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Forum: Military Aviation

19th Jun 2009, 08:52

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Operation ATALANTA

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

Operation ATALANTA

This operation - the European Union's first ever naval operation - is to provide protection for vessels of the World Food Programme delivering food aid to displaced persons in Somalia. It has been...

Forum: Military Aviation

29th Jan 2008, 09:03

Replies: 14

Military Council Tax Rebate

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

What a fudge - compare the CTax "massage" with...

What a fudge - compare the CTax "massage" with the reality. as eloquently put by a forces contributor to the BBC's "have your say" ...

"In my unit most deploy for 4 months on and 4 off. I haven't...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Nov 2007, 22:18

Replies: 11

Fingers on the Nuclear Trigger!

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

Fingers on the Nuclear Trigger!

I've just watched a Newsnight report about the security applied to our nuclear weapons, with particular reference to the Cold War days, which has left me somewhat incandescent! Having been involved...

Forum: Military Aviation

7th Nov 2007, 16:16

Replies: 39

Reported lack of SAR cover

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

Thanks for that BBC link, AIDU. Always best to...

Thanks for that BBC link, AIDU. Always best to see the facts spelled out. Just another example of the endless battle to keep ageing aircraft in the air - no change there then!

Realising I now...

Forum: Military Aviation

7th Nov 2007, 15:37

Replies: 39

Reported lack of SAR cover

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

Reported lack of SAR cover

What was that I heard on Radio 4 this morning? Something about the whole of the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire coast being without SAR cover because there wasn't one helicopter serviceable? A named Sqn Ldr...

Forum: Military Aviation

13th Aug 2007, 19:49

Replies: 42

Massed Lightning takeoff

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

Picking up the thread on massed take-offs, does...

Picking up the thread on massed take-offs, does anyone else recall the "survival scramble" at Leuchars circa 1974 when the Phantoms of 43 Sqn, the Lightnings of 23 Sqn and the Phantoms of 892 (RN)...

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Aug 2007, 19:04

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Caption competition

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Posted By Vintage_SEngO

Dan Gerus - I know you can't sing your own...

Dan Gerus - I know you can't sing your own praises, but thanks for a cracking caption that provoked a real belly-laugh. "Stop that Polish chit-chat" had everything - it was topical (polish plumbers),...

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