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Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

To me this was utter perfection- I yearned to fly the Lightning from an early age - quintessential British engineering - gloriously over powered and yet a delight to fly Firestreakbooks.com

As well As @easyJet @easyJetholidays there is another stunning airline on a different continent @Fly_Airlink are excellent in every respect ... I'll be with you Sunday again Upington to Joberg ! 5 stars 🤩 brilliant crew today JNB - Upington 1550 ... oh and my bag might be heavy

I see an F-4 Phantom flew in the US recently- well done for keeping history alive - image - firestreakbooks.com - and yes I will get Vol 2 done soon

The joy of .... digital images is they can be lost for years and then ping they appear ! I'm on a mission - complete a 100 page bookazine by 17 July ..... can I beat the clock ?

Something exciting is happening and I have 3 weeks to do it ! @MrJamesMay Capt Slow 👯

What am I doing -- amusing answers only please

This man is an utter legend -

Start the week with an F-4 Phantom M version image firestreakbooks.com @CcibChris

Comedy was better then

THE DOSSIER #3: Torsten Bell MP – The Parachute Hypocrite Torsten Bell, September 1982. PPE from Oxford. Fabian Society speaker. Child Poverty Action Group trustee. Academy of Social Sciences Fellow. The network wrote your script before you learned to speak. Your mother wrote policy papers about families. Your father taught at Swansea University then worked for Save the Children. Your twin brother is a civil servant. The Bell family has never had a real job. Never met a payroll. Never created wealth. Only consumed it. Only managed it. Only lectured those who make it. You spent nine years at the Resolution Foundation writing about poverty. Nine years building your brand as the man who cared about the poor. Then you entered Parliament and immediately voted to keep the two-child benefit cap. You discovered principles are expensive when you are collecting a ministerial salary. You claim "I'm no career politician" on your website. The lie is clinical. Treasury civil servant. Special Adviser to Darling during the crash you helped create. Policy Director for Miliband. Chief Executive of a think tank. Then MP. Then minister in six months. You have never had a job outside the Westminster bubble. You are the bubble. You parachuted into Swansea West with no Welsh blood, no local roots, no connection to the place you now represent. The constituency was a convenience. A seat to be occupied. A stepping stone to your rapid promotion. The locals called you a carpetbagger. The national party crushed their democracy and imposed you anyway. Six months to minister. The fastest rise in the new intake. Not because you are talented. Because you are obedient. Because you spent nine years at a think tank learning how to serve power while writing about challenging it. Because Starmer needed a reliable PPE graduate to vote as instructed. You wrote a book called Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back. You are the future. Another chinless wonder from the Oxford policy factory who discovered that thinking about poverty pays better than solving it. Another insider playing outsider because it tests well in focus groups. Swansea West deserves better than a tourist. Britain deserves better than a professional opinion-haver who votes to keep children poor while collecting two salaries. Your seat is safe. Permanent exile awaits. Congratulations. You are The Dossier. Your betrayal of Britain is now complete.

NEW: Britain’s future fleet of fighter jets capable of dropping nuclear bombs is under threat in Sir Keir Starmer’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP). The Telegraph understands “serious conversations” are taking place at very senior levels of the military and Government over whether to cut or delay proposals to buy 12 F-35A stealth jets. Sir Keir announced the £1bn plan to buy the jets last year, but ministers are now believed to be considering the future of the RAF project ahead of the release of the chronically delayed DIP. The investment plan was due to be published last autumn, but a funding row between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Treasury has left it in limbo for months. The F-35As can carry the B61 bomb, an American-made tactical nuclear weapon. The B61 bombs are designed to destroy a smaller area than Britain’s current arsenal of Trident 2 D5 ballistic missiles, which can deliver 12 warheads capable of levelling a city. The jets would provide Britain with another rung on the “escalatory ladder of war” before the deployment of more damaging strategic nuclear weapons, defence officials said. They would be in addition to the planned 138 F-35Bs, which are built to fly off Britain’s two aircraft carriers but cannot carry nuclear bombs. However, according to those with knowledge of the DIP, the F-35A scheme is at risk as ministers attempt to save money and fund other military projects as part of “tough” decisions still being mulled over by Downing Street. One defence source said the future of the F-35A was being discussed and its funding could be delayed or cut entirely, citing talks between “two and three-star” military commanders. It is understood that the proposals for the F-35A are among many options being considered. However, no final decision has been made.  Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/f607a89…

F-4 Phantom the manual is avail from firestreakbooks.com 111 Sqn operated the FG1 version ( along with 43 Squadron ) after a short spell with the FGR2- The Navy FAA only operated one front line squadron 892 Squadron with 767 a training unit - Image at RAF Wildenrath 1987?

I know I've been told to " stay in my Lane" but I am extremely worried .. Whilst the 300,000 Free Breakfasts are brilliant what happens during the summer holidays ? are we going to need Bob Geldof to make a record ??? I am struggling to see how they will survive for 8 weeks ?

Sunday vibes instagram.com/p/DZSk7GCMU80/…

Sunday vibes - there is a reason why my aircraft refused to start ....

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Generations apart - heading to Cyprus we had a whole victor to ourselves. Image firestreakbooks.com

This one goes viral nearly every week. This is not a "near disaster" as some claim. This maneuver of a Cathay Pacific A330 was a display by Airbus test pilots, filmed in Farnborough, 1994. So, rest assured, the maneuver was studied and practiced beforehand.