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LN Strike Eagle wrote:
Sun 21 Aug 2022, 6:23 pm
Anyone know the story with the USMC Harrier?
163423, or at least the mortal remains thereof. Lots of other bits and pieces used to make an AV-8 out of it, including what Demobbed describe as a "replica cockpit".

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Thanks.
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Tommy wrote:
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If we could have another one flying over here, at Chard, that would be nice.

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its a Mangusta with a new roof!
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It's Mangustarer

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Better image of it:



It’s gross, I love it.

Those are some awfully large transparencies. The pilot and particularly the gunner will be feeling a bit exposed!

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KC-46 continues to have high profile problems/embarrassments.

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And it had a pretty paint job in the tail! Woops.

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Things seem to just keep going wrong for the KC-46 program. Still, the Pegasus crew at RIAT clearly took a moment to ensure not too many people become concerned about its development, crossing out 'the development of this system has experienced issues and is currently subject to a redesign' on the display board and replacing it with 'it's fine'. :thinking:

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Professor_M wrote:
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Things seem to just keep going wrong for the KC-46 program. Still, the Pegasus crew at RIAT clearly took a moment to ensure not too many people become concerned about its development, crossing out 'the development of this system has experienced issues and is currently subject to a redesign' on the display board and replacing it with 'it's fine'. :thinking:
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Lest any Boeing suits come along and get embarrassed, haha.

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Always cool to see a European design break it into the US military.

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According to the translation, Col. Oksanchenko has been posthumously awarded the Order of the Golden Star (given to his wife and daughter) and the same to Major Stephan Čobanu (given to his wife), according to the above.

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Very poor indictment of the MRH/NH-90.

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Relating to the current B-52 deployment at Fairford :
https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/en/news/2 ... rn-sweden/
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Proof that "just putting some colour on it" is, in fact, not always a good idea.

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Agreed. For some reason I’m getting ATAK (or whichever outfit it is) Kfir vibes.

Anyway, separately, SIAF saw the last of the Slovak MiG-29s. They’re being donated to Ukraine.


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NASA's live feed for the Artemis1 mission :

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Today's launch is scrubbed. they have an engine bleed issue on main engine 3.
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Edited 'cos Ian beat me to it ( not for the first time )
Link for NASA feed should still be good for the next attenpt.
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Sorry Brev, your right on Nasa Tv they will cover the next try, I guessed they would not go they had 2 issues about 4 hours ago, solved one but could not sort the second one, they have left the rocket fuelled so they can continue to try to suss the problem.
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I'll admit to being cynical about the delay at first, simply because AF2 and another plane ( which wasn't displaying a callsign, regn. or hex code ) both rocked up there after the earliest launch time.
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