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Re: Queen's Flight

#41 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:50 am

We now seem to be leasing an A321. Sensible to have a short haul jet available.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... e-jet.html
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#42 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:00 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:50 am
We now seem to be leasing an A321. Sensible to have a short haul jet available.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... e-jet.html
So, another aircraft coloured like a popinjay's underpants. Straight out of an African would be despot's playbook The next stage will be when, like Zuma, Johnson gives carte blanche to a band of coolies, called, Gupta, to land at any RAF base without PPR, while corruption and state capture is the order of the day! The latter part is already underway:

David Cameron on the make again...
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#43 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:05 pm

Bloody Garudian keeping count, say I have read 36 articles in the last 12 months. Only because some kind person in ON has pointed me to selected articles.

Pay them, pah?

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#44 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:30 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:05 pm
Bloody Garudian keeping count, say I have read 36 articles in the last 12 months. Only because some kind person in ON has pointed me to selected articles.

Pay them, pah?
You dispute the truth of it?

Read what you will. There are none so blind as they say....

Think of me as a discordant note if you will, disturbing the comfort of the echo chamber! :-$
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#45 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:10 pm

TGG, I don't dispute the articles to which I am referred but the begging note when I am 'merely' reading what someone else has pointed out.
No different from me showing you an article on the Daily Scrum across a beer soaked table in the smoke room. They don't then expect me to pay for it.

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#46 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:13 pm

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:10 pm
TGG, I don't dispute the articles to which I am referred but the begging note when I am 'merely' reading what someone else has pointed out.
No different from me showing you an article on the Daily Scrum across a beer soaked table in the smoke room. They don't then expect me to pay for it.
Ah, I get where you are coming from PN! You don't need to pay, if you care to read, just accept their cookies and if the article asks just click the "later button". Unlike The Telegraph they allow you to read it all without ever subscribing. I am a subscriber to both newspapers mind, and tend to forget the vagaries of the two papers online.
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Re: Queen's Flight

#47 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:44 pm

The A330 seems to be in Athens with HRH PC and the Duchess.
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#48 Post by Rwy in Sight » Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:03 am

I am trying to locate a picture of the A330 participating on the flying part of the parade.

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#49 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:55 am

Rwy in Sight wrote:
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I am trying to locate a picture of the A330 participating on the flying part of the parade.
Not sure which A330 you are referring to RiS.
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#51 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Mar 27, 2021 5:04 am

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This is what I am thinking of
Golly surprised they chucked that over Athens for you. Bet Phil the Greek was behind it. Here you go.
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#52 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sat Mar 27, 2021 6:03 am

Unfortunately we were not allowed to be around the parade path. And air force designers changed the path and they don't overfly my place any longer.

Funny way to write the registration very unlikely to be missed!

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Re: Queen's Flight

#54 Post by llondel » Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:24 am

What are the extras hanging from the wings? Or shouldn't I ask?

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#55 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:33 am

We could tell you...but...

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Re: Queen's Flight

#56 Post by k3k3 » Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:08 am

They be the secret squirrel refuelling pods for when it has to do its day job.

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Re: Queen's Flight

#57 Post by Ex-Ascot » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:54 am

llondel wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:24 am
What are the extras hanging from the wings? Or shouldn't I ask?
Well it will have IRCM that is no secret but they do not look anything like wot we had.
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#58 Post by Boac » Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:11 am

Probably ***** dispensers.

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Re: Queen's Flight

#59 Post by k3k3 » Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:41 am

k3k3 wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:08 am
They be the refuelling pods for when it has to do its day job.

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Re: Queen's Flight

#60 Post by ian16th » Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:50 pm

k3k3 wrote:
Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:41 am
k3k3 wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:08 am
They be the refuelling pods for when it has to do its day job.
Or as we called them, 'hoodo's'!
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