"Tommy" was a pejorative, belittling term the Germans used in WWI/II, especially when they, the "Tommies", bombed their asses back to stone age. "Der Tommy wartet nicht" ............ The Tommy doesn´t wait .........like we must organize and prepare our air defenses. ht...

Perhaps if you did less baiting, then you might get more "nice and informative" answers.

Concur

Synthetic aperture

Happy birthday

Have a good one NK

Neat, I've ordered 3

Fad

As long as it's not an ejaculation seat ...

At least you come before you go

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Lister

Isn't "overshoot" a landing term that is based on a touchdown point , and "overrun" the more correct term for running off the end? I know it doesn't matter to our technically unsavvy media, but hey, this is AD.info! We have standards! You mean like an ejector seat is actually an...

As Princess Leis says, it is to gauge the damage caused by flak. It is common to offer up a prototype or pre production airframe for such tests.

The mechanis is manually opening and closing the starter valve which introduces air to the starter.

What is the normal actuating mechanism for the valve? Electric solenoid?

Normally a solenoid.

Robert, I think in your zeal to defend either the jolly British Lightning or this particular operation or both, you're overlooking ITS' greater point, which I think is that both Thunder City and other similar outfits use these aircraft in a manner they were never designed for. These are weapons sys...

I agree with you el, they do have a very good reputation I guess if you overlook the ground based flameout, ejection seat maintenance, inflight fire, death of a pilot due to the aforementioned while selling rides in unmaintained aircraft to weird old dudes . That is the concensus of the vast majori...

Thanks el, that will come in handy

I agree with you el, they do have a very good reputation

Interesting Charles. The reason for the flame out isn't very clear it doesn't have to be the fuel control units. The failure to start the engines could have been a number unrelated reasons. 1. Failure of the avpin starters due to high ambient temperature 2. Avpin tank empty, there is only enough for...

http://www.caa.co.za/resource%20center/ ... ZU-BEX.pdf
Preliminary report.

I'm not sure the presence of snow for a few days is the definitive proof or otherwise of climate change by the actions of man. However I do remember being told by one of my school teachers in the 70's that the next ice age was underway because a patch of snow on Snowdonia didn't melt one summer. Th...

and as you have already noticed, both were played by Roger Moore.

Well, his eyebrow to be precise.

Volvo P-1800, also known as James Bond's car from the time when James Bond was known as Simon Templar, the Saint.

James Bond was never known as The Saint.
Roger Moore on the other hand..........

It's been done before.
http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/homeward ... urney.html

That last one is just downright ridiculous