direct Action Station
Drone Wars Peace Camp RAF Waddington
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The camp was started by a nutty old lady who used to live at Greenham Common
I believe this is the person to which you refer ...
Read the latest rantings and ravings from the misguided here ...
RAF Waddington Direct Action Station
Drone Wars Peace Camp RAF Waddington
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I hope they don't ban the Station personnel from talking to them etc, they did that to the CND / ban the bomb lot at Lossie, and on the way back after a few Sherberts I noticed a load of the guys in there having a party... Of course with the strict orders in place one felt one had to simply join in 
Well I dunno, it gives me a sort of comfy feeling that this lot are there. Admittedly its going to cause a few headaches at Waddington, but nothing they can't deal with, I'm sure. We've had this sort of thing for the last 50 years or so, what with the CND marches, Greenham, the camp outside the Trident base at Faslane, and so on.
The fact that they are allowed to be there waving their admittedly looney banners is supposed to be what this country is all about, what the guys (of both sexes) inside the wire are defending.
L-J is absolutely right - they wouldnt be allowed to protest for 5 minutes in Afghanistan - and 100 other countries you might list, but I'm glad that we still live in a country where people can express their views, no matter how distasteful they are (and yes I do believe they are distasteful).
The fact that they are allowed to be there waving their admittedly looney banners is supposed to be what this country is all about, what the guys (of both sexes) inside the wire are defending.
L-J is absolutely right - they wouldnt be allowed to protest for 5 minutes in Afghanistan - and 100 other countries you might list, but I'm glad that we still live in a country where people can express their views, no matter how distasteful they are (and yes I do believe they are distasteful).