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Originally Posted by Big_D
BoJo did not like the grey colour and decided to change it by spending a lot of money during the economic meltdown era. Not sure if this counts as 'leftist propoganda".
But at least the Guardian would have been happy...
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Certainly does, TEEEJ. I wondered initially about a bit of wind-blown FOD, but that’s certainly come off the airframe.
Just seen the beast on the pan at Brize, looking a little incongruous alongside its counterparts. The livery is a bit too bright for my liking, much better to have gone for a lower key, more classic design IMO. Looks like a LoCo/BA knock-off.
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Not much more to say than that , I concur. Pretty poor for a country which promotes its creative skills companies "as being some of the best in the world".
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Mr Mac
Not much more to say than that , I concur. Pretty poor for a country which promotes its creative skills companies "as being some of the best in the world".
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Originally Posted by Downwind.Maddl-Land
Was the airframe in for a scheduled maintaintence check ('C', 'D' or otherwise - would be nice to know!), that would have included a re-paint?
That the maintenance check would have been included in the Airtanker contract? ie, the cost of the check did not increase the cost to the taxpayer, other than, perhaps, the fee for the design.
Landed at a secret Oxfordshire base at about 1058A. Interesting to see that FlightRadar24 has an up-to-date picture of it in all its red-white-and-blue-ness
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Or more likely a cynical publicity stunt to counter the adverse publicity-be interesting to see how often the aircraft is flown in the AAR role-not holding my breath!
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Originally Posted by ScouseFlyer
Or more likely a cynical publicity stunt to counter the adverse publicity-be interesting to see how often the aircraft is flown in the AAR role-not holding my breath!
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Originally Posted by ScouseFlyer
Or more likely a cynical publicity stunt to counter the adverse publicity-be interesting to see how often the aircraft is flown in the AAR role-not holding my breath!
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Indeed, and I recall seeing pictures of it on a North Sea towline the day after it arrived back at Brize from Marshalls. As it's an aircraft in the core fleet, ought we not to expect it to fly its share of daily tasking as the engineers manage the fleet as a whole? And as to publicity stunts, the main media fuss has passed on with the only sustained interest being shown here.
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Originally Posted by ScouseFlyer
Or more likely a cynical publicity stunt to counter the adverse publicity-be interesting to see how often the aircraft is flown in the AAR role-not holding my breath!
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The rest of the ill informed guff spouted on the rest of this thread is an example of why i rarely post now. What happened to the days when the Mods removed posts that clearly had nothing to do with Military Aviation? This thread for a start would be at best 5 pages long.
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What happened to the days when the Mods removed posts that clearly had nothing to do with Military Aviation?
What happened to the days when the Mods removed posts that clearly had nothing to do with Military Aviation?
Or am I wrong?
TT - keeping well, I trust?
