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@Xenomorphine No, that's a bit of creative accounting. And while they're bound to fix some of the 22's problems, the chief designer of the F-16 thinks it'll never really come good because it involves too many design trade-offs.

@southparkfan2717 Not really. 'Stealth' works best head-on. Typhoons hunting F-22s fly a wide formation so the 22 can't be head-on to all of them. One gets a paint on the quarter-profile or IR jet-plume and either attacks or datalinks the info to another Typhoon in a better attack position. The 2...

I meant, of course, 50-odd years ago, circa 1960.

@D1983r I suppose the difference is that the Indians' limited use of radar was an agreed part of the exercise (it was the same when they exercised with the RAF) whereas 'not fully stealthed', though presumably true - an aircraft is never stealthed when it uses its radar, after all - was something...

@Warpath2198 It didn't happen on a Red Flag. British Typhoons have their own 'platform inter-operability' trials with the USAF (for which the Typhoons are usually based out of NAS China Lake) and it happened on one of those. The USAF maintained that it sort of didn't count because F-22s are never...

@Pinkforestt Well, no, because she actually served three years eleven days for a crime she did commit, slander (with another slander trial scheduled for next year), and the rest of it was time served on remand. So there were no 'four years for a crime she didn't commit.'

@kbad73 See Bone in Action by Lou Drendel, Squadron Signal Publications, Carrollton TX, 2002. Drendel flew co-pilot on a B-1 training mission and spoke to or corresponded with a number of B-1 flight crew to research the book. The B-1 holds a world 200-tonne time-to-height record of 9.42 to 39,370...

@SmileChicky It's 'Will you marry me, Uncle Ray?' - that being Ray O'Sullivan's real name and that being what his god-daughter Clair used to say to him. She is a real living person and it's her laughter you hear at the end of the track. You're an idiot.

@czarymary5 Well, Britain and the US did secure a treaty agreement that Stalin would allow free elections in Poland and then pull out. He broke his word, of course, infuriating Truman and starting the Cold War. It mattered to the Allies, and Allied aircraft flew suicidal missions to drop food, we...

@kolbpilot It was Alex Henshaw, chief test pilot for the Vickers 'shadow factory' in Birmingham, who used to roll every Lanc off the production line as part of his standard check flight. He put a glove on top of the instrument panel as a g-meter - when the glove barely lifted off, he knew he was ...

@999duhast Yes, sadly the crazyheads on each side keep the crazyheads on the other side in business, they need each other because without conflict they'd lose their whole reason for being, so the sane people on both sides have to try and work around them. Not easy.

Some wonky comments down there. This wasn't deliberate, Sqn Ldr Matt Elliott inverted for the loop at the wrong angle and altitude. But after that, his judgement (like not panicking, and not lighting the burners till he was nose-up) was spot-on, and so was the Typhoon - not many aircraft could re...

@LottoWinner999 You are obviously under the age of twelve, little boy, so perhaps I shouldn't really say this, but ... I'm afraid Americans like you are simply living proof that the Indians fucked buffalo. There are loads of you all over the Net giving your country a bad name and you really shoul...

Marvellous edit - almost a biography. Hope she's seen it.

@Suxarix Max Edie, known to her friends as Lizard, shared a flat in Chelsea with one of the band and just got roped in.

@zzzed55 'The series was conceived to make it appear that our hero was striving to be completely free, "utterly himself". Too much of that and society would be overrun by rampant extremists and there would be anarchy. The intention was satirical. Be as free as possible within our situation, but t...

@ColtDeltaElite10mm You're not in the USAF. During Desert Storm, the USAF allowed a British exchange pilot to fly combat missions over Baghdad in the F-117 Stealth. They wouldn't even let US Navy pilots near that thing, or any other pilots in the world - only the RAF. Tornado losses were due to t...

@Wonkabar007 Mm... but in the 1985 NATO fighter trials against Concorde (to prove capability against the Soviet Tu-160 Blackjack) the F-14 could not make the intercept. Nor could the F-15 or F-16. No NATO fighter could. Except for, what was it now, I forget, it'll come to me in a minute... Oh yea...

@Milewskige Well, I passed her in the street some years ago and she must have been 50-something and looking about 25 and I smiled so wide my head nearly fell in half and she flicked me a look like, 'Yeah, I know, I get that all the time.'

@pierstheoneandonly There was nothing doing in the British film industry back then except sex, horror and Bond. So you find great character actors like Le Mesurier, and wonderful leading actresses like Gaby Drake, in these, um, cheesy films. And Val Guest was a considerable director - he made Hel...

@McPigskin What he, or she, means is that the song works as a song, not just as a memory blast for people who remember it the first time around - the age being relevant for that exact reason.

@wannos27 Hood was not the flagship. King George V was the flagship. And a few days later, with her fuel fouled by a shot from Prince of Wales and her rudder bent by an air strike from Ark Royal, Bismarck was caughty by KG5 and, far worse, Rodney. Bismarck got the first shot in and missed. Rodney...

@MrDOLLAH56 Unfortunately, Yusuf Islam publicly called for the murder of the novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989. He's since denied this, but I saw and heard him on live TV. At that time he also wanted to destroy all records of his music, Taliban-style. To his credit, he's cleaned up his act lately. ...

@justsnappy It's Oxygene Part 4 by Jean Michel Jarre from 1977.

@rhblakeman It is confusing, though, two missiles both called Falcon (and both made by Hughes, weren't they?), one a standard-issue but fairly useless weapon and the other, seen here, a hula-hula sci-fi monster that gave rise to the Phoenix. But if it's all right to say so from a Nato power acros...

@FLSHBK1 Way to go. The RAF did recruit directly in Canada and some Yanks did go that route. Fighter or Coastal seem likely as there is just that one Kenneth (William) Owen in Bomber Command Losses. The Eagles are so famous their websites may include the ops record books (like Sgt Owen's Lanc squ...