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  1. I wonder if they are including aircraft "final-assembled" overseas in those numbers? Looks like Finland will also be assembling jets...
  2. "the world's your lobster" (as said by Arthur, to Terry)
  3. I'll keep that in mind when sitting on the throne, taking a vent.
  4. I wouldn't expect fuel to be dumped over built up areas though.
  5. Surely Texas does not have any problem with bacon supplies? Watching a few videos of hunting the feral pests in the lone star state... Damn there are a few of them!
  6. There is an interesting vid on youtube, where James "captain slow" May has a cook off with his young lady producer "who can make the best bacon sandwitch". The lass has fancy bread, top end bacon, etc, etc. James has the cheapest white bread, lurpac butter and cheapo bacon. Both build up their sandwitch (James cuts off the crusts!) and they have a tasting. Suffice to say the lass is chomping away, mouth full, and nodding her head! An easy winner with James' creation of utter simplicity! Now there's a memory! Crack of dawn on Wagga Wagga airfield having to load up a Caribou for the first flight of the day. Along comes a basket full of sandwitch-sized cubes, wrapped in tin foil...). Turns out these foil pouches are warm! Inside contained TWO bacon sarnies WITH RUNNY EGGS in them!!! Utterly, totally delicious they were! I still remember them...
  7. The only thing that goes with bacon, is MORE bacon! I know for a fact, that bacon is a "superfood" since you can put it with anything & it makes it better. (It also keeps terrorists' away!)
  8. Yankee, Phillips, slotted??? Which
  9. It was the power output of the US engines that caused the longbow radar to be removed from US Apaches.
  10. One would like to have thought so, but there always seems to be backroom politics/deals/backhanders/etc happening. Listening to a podcast today on military procurement, and someone used the phrase "the customer is their own worst enemy" in relation to an Air Force agreement. It certainly sounded like a good "loose" contract left lots of wiggle room for all involved...
  11. shines just like new (The Sydney opera house: known as "Nuns in a scrum" for the pointy ball players out there!)
  12. Correct, negotiations are very involved, BUT a full, locked-in agreement is achievable. Even more important then. Stopping "empire building" & individuals building a monument to themself, at the cost to the project, needs reigning in.
  13. Simple contract negotiations. "Customer" states and agrees to specific outcomes - coupled with fixed agreements on purchase numbers (+ potentially massive financial "opt-out" criteria). The USA will be seeing more of these in future...
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