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?

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.

I will guess either a Gullburger or a FODburger. :uhoh:
(I love that it floats. Also, hopefully the investigation team get a good read on what caused the crash).

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 got dizzy

£30m for a model aircraft :confused::confused::confused: Seriously :eek:

Not the aircraft as such, rather the equipment on board.

Or some external source?

I worked with the airframe maker some years ago and they were grateful for the somewhat regular replacement work....

There's something odd about that photo of it floating in the water. Where are the sensor turrets?

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

:confused:

...at least they didn't say spiral when they meant helix. That's really annoying

Maybe they did mean helix; like, you know, a spiral staircase.

A spiral is a 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. However, in this case spiral is a progressive rise or fall of prices, wages, etc., each responding to an upward or downward stimulus provided by a previous one as in "an inflationary spiral". Now who's being pedantic!! ;)

Google is your friend

Considering the forum, I’m surprised that no one has mentioned ’spiral dive’!

Death spiral may be a more appropriate term.