Another Watchkeeper down
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Another Watchkeeper down
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rus-crash.html
Whoops....
And to keep this thread vaguely on topic as the Mil History forum I wonder what it had for lunch?
Whoops....
And to keep this thread vaguely on topic as the Mil History forum I wonder what it had for lunch?
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
Direct quote from the article:
"The aerial surveillance platform has been beset by problems and has seen the budget spiral from £800m to more than £1.4 million."
That's about what you would expect from the source.
"The aerial surveillance platform has been beset by problems and has seen the budget spiral from £800m to more than £1.4 million."
That's about what you would expect from the source.
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A dead Watchkeeper, does that make it tikka tokka Timex then?
It makes you wonder when it cannot fly in all weathers in Europe as to the point off it all.
It makes you wonder when it cannot fly in all weathers in Europe as to the point off it all.
£30m for a model aircraft 
Seriously 
Seriously
Or some external source?
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To be sure a spiral has, within its definition, the fact that it traces a locus that's forever getting further away from (or indeed nearer to) the starting point, so perhaps that's what they mean
...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying
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Pedantic I know, but if you look at a spiral it's a lot like a circle in that it goes in all directions, so if costs were "spiraling" they'd be oscillating between going up and down (amongst other repeated changes)
To be sure a spiral has, within its definition, the fact that it traces a locus that's forever getting further away from (or indeed nearer to) the starting point, so perhaps that's what they mean
...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying
To be sure a spiral has, within its definition, the fact that it traces a locus that's forever getting further away from (or indeed nearer to) the starting point, so perhaps that's what they mean
...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying
Google is your friend
spiral
/ˈspʌɪrəl/adjective
/ˈspʌɪrəl/adjective
- 1.winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either round a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone:"a spiral pattern"
- 1.a spiral curve, shape, pattern, or object:"a spiral of smoke"
- 2.a progressive rise or fall of prices, wages, etc., each responding to an upward or downward stimulus provided by a previous one:"an inflationary spiral"
helix
/ˈhiːlɪks/noun
/ˈhiːlɪks/noun
- 1.an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase.
- 2.the rim of the external ear.
