http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059#post-159182 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:20:09 +0000 waylandsmithy 159182@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers DVO, couldn't remember the name TSR2! It's about time we dug up HOTOL again, and threw billions at it before scrapping the prototypes. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059#post-159174 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:46:28 +0000 dvo4fun 159174@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Not forgetting the TSR2 and that other huge money-pit and 3/4 scale friend of hearing aid salesfolk Concorde </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059#post-159172 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:58:06 +0000 waylandsmithy 159172@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It continues a long tradition of piss-poor aircraft for the RAF and Navy. My favourite was the Gloster Javelin, that could explode if it flew through clouds.</p> <p>The carbon-fibre Harrier was another classic, which no-one could repair when it was introduced. Then there's the Tornadoes with concrete where the radar should have been, and the original Lightning, which couldn't carry missiles because they put too much strain on the airframe.</p> <p>Britain has a long and proud history of developing dreadful, useless shit at vastly inflated prices. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059#post-159171 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:53:33 +0000 The All New Jeni B 159171@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I do rather love the fact that 'The Spoof' feels it is necessary to run that story with the disclaimer that the story is not true. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059#post-159167 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:57:34 +0000 Squudge 159167@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.thespoof.co.uk/news/uk/112156/nix-names-banned-from-defence-procurements">bolt from the blue</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55059#post-159166 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:56:46 +0000 Squudge 159166@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9813125/Lightning-will-ground-F35-fighter-jet-known-as-the-Lightning-II.html">air farce</a> </p>