I know there is a cohort of strong Putin supporters here, but this looks to be getting serious and his shtick might be going over for the home side, but maybe it is time for him to stop playing with matches. Lots of jaw-jaw going on at the moment as it should. Options, however, to give leverage to those talks seem limited in this scenario. Fo... Read More

How do you think the Army, Navy and the RAF Chiefs of staff are feeling after Boris agreeing to come to Sweden and Finland's aid if attacked. Are they saying this gives us a good chance of having an increased Defence budget or OMG we given most of our kit to the Ukrainians, any chance of setting the LDV again in case we're invaded by, say for argu... Read More

Firstly I would like to start off by thanking anybody who replies to this thread as in this day and age forums are one of the last few places where you can find valuable information from industry experts and people with real-world knowledge rather than YouTube, Twitter and Facebook where adults and children seem to blurt out any old rubbish about a... Read More

https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/usaf-conducts-successful-flight-test-of-arrw-hypersonic-weapon/ After a few false starts, the USAF's hypersonic missile test has had a success, from the venerable Buff. As I... Read More

There are a lot of soundings at the moment in relation to Eastern Ukraine and the possibility that Kiev Government will look to conduct a major attack on this area. In 2014 the people in this area disliked the Maidan Sq protests and did one of the own which was attacked by Kiev. As this area is populated by people with more Ethnic ties to Russia... Read More

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Or in fact it would seem the price of anything. Not so long ago Truckers were up in arms when Diesel went past .99p a litre. Now it's £1.89 a litre. No riots, no protests, nothing? Soon it will be £2 a litre. Have we just accepted our fate? Read More

[left]BBC exit poll giving Con 368 seats Lab 191 SNP 55 Lib 13 an 86 majority.. We have a couple of billboards up round here, large one for Con in the local horses field as normal, and a tiny one in a garden for Lab[/left] Read More

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I'll start with the easy ones: Overlord - Normandy Invasion Fortitude - Deception operations for Overlord Jericho - The low level attack on Amiens prison Chastise - The Dambusters raid Paravane - The several attacks on the Tirpitz in Alta Fjord Market Garden - An operation n the Netherlands aimed at reaching and crossing the Rhine Mincemeat - Anot... Read More

[QUOTE=Kiltrash;10642121]Not a Caption. Buster has gone missing; he has had the call from Goodison Park[/QUOTE] Couldn't do much worse than the last 6! :mad: Anyway...many thanks Kilty. Always an honour. Seeing we're on a theme...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10815185/RAF-probe-drunken-Red-Arrow-airman-sent-Greece-following-inappropriate-behaviour.html [QUOTE]The [url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... Read More

I know the show is called Traffic Cops in the UK but BBC changed the name here in the colonies. What I am trying to understand is it seems 50% of the time, when a car is chased and stopped, they are able to open the driver’s door with no problem. My car locks the doors when it goes over 5 mph. For that matter I manually lock the doors when... Read More

Happened today 12:30pm local time according to this report/video: https://www.airlineratings.com/news/passenger-no-idea-lands-plane-pilot-falls-ill/?fbclid=IwAR2S-JIQUCugF3... Read More

This was kept quiet for a while, article below. Doesn't look like the 787 holds up to lightning strikes as well as an aluminium hull. My experience is with metal airframes but I have been involved in assessing lightning strike damage on composite tips and flight controls, usually the copper mesh gets burnt and there are scorch marks on the composit... Read More

The following email was recently leaked to the Press, and highlights the disgusting and inexcusable prejudice that still festers in the RAF. What have 'White Males' done to deserve this? If I was a serving White Male pilot (I am an 'ex' one), I would be so disillusioned with the RAF's opinion of me as being unworthy of representing the Organization... Read More

Hi guys. Recently I am dealing with a dilemma. I have Been accepted for a FO possition on a widebody in a different company (would have to move out of the country to the middle east). Ive been flying as a FO for almost 7 years literally giving Up hope for an upgrade so started looking for a different company. So there are rumours there could be a c... Read More

Hi All! Another fresh CPL here, undertaking some more training to get rating etc. Looking for stories from people from when they started out that will show things to avoid eg dodgey things employers do. How to tell a boss you are not flying VFR into the soup how to go from Min hours flying a C182 for sky diving op's to multi charters etc.... Read More

Various reports on social media of an incident involving China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 operating flight MU5735. Some reports - unconfirmed by news sources as I type - state that the flight has supposedly crashed near Wuzhou. Read More

Is it true Virgin are flying to DPS as of June 15 ? Read More

I have just visited my parents house and they have a fairly new kitchen with new sinks. They look attractive, modern and are deep but I have realised when using them that their design is flawed and they are a simple barometer of how modern designers take well evolved concepts and ruin them in the name of "modernisation" or asthetics. Flat botto... Read More

[h1]"Crew failed to monitor speed loss before 757's aggressive manoeuvres[/h1] By David Kaminski-Morrow10 May 2022 US investigators have found that aggressive control inputs to increase poorly-monitored airspeed resulted in injuries to three flight attendants on an American Airlines Bo... Read More

Something going on over Lake Eyre as we speak. Hearing rumors of an aircraft down. Read More