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Inderdaad.quote:Op zaterdag 22 juni 2013 13:43 schreef waht het volgende:
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De reis is vaak leuker dan de bestemming.
Het verhaal van Black Buck Six klinkt ook wel goed:quote:
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Fijn om te horen dat je het ook interessant vond.
Black Buck Six
This mission, again flown by Squadron Leader Neil McDougall in XM597, attacked and destroyed a Skyguard fire-control radar of the army's 601 Anti-aircraft battalion on 3 June, killing four radar operators, an officer, a sergeant and two privates. On its return flight the aircraft was forced to divert to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil after its in-flight refuelling probe broke. One of the missiles it was carrying was ditched into the ocean to reduce drag, but the other remained stuck on the pylon and could not be released. Sensitive documents containing classified information were jettisoned into the sea via the crew hatch, and a "Mayday" signal was sent. The aircraft was cleared to land by Brazilian authorities with less than 2,000 lbs of fuel remaining, not enough to complete a circuit of the airport.
The aircraft was interned for nine days at Galeão Air Force Base, then the crew and aircraft were returned on 11 June, having been treated well by the authorities. However, the remaining Shrike missile was confiscated and never returned, and the Brazilian authorities returned the aircraft on condition that it would take no further part in the Falklands War. XM598 acted as flying reserve aircraft.
Die docu gaat alleen over Black Buck One, maar is zeker de moeite waard.quote:
Eikels, nu ben ik bijna verplicht om die docu ook te bekijken,
. 1 blikje Schuttersbier in de koelkast (Zwaar gekoeld).
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Wat een ambitie.quote:Op zaterdag 22 juni 2013 14:16 schreef Friek_ het volgende:
Bert Molenkamp.Zo'n bestuurder wil ik later ook worden.
a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still
Then, with barely half an hour to run, a different, more confident voice crackled through the crew's headsets in an accent that suggested the speaker's English had been learnt in America. By now Gardner had also managed to seal the crew hatch again. These were minor consolations to a crew wondering would happen to them in Brazil, a country, like Argentina, still governed by its military. The Black Buck crews had already taken a unanimous decision not to use their official diversion airfield, a remote military strip in the North East of Brazil. If, they reasoned, they landed at Rio international airport, thousands of people would see them land - including British tourists, perhaps. Then no one can claim we've crashed and disappeared, they thought.
Flying at just below the speed of sound, the two Brazilian fighters closed in on the position relayed by their controller. But as the lethal brace bore down on where they expected to find their target, she was nowhere to be seen. By directing them to the coordinates of the Mayday, rather than on an intercept vector, the Air Force fighter controller had made a fundamental mistake. The F5 pilots quickly realised the error and turned west to continue their hunt for the intruder, but they'd lost too much ground. As they accelerated to supersonic speeds in pursuit, she was already over Rio Bay.
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/RioRendezVous.html
Flying at just below the speed of sound, the two Brazilian fighters closed in on the position relayed by their controller. But as the lethal brace bore down on where they expected to find their target, she was nowhere to be seen. By directing them to the coordinates of the Mayday, rather than on an intercept vector, the Air Force fighter controller had made a fundamental mistake. The F5 pilots quickly realised the error and turned west to continue their hunt for the intruder, but they'd lost too much ground. As they accelerated to supersonic speeds in pursuit, she was already over Rio Bay.
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/RioRendezVous.html
Filosofie, dat is pas marktfalen.quote:Op zaterdag 22 juni 2013 16:19 schreef Friek_ het volgende:
De effecten van global warming zijn het schoolvoorbeeld van marktfalen.
Wat vindt u van het College d'Europe?quote:
The crowning attainment of historical study is a historical sense - an intuitive understanding of how things do not happen. - Lewis Namier
Mijn indruk daarvan spreekt niet van bijzondere lof.quote:
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Wat vindt u van het College d'Europe?
Het leek mij bijzonder duur, maar wonen in Brugge en opgeleid worden tot Eurofiel is heel wat waard.quote:
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Mijn indruk daarvan spreekt niet van bijzondere lof.
The crowning attainment of historical study is a historical sense - an intuitive understanding of how things do not happen. - Lewis Namier
