Slightly OT - Melbourne's F/A-18
Just heard on the radio that there are plans for armed (not much use otherwise) F/A-18s to patrol Melbourne during the opening and closing ceremonies for the Commonwealth games in March and have an...
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Edinburough in SA? Or isn't there an RAAF Base at East Sale? Is it still open? I guess the key concerns here are runway length and distance to Melbourne. Not sure about some of the other airfields in...
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It is the same in Italy. When there is some special happening we base DDGs and F16 nearby, when the happening is over nobody cares to the fact that 30 F16 are policing the 1500Km long italian...
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Edinburgh is too far away, I imagine they will want maybe a 10 minute QRA? There is East Sale, it's where Central Flying School and the Roulettes are based, but again, too far away I'd think. Essendon...
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Laverton,Point Cook, Avalon, could all cope. I'd guess Avalon, the runways are in good nick and there is heaps of space. Stupid idea anyway. I don't often agree with Vanstone, but at the moment she's...
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You know what? I'd forgotten all about Avalon! Does make sense. And in regards to Vanstone; bite your tounge! Word gets out that people agree with her and she'll run for PM :-)Kto kogo
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At least she's realistic about the 'threat' from terrorism. So far as I'm concerned terrorism succeeds when we change our way of life to accommodate them. Every time they confiscate my adjustable...
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Gotta agree with you there, I work in the Emergency Services field dealing with large scale projects in emergency managment and I can assure you, if all they wanted to do was make us spend more money,...
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It won't happen, but I happen to believe that Amanda Vanstone could well be one of the best PMs Australia could ever hope to have.
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And here I was windering how the heck they were going to operate F/A-18's off a Majestic Class CVL.
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Could someone elighten me as to what Mrs Vanstone has been preaching that has you all ready to enlist? We don't get alot of news down here, only the NT and northern QLD stations and if it does'nt...
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I'm not sure enlist is the right word. She said that most of the airport security is just window dressing and threatened to cut John Howard's throat with a broken wineglass, and stab him in the eye...
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She is ofcourse quite right. Immagine that intelligence in a government minister what will they think of next.Without communications, all I control is my desk, and that is not a very lethal weapon."...
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I like Vanstone's sense of humour. For the Sydney Olympics, security had taken into account the possibility of a highjacked plan crashing into an Olympic stadium. I think they had at least one small...
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