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If it can do this on land it can do it at sea. Wow what a sports car of a plane. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFEqmPececo&feature=related

They sem to jump off the runway on land, good head wind and a ship steaming I'm sure the leaped into the air off the carriers.

Heard about this but have never seen them aboard ship.

When will their conventional carrier be ready?

God has spoken

20 Spitfires found buried in Burma looks like RNZAF could get some birds.

Like I said in the other similar thread, would love to see them up in a mass flyby.

Looks like these birds are in good shape. Would love to see all of them up in a mass flyby.

Makes sense w/US govt cutting back on the military.

I love this!

This is the video my wife took of the big "D" shuttle. It took off right at our building a the Ron Jons Resort. Flew South to Cocoa then North along the coast and then did a fly by over Kennedy Space Center. http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?video_id=oOHg7t3LNAE&video_referrer=watch&ns=1&feature=mhsn

NASA shuttle to DC I am in Cape Canaveral for this week, will try to watch for it early but it may be to dark when they depart in the a.m.

Article: Wrong turn grants glimpse behind N. Korean curtain

Derk, I fell on this while surffing the web and was laughing so hard I pulled a muscle in my back and chest.

This music makes me think that the Blue Angles are special guest stars on CHiPs, and Ponch & Jhon will use the Blues to solve some type of crime.

I remember reading about this about 15-20 + years ago/

Rgr that.

Derk thats what I'm lookin for

JediMaster, Here's my original post to start this off. Did you read it? You are proposing to buy new when that will never happen all at once. You suggest wait several years for Typhoons, F-18 Suprs, and F-35s way to expensive for NZ, that is never gonna happen. Think frugal. The point is to start now and get the strike wing up and running in a cost effective proposal. It may not be the best planes or newest planes, just somthing that can do better than what they have now, which is nothing. Which countries are selling thier Typhoons and Gripens. The later started being delivered in 1997 and about 6 years ago the Typhoons. 15 years+ before any of these become available in substantial numbers. As I said before "Now you can propose buying new It would be great, but it would be less expensive to get in and running with both new and used and swap out the older ones for newer right?"

Looks like the JSDAF demo team Blue Impulse have felt the pressure of budget cuts.

What about the Greek Airforce, it seems to work for them a combination of new and pre-owned combat strike fighters to include the F-16,and these 2 which they started to receive back in the mid 70's F-4E, and A-7 not all these planes were new build for them. Turkey had new build F-4 and received ex-USAF and German Phantoms in the late 80s and early 90s with a large percentage still flying today with a good amount of F-4E 2020 Terminators which they predict will be flying at least to 2020 and beyond. Then there is the United States 1 example the A-10. The purpouse of this thread was to propose to the NZ Govt a costly way to get back into the strike fighter cockpit. Look back at my first entry. Now you can propose buying new It would be great, but it would be less expensive to get in and running with both new and used and swap out the older ones for newer right? The Buick was assembled in Delta Township, Michigan

Well no there not supposed to get shot at/blown up in combat according to popular beliefs. Soldiers join now as apposed to past wars, maybe they don't deserve medals or recognition for their volunteerism. I think not! A soldier is a soldier wheather they are at 5000 ft dropping bombs, 5 ft in the mud in a fortified fighting position or 500 miles away from the front in an A/C'd office pushing paperwork so the logistics can make it to those two soldiers on the line fighting. People who join now have more input in what they want their military careers to be than decades past. Some jobs in the military are a little more dangerous than others. Should the NCO office worker get a purple heart for a stapple through the finger during a time of war then? Like I said before I take nothing from this NCO that did her job and did it well, but look at the situation my problem is still with the people that got this pushed through.