Derk

Thanks, grea t site !!

Ever saw a MiG 17 spinning into the ground in front of your Tiger Moth...... ???

Very good news, a great tribute to a very impressive jet !!! One must have seen an airshow demo by a Viggen to believe what it can do !!!!!

OMG...............

KGB slow indeed......

New name: OMG.......

Miaaaaooowww , rejoining......

VERY pretty !!!

Sir, I have said this before in these forums, but I am afraid it is getting more urgent now: although nothing is officially known yet, there will be huge spending reductions in the Netherland in order to comply with the rules on deficit of the European Union. Of course, one of the first possibilities is Defence. My estimate is that Leeuwarden AB is going to be closed and at least 2 squadrons of F 16's will be disbanded. Ergo: anything up to 36 well maintained MLU's are available with plenty of spare parts and weapons, AND Sir, a sufficient number of well trained and experienced pilots (including weapon and flying instructors) ground personnel and anything you need to set up a complete airbase as far as necessary.. All the personel mentioned above would love to emigrate to Kiwiland instead of flying desks, be fired anyway or becoming civilians, same as the NZ personel emigrated after the Strike Wing was so elegantly discarded of by one of your predecessors. Multi role supersonic planes, avionics comparable to Block 50-52 , and personnel also able to help set up training facilities for NZ pilots for the years to come to work in the direction of an all Kiwi force in the future. So not too much initial costs.......... And, Minister, as this is the seond round of reductions within one year, if you might need anything for the Navy (couple of frigates, brand new) or the Army (about 60 Leopards II A6, some Patriots or whatever), just let us know too..... We are very sorry that we already gave our Orions away, but, as an extra if you need a huge amount of seond hand speed camera's and devices like that for your police, a phone call is sufficient, as, notwithstanding reductions on everything else, there are of course plentifull funds for new stuff of that kind for the police (where would a country be without speeding tickets) , so the somewhat older hardware (maximum 2 years or so) is very cheaply available ............ I have the honour to be , sir, Your obedient, Derk

Maybe it's time to shake up the leading laguage on these forums a bit .......... Will take some time but the result is worth it !! "The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s..." will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem of a united Urop vil finali kum tru! And zen we wil rul ze world! "

Great memories of Coningsby: during my motorbike holiday in the summer of 1974, after a night full of in the pub in the village, a guy from 29 Squadron invited me at the base next day. It was great, spend a couple of hours in the squadron hangar, got a cockpit briefing in a Phantom, visited the BBMF hangar, sat in the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane, had a walk around two visiting KLu 322 Sq F 104's and so on and had another couple of beers in the mess., It was absolutely Phabulous and Phantastic , those were the days......

Its the truth concerning my cat Sijtje and her two obedient Newfoundlanders Jessie & Lilly. With due credits to you, Widowmaker (I named you co-owner of a Newcastle pet shop) I put this on Facebook, thanking you for reminding us of the Universal Truth in cat-dog relations..

Oh dear.... HB2U Dave 39 4 ever !!!

Gefeliciteerd Sir !!!!!!

All right, so that it's clear who's the boss:

What a beauty !!!!

Fantastic Volker, looking forward to the Koblenz pics !!!

Great, every reason to be proud !!!!

Oh dear, meaning 867 new skins in two weeks Volker ?

Gefeliciteerd vriend !!! Vat een goede pint !!

Brother in law flew them... (and luckily didn't crash, we lost a couple due to stabilator trouble...)

...I feel ashamed that as a Dutchman I havent seen this before, and at the same time proud of an honest, very inspiring soldier, acting under difficult circumstances. I consider him (and his predecessor Dick Berlijn for that matter) outstanding in their role as Commander in Chief, true assets for our armed forces. And for the record (unthinkable and horrible): his son, Lt Dennis van Uhm was killed just THE DAY after his father was appointed CiC.................

My eldest daughter spent some time in Uganda 4 years ago for an NGO (she was 15 then) and interviewed children i.e. child soldiers who had been kidnapped by the LRA and forced to kill their parents, brothers and sisters. These intervieuws are still burned into my soul, first of all because my daughter was involved but foremost because of the unspeakable atrocities committed by this so called "Christian" .... :angry2: She is active at Facebook right now where there is an action going on to help this asshole getting arrested (and for my money killed right away like Osama B.L.....) God bless the day he is caught.......

Viel Spass Carlo, das sind so manchmal ganz schöne Gelegenheiten, speziell wenn es das letzte Mal F4F ist !!