Posts by Emilio Desalvo 90 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2009
... a factory to move overseas?
You must get you union men, pack them on a RAF C-17, and parachute them in a developing nation, so that they will unionise it, raise the cost of producing in that nation, an make it more interesting to produce something in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Just look at what happened with mines. A lot of them in the US and Europe closed because they could not fight competition from outside. Now that China has a burgeoning internal market it is gobbling a lot of stuff without selling it to the outside, so a lot of those mines will soon be profitable again, to feed OUR internal market...
... building a space ark...
The lot of registered users of the site is probably the best list of telephone sanitisers, hairdressers, management consultants, and documentary film producers we will probably be able to find on this planet.
We just have to move them to another planet, the Golgafrincham way...
Ryan Air has just notified that it will cancel domestic flights in Italy because ENAC is trying to enforce a regulation which allows people to board a domestic flights "with unapproved forms of ID including AT/BT Cards, Employment ID’s or Italian Fishing Licences."...
http://www.ryanair.com/ie/news/suspension-of-italian-domestic-flights-from-23rd-january
Too much ID is bad...
Well, using a lighter in the barn would probably have solved the problems.
The interesting fact is that fifty years ago ALL THE FARMERS of the continent would have been fined for 'for ignoring cow's 'psychological needs'’'
BTW, what are the 'psychological needs' of my lunch?
"We'd advise Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, etc, etc, to keep a close eye on developments, just in case. ®"
To give a Lewis Page spin to this piece of news, I would like to remind that this time around the French Navy has nuclear powered conventional decked carrier, with supersonic fighter-bombers, with long range ANS anti-ship missiles.
This time around the Royal Navy would probably last a whole quarter of an hour.
"In the X-51, regular JP-7 jet fuel will swiftly replace the initial ignition stream of burning ethylene."
The JP7 is nothing but "regular". It was developed for and used only on the SR-71 Blackbird, the plane that dripped fuel until its fuselage heated and sealed itself while flying.
The "regular" jet fuels used by the military are JP8 (US Air Force) and JP5 (US Navy on board carriers, MUCH higher flash point).
The unions all over Europe keep blabbering about "Defending the european worker", but that's only hot air.
The only thing they could do to really defend the workers would be parachuting by nighttime in chinese factories, and start unionising them to give the chinese workers a higher pay and more free time.
But that would mean running some kind of risk, so that will never happen...
@Pirate Dave:
> if a pilot takes off from a carrier and for some reason has to land quickly
> thereafter, he has to dump his fuel and (expensive) armament in the
> ocean before he can land?
In an emergency you ALWAYS dump fuel and armament, even on a conventional carrier.
The only emergency where you do not dump the armament is when your bombs got armed before you drop them, in which case whatever harsh you do would detonate them: landing on a carrier, dumping the bombs, ejecting. The only thing you can do is a soft landing on a land base, then wait for the EOD.
The problem with the Harriers is that in hot weather they do not have the power to land vertically with unexpended armaments.
Now, the question is: I have never heard about the Italian Navy dumping AMRAAMs when landing on the Garibaldi. Neither about the Marines doing the same. What is the problem with British Harriers?
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