I started the hobby fully in about 2002 and from memory cannot think of any stateside A-10s in the UK between then and now. Regarding the future I want to be wrong, very much so!

Very, very sad to see my favourite aircraft type leave Europe. Probably never ever see another in Britain.

SHARFA2 wrote:Shan't even mention my favourite subject of converting Harriers from GR7 to GR9 and the £££££millions spent on that!!

I agree, or the Jaguar from GR1 to GR3 and then....

There's a flight of A-10's heading over the UK for Lajes, which are the first Spangdahlem A-10's heading home Very sad indeed. The end of an era. It was the A-10s from Bentwaters/Woodbridge of the 81st TFW in the early 1980s which got me hooked on military aircraft from a young age. Seeing them fly...

Rory76 wrote:Antiques Roadshow from RAF Marham tonight. Hope the clowns Cameron, Osborne and Hammond weren't there, don't want to tune in and discover they've auctioned off the rest of the RAF.....

Maybe the squadrons were getting their aircraft valued

The more Tories vote for UKIP, the greater chance there is of Labour getting in! Go For It Chaps! Combined the Conservative party and Labour party have ruined this country, they have betrayed those in the military repeatedly with never ending cuts yet more and more wars. Neither of them are fit to ...

I would say they are the only party worth voting for. The mainstream parties are now worthless. All they have managed to do over the past 50 years is sit back and allow this country to decline. Due to their collective total failure I feel another party deserves a chance.

Interesting piece on UKIP defence policy:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdT0drUghio

It is a 15 minute video by Will Gilpin who used to serve on the Tornado F-3.

Brilliant photos. I would love to be in your country and see such amazing aircraft.

Come on guys leave the politics and the economics to The Economist site - Lets talk planes!!!! Thats what this site is about! Yes your right, I always get sucked into political arguments with just about anyone;) I guess we will have to agree to differ as can't see us changing our views from anythin...

Going back to the point of their economy. Their economy will implode over time ! On a trully massive scale. It will make this recession look like a happy 1930's. They have poured money into their's which makes any western nations quantitive easing look like slipping pennys into a piggy bank. Just o...

That is a disturbing, and misguided view. I am sorry, but you are talking like a communist. Someone who has been 'sucked into' the ideals and ideas of a nation such as China. They get results by threats, torcher and near slavery. That is not something to be proud of. Well all I can say is none of m...

A really forward thinking country with possibly the most capable goverment on Earth. OK! I'll assume you know how the Chinese economy is being falsly kept 'bouyant' and what it has aproximately cost to do so? How the Government is run ? I'll also assume you have visited China and its people very we...

A really forward thinking country with possibly the most capable goverment on Earth. Really? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18993615 http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-china Those lovely, cuddly Communists can sure build a nice shiny new fighter though, can't they? T...

Very impressive. With all the money they have got combined with the speed at which they can build they truely are a rising superpower. Give it a decade or two and they will be the most powerful country on Earth by far. One has to admire them and the way have grown over the past decades. It really is...

Amazing photos. The French always make their aircraft look great. The Rafale is mouth watering!

Fantastic photos. So sad to see Cambrai closed, the same for Reims. It really is the end of an era. So many good aircraft and bases have gone. Sadly don't think I will be having as many trips to France anymore.

Apparently the lights are invisible to the naked eye.... as I,ve mentioned,we saw this clip some time ago on a programme that was out to prove it could be faked... bearing in mind its 'invisible' we thought the observer conveniently looked for the 'aircraft' when it was well out of the field of vie...

I found this on youtube last week, there is the odd other one of the same aircraft aswell.

This one is not as clear:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0GWT0LsNxc

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoR0izkByAI[/youtube]

! How NCC could hold a referendum for the local people who would be affected by the incinerator, who then overwhelmingly vote against it, only for NCC to completely ignore them... What happened to democracy and the vote? Off topic, but because referendums in the UK are non-binding, meaning they are...

Nice! I like it. It's like the Norwegians but a lot darker. You're wrong young Macc, it's horrid The only thing I find horrid is the F-35 reference. Ghastly machine. I never used to like the F-22 but do now. The F-35, maybe it will grow on me;) I think the Typhoon is ghastly looking but maybe it wi...

I have never in my life seen such a complicated or insane way to run an airshow. Best of luck to those of you who are going.

I can foresee a problem with that plan. If there is a problem which necessitates the temporary grounding of a particular type while investigations take place, the country would be left without any front line fast jets for a time. Don't they pay people to think of these things? Belgium, Holland, Den...

There is an article in Janes Defence Weekly this week that explains what the F-35/Typhoon fleet will look like as detailed by "MoD sources". Typhoon There will now be 7 operational squadrons plus OCU and OEU (9 units in all), tranche 1 aircraft won't be retired and will be upgraded plus t...