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Forum: Military Aviation

5th May 2011, 22:42

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

Obi Wan Russell

Many thanks for the correct info on the Ark saga, there's nothing quite like having a mixture of historical fact from multiple origins, mixed with a layer of wikipedia style 'facts' and then twisted...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd May 2011, 11:03

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

Ark Royal etc. ...........

From recent memory of a thread somewhere, the Queen Mary, prewar, requested that the carrier being built and named after her, be named 'Ark Royal' instead, which was done. This I believe would have...

Forum: Military Aviation

19th Oct 2010, 11:29

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

I would say that the only reason the two CV's are...

I would say that the only reason the two CV's are still going ahead is due to political considerations - if they are cancelled, the shipbuilding industry in the North and Scotland will suffer a...

Forum: Military Aviation

18th Oct 2010, 16:50

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

Modern Elmo

Now this is a fine example of taking matters a little too seriously, the response to Green Knight was made in the form of lighthearted banter, maybe any odd elements of truth may have rung a bell...

Forum: Military Aviation

18th Oct 2010, 13:41

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

Greenknight

Yes, but it works, does it not, just look at the record ......

You produce massive carriers, full of British ideas and designs.
You buy our Harrier, the only working VTOL fighter, and now...

Forum: Military Aviation

18th Oct 2010, 04:40

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Posted By Entaxei

ONB

Well that does sound very interesting, What & When & How spring to mind, but I guess all will be revealed on Thursday, unless of course its an element that will be explained later?. Maybe its a...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Oct 2010, 21:18

Replies: 7,467

Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

But if its the ginger one, that means we've got...

But if its the ginger one, that means we've got Black Adder wandering around somewhere. As an additional element of surprise that has not been catered for, this can only mean that 'The Review' will...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Oct 2010, 15:39

Replies: 7,467

Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

DZ (please excuse the familiarity)

The master plan was not designed to go into the nitty gritty detail, thats for the civil service level to meet & discuss, as often as found to be required given that the time available is only a few...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Oct 2010, 14:12

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

The Royal Navy was not built on ships called...

The Royal Navy was not built on ships called Betty and Chuck, shades of Micheal Crawford and McDonalds, they can crawl back to wherever they came from. :rolleyes:

The CV's Queen Elizabeth II and...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Oct 2010, 11:00

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

Comments aside

The abbreviation of PoW for the Prince of Wales, strikes me as one which should be dropped - surely we can do better than that - i.e. Invince; Lusty; etc..

Ok so we have a CV with no aircraft,...

Forum: Military Aviation

29th Sep 2010, 21:36

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Future Carrier (Including Costs)

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Posted By Entaxei

Missing element?

With all the statistics, estimates, performance figures of various options, etc., it seems to me that one area of vital political importance is being ignored. What is the impact in personal,...

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