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Rafale vs Typhoon @ RAF Leuchars.

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Old 23rd Apr 2013, 22:12
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Rafale vs Typhoon @ RAF Leuchars.

Just thought this was interesting;

Will we finally have a definitive answer:
-what is the best A2A fighter ?
-who does A2G best ?
-full English breakfast or baguet and croissants ?
-Last but not least, why use foggy and cold Leuchars iso warm and sunny Solenzara ?
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Originally Posted by kbrockman
Will we finally have a definitive answer:
-what is the best A2A fighter ?
-who does A2G best ?
-full English breakfast or baguet and croissants ?
-Last but not least, why use foggy and cold Leuchars iso warm and sunny Solenzara ?
full English breakfast! don't know about the others...

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"why use foggy and cold Leuchars" - golfing?
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Errr full English breakfast at Leuchars?? me thinks not, full Scottish breakfast even better some nice spicy haggis with it.
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Best breakfast at Leu - scotch pies and baked beans, during TACEVAL.

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Brockers,

Last but not least, why use foggy and cold Leuchars iso warm and sunny Solenzara
Because it's all part of Ex JOINT WARRIOR and close to the maritime action going on around the north of the UK. Lossie is full of MPA by the way (although no British ones obviously!).
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why use foggy and cold Leuchars
Because if it was done somewhere warm, sunny and pleasant it would be on the front page of The Sun/Mail about the abuse of taxpayers money as the "RAF live it up in the sun".
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Best breakfast at Leu - scotch pies and baked beans, during TACEVAL.

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You should try a scotch pie on a roll, stops your fingers getting burnt if they're just out of the oven, and stops any grease getting on your fingers
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Och, aye, Scottish breakfast, but the only place I ever got kippers at bfast was at Kinloss.
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Morrisons, the supermarket in England, sells Scotch Pies.
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Wwyvern,

In Scotland, they are called 'pies'.

And we also have Morrisons.

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why use foggy and cold Leuchars
All-weather multi-role aircraft don't have to go to sunny places to fight. I thought that was the idea.
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Originally Posted by Courtney Mil
All-weather multi-role aircraft don't have to go to sunny places to fight. I thought that was the idea.
True but than again, life is so much better under the sun,
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Two KC 10s and two C130Js at Prestwick yesterday.
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We had a female clerk who was that shape, and she wasn't pregnant
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Nice to see a brace of smart well looked after Pumas and a brace of Gazelles yesterday passing though EGNX, shame they were French though, take it they were off to play in the exercise up norf'.

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Originally Posted by Courtney Mil
All-weather multi-role aircraft don't have to go to sunny places to fight. I thought that was the idea.
All weather unless it's a bit windy, as it has been in the north of Scotland recently.

Unless of course, you were thinking about MPA that really are all weather multi-role aircraft.

..... and didn't cease flying during the 35kt sandstorms hitting Lossie last week!
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Duncan D'Sorderlee.

Just trying to be helpful for immigrants to England. Last week I dropped into "The Horn of Plenty" a roadside eatery on the road south from Dundee, and asked the Eastern European lady behind the grill for a pie. She offered me everything but a Scotch Pie. Then we found a single example cowering in the corner of the hot tray. It's taste was barely that of a newly baked Scotch Pie.

I have lived in England for many years, and used to import, for personal consumption, Scotch Pies from a specialst butcher (not supposed to advertise?) in Inverurie. They claim their product is a "Champion Scotch Pie", and I have to say they were good. Taking lunch a couple of months ago in the Victoria Services Club with an ex-Canberra pilot who used to live in Aberdeenshire, he advised me of the Morrison's link. They also are good.

I have no financial interests in Morrisons. Back to the subject, perhaps?
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So you DIDN'T have the world champion bacon roll then
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My local bakers used to do in house Jock pies them before they shut up shop , M and S do them too I believe.

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