Prince William got his RAF wings.

On Apr 16, 4:07 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
george writes:
Jealousy rears its ignorant head ..

I have no desire to fly for the RAF. There are much better air forces than
that, and they don't have to kowtow to a family of royals treated as superior
by accident of birth.

You have no desire to fly period !

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:32:06 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

Officers at the flying school devised a bespoke syllabus

First time I ever saw "bespoke" applied to flight training!

(For you colonials, "bespoke" generally means a tailor-made suit.)

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:29:10 -0700 (PDT), Denny
wrote:

Dudley, I am an ugly american that thinks the so called Royal Family
is a bunch rich hawgs feeding at the public trough over there

Well, Obama seems to have increased his family income from a bit less
than $1 million in 2006 to $1.7 million in 2007, and the Clintons
famously earned $109 million between 2000 and 2006. (By applying for
an extension, they have cleverly managed to boot their 2007 return
information past the Democratic National Convention.) McCain evidently
married a rich lady, as did Kerry of recent fame.

So it would appear that us ugly Americans have also figured out how to
become rich out of public service.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:16:35 -0700 (PDT), 150flivver
wrote:

I think he's a nice enough bloke. I think it's a good idea that he
"familiarize" himself with flying but I don't think he should be
awarded RAF wings without passing the entire course. But that's just
me and I'm not a Brit.

Well, unless the RAF have changed their emblems since WW2, it's not as
if they were wings of gold or even of silver. It's just a cloth patch,
after all (or anyhow used to be)!


Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
new from HarperCollins www.FlyingTigersBook.com

Guys:

Don't you get it? Statements like this from Anthony are his usual method for
stirring the pot, and a pathetic attempt on his part to get the attention he
lacks in his own personal life.

He obviously knows nothing about the RAF or flying in general, and never
will.

Larry Dighera wrote in
:

He's one of us now:


What, he's become a net kkkop?



Bertie

wrote in news:9435ad90-b2c5-4fda-abec-29886fdf1c28
@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com:

On Apr 14, 4:01*pm, (Steve Firth) wrote:
Denny wrote:
He can share my sky

Do either you or Henriques have a receipt for the sky you each claim to
own?

Squatters rights, I believe they are called.

Actually, in the UK, the are called "purple airways". They close fligh
paths that the royals travel on. Or at least they used to. I haven't seen
one notamed in a while.




Bertie

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in
:

Some Other Guy wrote:
Denny wrote:
Dudley, I am an ugly american that thinks the so called Royal Family
is a bunch rich hawgs feeding at the public trough over there... We
put them out of this country and I would put them off the dole in
England in a heartbeat had I the discretion...

For what it's worth, maintaining the entire extended royal family
costs 61p per British taxpayer per year. That's about $1.20 US.


The last time I looked, that was their perogitive. If they don't feel
like supporting a manarchy any longer then they can just have a
revolution like we did. In the meanshile, it's their country and they
can do as they please.

The whole world doesn't have to be just like us, do they?




But the Brits would like to have the whole world like them. The royal's
fortune as robbed from around the globe. Anwhere they went that they had
difficulty pronouncing local names they just changed them. The reason
you're posting this in English is partly due to that habit of their's.

To this day, the first thing they do when they arrive somewhere is set
up a pub and paint a union jack on the side, and then proceed to run
amok.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2004/08/07/wlout07.xml

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...f-lager-louts-
to-get-a-transformation-welcome-to-a-haven-for-families-business-and-
nature-735330.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...ws.conservatio
nandendangeredspecies

http://www.greektravel.com/greekislands/ionian.htm

http://www.expatica.com/es/life_in/f...attle-against-
drunken-tourism-11239.html

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/sigourd_shack/may_
2007/are_the_british_really_the_worlds_worst_tourist_.h tm

This last one has some particularly comical comments below it. I
particularly like the one where americans are criticised for calling
people "sir" all the time.

But really, you have to see a brit tourist resort to believe it. They
have a number of airlines that do nothg but fly drunken louts to the
mediterranean, the carribean, florida Thailand ( you can imagine what
that's for) and elsewhere, where thye generall mock the natives for
their poor english, snub the food in favor of fish and chips , end up
secrewing and fightinga ll over the place and generally leaving the
place poorer in spite of the money they blow....

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/29A835...-FCDB8A31792F/

Mxsmanic wrote:

george writes:

Jealousy rears its ignorant head ..

I have no desire to fly

I've edited your post for accuracy.

--
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(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

Nomen Nescio writes:

I'll tell you this, Dip****, in Gulf War 1, when US planes were dropping laser
guided bombs from 20k ft, the RAF was hauling ass in to heavily defended
airfields at a few hundred feet to drop "runway denial" munitions.

Well, when the RAF catches up on the technology, I'm sure it will be able to
drop laser-guided bombs from 20,000 feet, too.

I don't think they need to hang their heads in shame in the presence of
pilots from any other air force in the world.

They have nothing to be ashamed of, but not much to be proud of, either.

I'll also add that the WORST pilot in the RAF is a better pilot that you will
ever be.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be saying much. I don't think military
pilots measure their own skills by comparison with mine.

Do I detect the bitterness of some jerk off who was born into a fairly privileged
family and blew every opportunity he had?

No, you detect the dislike for injustice of someone who believes in the Golden
Rule and fair play.