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@BlickyIan @Osinttechnical @SanGrownUn1 I got the ticket...(82).. I need cruise control/autothrottle!..

@Vee1Rotate @Osinttechnical @SanGrownUn1 sorry to hear that - fingers crossed they don't send you a ticket - personally I'd have sent the B1Bs on an alternative target ... on a motorway in Glos ..:)

RAF Fairford spotters watching a USAF B-1 head out on an Iran strike mission 📷Paul Nicholls

@BlickyIan @Osinttechnical @SanGrownUn1 I went last week (afternoon). 4hr drive, got there in pouring rain and only saw ground crews getting them ready. Oh - and got a speeding ticket on the way..(mobile camera on the motorway in Gloucestershire). Total disaster of a day.

@Osinttechnical @SanGrownUn1 Would it best to go am or pm - asking for a friend 🤣

@femmenart I sat in the staff room at work, reading the book, with ugly tears.. I was so invested in Rocky. The movie did well - the book is fantastic.

just watched Project Hail Mary and I Believe there is a good in this world worth fighting for

@nexta_tv Frankly, I'm amazed that any country allows Russian tourists entry. They should be banned everywhere as a security risk.

A video of a Russian woman being beaten in Thailand has surfaced online — the footage shows her attacking first. The exact date the video was filmed is still unknown.

@astro_jaz Jut got home from a late showing at the cinema. Loved it - though, having read the book (and therefore knowing the full story), the emotions were different.

yes i’m seeing the movie in an hour. yes i just finished the book. yes i cried.

@scottiebateman Used to love landing the Dash 8 like that - you could really dig the wing in - the Dash 8 loved crosswinds and wet runways..

This video has been doing the rounds today. Many saying the landing was scary and the pilot would be getting a coffee-less chat with their Chief Pilot. None of these people know what they’re talking about!! High winged aircraft use a different crosswind landing technique when compared to other airliners. They fly using a ‘wing down’ technique and not one where the aircraft flies nose into wind. This technique means that often the upwind wing is lower than downwind, and the upwind main gear often touches down first. In my view, and I’ve done a few of these, this is a text book wing down landing. Good job. #aviation #pilotlife #pilot #FactsNotClickbait

Corporal Bone Spurs...

@MCCCANM Works well on the Dash 8 - got told off for doing it in the 737...!

On the 737 NG, a trick to stop “floating” (not touching down & going too long) is to bank & try to get the right main landing gear to touch. When it does, the spoilers on the wing deploy, cutting lift & setting you down. Has to be the right, the left doesn’t do it. Doesn’t work on the MAX, which requires both gear to touch.

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

@almurray @Airfix I love Airfix - they're a national institution. But..they're leaning heavily towards 1/48 these days, and I only build in God's scale - 1/72...

Be still my beating heart @Airfix #Shagbat #IamTheWalrus

@nicholadrummond I'd rather have several more Typhoon squadrons, a larger, ether equipped army and a Navy that actually has teeth. Oh - and a procurement system that actually works. We have very little GBAD, and no real mass - and massive vanity projects like Tempest are just not necessary.

One of the most significant reductions in UK capabilities since the end of the Cold War was the retirement of Vulcan and Victor long-range, large-payload strike aircraft. Numerous situations since 1990 would have benefited from the employment of a bomber if we had retained them. In the unlikely event that the USA offered to sell the B-21 to its allies via expanded production, the cost per aircraft would be around $750 million - double the anticipated cost of GCAP / Tempest. Two B-21 squadrons or 24 aircraft would be around $18 billion. With an intercontinental range and the ability to carry a nuclear payload, the B-21 is the apex predator of strategic power projection. But is it worth it? I would be interested to know what RAF seniors think.

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@BlickyIan Agreed - everything is tied in - military tech, banking, Google, Windows... But the US system isn't just Trump - and whilst Krasnov wants to dismantle NATO for his Russian masters, I don't think that the wider US system will allow it - they do see the value of European allies.

@Vee1Rotate NATO would be crippled without the US - I think they would have to form a new Alliance ? And for all those nations operating the F-35 it could be a problem

Well we are now fucked - totally as the US will I expect pull back from NATO or out all together - so when RAF mildenhall and Lakenheath relocate to the USA that's a huge amount of jobs about to vanish in Norfolk / Suffolk

In all the tragedy happening in the world, there are moments that make me genuinely happy. An Irish PM defending the British PM from attacks by the US President, and then turning to show solidarity with Ukraine. This is European solidarity at its finest. Honor to the Irish 🇮🇪.

Just to get it straight. Donald Trump has: - threatened Canada (a NATO member) with invasion - threatened to occupy Greenland (part of Denmark, a NATO member) - announced several times that he wants to leave NATO - refused to support Ukraine, even though the United States gave security assurances to Ukraine in the Budapester Memorandum of 1994 - actively finances Putin‘s war against Ukraine by easing sanctions against Russia - denied that soldiers from European countries have ever supported the United States and thereby - spitting on the legacy of fallen European soldiers who supported U.S. operations - imposed witless tariffs on its allies - insulted the leaders of allied countries over the past months And now he wonders why not everyone comes running when he calls. The situation in the Strait of Hormuz is a mess for the whole world. But Donald Trump himself is responsible for this geopolitical chaos.

@KyivIndependent I'd like to send thoughts and prayers on his upcoming diagnosis of window cancer..

⚡️'No region can feel safe' — former Russian Defense Minister raises alarm over Ukrainian drone strikes. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-dron…

@haynesdeborah This gives Trump his casus belli to undermine NATO further - the task he was set by his Russian masters...

Donald Trump says his call for help from NATO to protect tankers through the Strait of Hormuz was a test of his allies and indicates that they failed - which surely calls into new doubt whether Trump would defend his allies if Russia launches an Article 5 attack It must also call into question future US support for Ukraine - which would be very problematic as the UK-France-led "coalition of the willing" following any ceasefire with Russia relies heavily on the presumption of American involvement to be credible Here's what Trump said in the White House when asked what kind of response he'd received from allies about helping to defend the Strait from Iranian attacks. Trump: "They [NATO] don't want to help us... We don't need help... "I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake. "I have long said that I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So this was a great test. "We do not need them but they should have been there. "The other thing, very important, we did not have to be there for Ukraine..." A bit more: Trump: "I am disappointed in NATO. We spend trillions of $s on NATO. When they don't help us, it is certainly something we should think about."

@NOELreports Trumps response is the usual classless drivel..

Trump's National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent resigned over the Iran war, the first Trump administration official to do so. "I cannot in good conscience support the war in Iran," Kent wrote. "Iran posed no direct threat to our country, and it is clear we started this war under pressure from Israel and its influential American lobby." Trump responded by calling Kent "weak on security" and his departure "a good thing." "Iran was a huge threat, every country understood that. We don't need people like that." #Iran