Rip-off?

Awfully sorry to introduce a few actual facts...

1. It's always been named Voyager- the MoD/RAF name for it.
2. The paint job is PART OF a significant scheduled service (servicing is apparently handy in stopping them falling from the skies.)
3. If a tanker is dependent on a low vis paint scheme for its air defence survival, it's clucked. Most air-to-air kills are from beyond visual range, with radar targetting.
4. I like it. (The fact is, that it's my opinion.)

You're welcome.

CG
 
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My brother works in aerospace and visits most of the plane makers at times. For some reason he feels safer in an Airbus and has done for several years now. Years ago when he read Michael Crichton's book Airframe he was very annoyed and reckoned the business wasn't like that. Maybe he wonders now.
 
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diytry20 said:
Any visuals of what it's actually going to look like? It's surely not going to all the UK flag?
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The aircraft today supported operational training acting as a ‘petrol station in the sky’ offering refueling support to RAF Lightning and Typhoon fighters during Exercise CRIMSON OCEAN. Taking off from RAF Brize Norton, the aircraft spent most of the day airborne to provide several refueling stops for the fighters taking part in the joint RAF and Royal Navy exercise.
 
charliegolf said:
The paint job is PART OF a significant scheduled service (servicing is apparently handy in stopping them falling from the skies.)
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I've always known that flashy paint makes you go faster

Now I hear it prevents crashes as well.
 
It's terrible to hear that planes are not serviced or inspected except when they are given flashy paint jobs.
 
Visual, Ultrasonic and and XRay structural testing is best achieved when paint is not present.
 
ajohn said:
My brother works in aerospace and visits most of the plane makers at times. For some reason he feels safer in an Airbus and has done for several years now. Years ago when he read Michael Crichton's book Airframe he was very annoyed and reckoned the business wasn't like that. Maybe he wonders now.
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Been an ongoing debate for decades.Boeing V Airbus,which is safer.
 
bernardgreen said:
Boeing's rush to market of the 737 MAX makes me question the ethics of their management.
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They made a mistake...huge....but mistake.It happens,sure they will learn ..They do not always get it wrong...Then again,Airbus are not without mistake,over reliance on automation....etc.
 
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