Nah, Chinook base is Odious.

Whatever, what's done is done, it'll blow over. When does he go to sea? His first run ashore should produce some spectacular drivel.

Isn't it amazing how many folks BELIEVE every word that is printed as "Gospel" .... a whole thread devoted to discussing a press report without a single proven fact...

so lets send out a single sentence and build a complete fabrication around it .. and if we use the "royal connection" then all the mugs will believe it.

What a waste of time .. must be a "slow day" in the press world.

William etc.
 

Goudie. Silly, but damaging nevertheless.

Err...what sort of hands-on experience are you talking about? Hands-on strippers? :E

Should MoD PR et al have any common sense then will give this story the attention it deserves and ignore it. Apart from a few rabid anti-royalists this story will have have slipped off the national psyche but about, ooh, six this evening... I can't believe that so many supposedly educated people on these forums can be so seduced by the utter toilet that is printed by the tabloids.

Oh and can you droids stop twatting on about Afghanistan etc etc? How many times do you need it drilled into your thick skulls - aircraft have to stay in the UK so people can train on them. I suppose Odious could've used that 2 hr slot to strip, pack, ship to Afg, reassemble, operate, strip and then reship home again in time for the next wave. :rolleyes:

If you do feel the need to saddle up your amply-legged equine transport then how's about you actually get onto the Govt on the real issue that's crippling us - lack of spares and engineers to fit them. Somebody tooling about in one of our trg aircraft for 2 hrs affects the price of fish not one iota.

When we start melting down railings and saucepans to make Spitfires then perhaps I too might display some mild angst but until that time can you people stop being such bloody drama queens.

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Right, back to the plastering.........

Spot the odd one out

Chap from motoring programme gets a jolly in a Typhoon.

Another chap from same motoring programme races a Typhoon in a sports car.

Weather woman gets a trip with Red Arrows.

Chap from another BBC programme gets a trip in a Typhoon.

Chap who's Granny owns the train set gets to go on a training trip in a Chinook


Didnt hear the press moaning about the others did we ???

Nick, it most certainly was. And the Germans were bombing London. Personally I don't believe we've got ourselves a War of National Survival quite yet...

:zzz:

PICKS135 - the Royals are an easy target for those with an agenda, as your examples show.

Are you talking to yourself? :confused:

Well it seems the CAS is seething!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...e_id=1770&ct=5

Now THIS is much better use of the taxpayers' money...

Sea King Delivers Match Ball

What a disgusting and blatant waste of taxpayers' money. In these days of sparse resources, this helicopter should have been saving the lives of idiots on li-los, or idiots climbing mountains in PT vests, boxing gloves and roller-skates. And then there are the poor nurses in dangerous operational areas such as the Falklands. This chopper should have been giving them jollies around the islands in return for sexual favours to the crew, rather than wasting time delivering balls to a sports ground.

What a PR disaster for the RAF blah blah blah

"Details of the angry reaction emerged as the young royal came under fire for using a RAF Chinook for a second time to fit in a personal visit".

Some "personal visit". The Mail and other garbage peddlars will milk it for every drop. There is no way of avoiding "bad publicity" for the Forces from any contact with the royals. There will always be some self-styled expert who can distort the most uncontroversial activity and blow it up into a righteous indignation fest. And there is no shortage of morons who will believe anything printed, including some regrettably who post on PPrune.

I think I'll emigrate. I can't stand this bl**dy country any more.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if Torpy, instead of giving in to the attack of the media-led morons and shovelling pooh over his hard-working and dedicated subordinates, actually had the b*lls to stand up and support his people. After all, they did nothing wrong and broke no regulations. Their fault, if it is one, was to allow the self-styled experts and royal bashers to attack. If Torpy caves in, he will have allowed that attack to succeed, despite it's lack of substance. Then there will be no end to the self-destructive tail-biting by the RAF and other Services. In the end no-one will dare to put his head above the parapet in any circumstances and the b*stards will have won.

Don't expect he will though, so I'll still consider emigrating.

Is the field that was used still available for use?

From MoD's own news site ( http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...utelyVital.htm ):

Which is surely all that HRH - one day to become head of the UK's Armed Forces (if there are any left by then) - was doing?

This is an utter non-event and if all Torpy has to do is to chew the carpet over the issue, he should look in the mirror first.

oh good

:hmm:

Hmmmm....

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/c...s-20080421885/