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    Thanks, though I suspect its the time difference between me and the US that probably got me in before anyone else! I remember seeing "Tora Tora Tora!" and wondering where the heck they got the Zeroes from. Some time later, I was walking past the movie poster for "Pearl Harbour" which had a head-on shot of a Japanese aeroplane on the attack and thinking "Hmm, somethings off there... " which prompted me to look it up and thats when I learned about the "Zeroes in Disguise!". I have seen a real, non-flying, Zero at the Science Museum in Ueno, Tokyo. Apparently its an extremely rare two-seat conversion.
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    Guessing they're the disguised Texans that were used in "Tora Tora Tora!" and "Pearl Harbour"?
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    Thanks for the explanation. Was also wondering how they were going to hang Phoenixes on it...
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    Okay, why are the naval F-15s so fond of wingtip Sidewinder rails?
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    Simply not going to happen for at least twenty plus years. We're kind of committed to the F-35B and ski-jump equipped carriers at least for now (I suppose technically would be possible during a mid-life refit, but extremely unlikely I think). Edit: and, I suppose we could potentially buy more carriers - just need a find a goose that lays golden eggs first...!
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    Regards maintenance workers messing up occasionally, as it happens today I visited the "Mary Rose", a Tudor-era warship that sank in the 1500s, later recovered from the seabed in the 1980s and is now on display at Portsmouth Historic Naval Dockyard, England. Whilst reading some of the exhibit descriptions, it turned out that one of the many items that was recovered alongside the wreck was a tool dropped by a dockyard worker when working on the ship that eventually worked its way into the interior so its not exactly a new problem...
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    Honestly? I have no idea if thats significant or not.
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    I wonder... as its been confirmed that this is set in the "Prime" universe, and I think I read somewhere its set between the end of the original crew movies and TNG, if the "Discovery" is a co-operative venture between the Klingons and Star Fleet...?
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    Theres a story that when a consultant was bought in by the Thatcher government to try and make Concorde profitable, he ran a survey asking passengers what they thought the tickets cost. Apparently they all answered a figure that was much higher than the actual cost, so they changed the prices up to match the perception...
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    Blink and you'll miss it but at about 1:00 thats Canary Wharf station on the London Underground - you can see the escalators!
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    I was still hoping for the Japanese P-1. Just for some variety...
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    And so ends the saga of the Nimrod MR4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36763212
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    Way, way back in the mists of UK time, when one could still buy war comics with names like "Battle" and "Warlord", the latter (I think) used to run a strip every now and again about a Harrier jump jet equipped with an A.I. co-pilot (well, in those days no-one had invented the term "A.I." so it was a "computer" co-pilot). Oddly enough, I recall that the Harrier was a two-seater, which raises the question of what the other guy did who wasn't flying (possibly a technician overseeing the computer?). The ones I remember were drawn by the great, though possibly in the US somewhat obscure, Ian Kennedy (http://downthetubes.net/?p=27517; gawd that guy could draw aircraft!).
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    Well, assuming that the AI doesn't need training in the first place e.g. how to recognise the difference between the Huggylands Happy Home For Orphaned Puppies and the Secret Underground Volcanic Rocket Base Villains Lair (sponsored by SONY)... I did forget about air-to-air missiles which obviously can pull very high Gs though they're obviously not usually designed to be re-used...
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    Even if an AI can pull off such stunts, would the airframe still be able to take it? 9G stuff tends to take its toll. And though you may save some internal space without life support etc the AI itself might need cooling systems and a back-up ZX Spectrum for when a lucky shot turns the proto-plasmic protonic gel processor into spaghetti...
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    That fuel probe deployment is oddly disturbing...
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    First UK F-35B arrives in UK for airshow. It got across the Atlantic without catching fire, being unable to keep up with the tanker or being shot down by MiG-17s; however, given the current exchange rate it might be the only one we'll actually be able to afford... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36670106 Supposedly in a recent exercise, several F-15Es were unable to intercept a flight of F-35s and prevent them carrying out their mission objectives in an exercise, though details are a bit limited (varying from "F-15s couldn't find F-35s in recent exercise" to "F-35s shot down entire rest of worlds air forces and the Kodan Armada in recent exercise").
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    Now I've had some time to think about it, this situation isn't that unusual - A.I. controlled aircraft, tanks, combat vehicles and the like routinely match or beat human minds all the time. In video games. Apparently one problem many games developers run into is that during early builds the A.I. is often too good and needs to be dialled down a bit for the puny meat sacks to stand to a chance...
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    So... does anyone know the flight status of the YF-19? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36650848
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    Yes, I remember reading that the Typhoons early airshow performances were a bit limited as they hadn't cleared some of the limitations yet, which meant that the Rafale (which was further along in its development programme) could put on more impressive displays at the time.
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    I'll give the F-35 this, from the few minutes of footage that have emerged, it does seem to be pretty quick in a straight line though given that monster of an engine that shouldn't be much of a surprise.
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    As I'm sure we all know, the very best way to analyse a fighter aircrafts performance is through videos on the internet: Insert "F-35 can't keep up with 70 year old Spitfire" comment here...
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    That museum with the Spitfire/V1 - wow, thats a really imaginative display! (for those wondering, the Spitfires wings are "clipped" to improve rate of roll at lower altitudes, important when going up against Fw190s). For those of you who like your airliners, the BBC has a new documentary series you might like, "City in the Sky" which you may be able to get on iPlayer depending on where you are. It focuses on all aspects of modern international air travel; I've only seen a few minutes but it was much better than I was expecting.
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