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Irans fighter's in all their glory

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  • #2
    Hogmeister B
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭Hogmeister B


    Your English teacher should be sacked. Posession takes an apostrophe s, as in Iran's, and plural takes an s only, as in fighters.


  • #3
    GerryRyan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 966 ✭✭✭GerryRyan


    So should yours. It's 'possession', not 'posession'.

    magick; good link.


  • #4
    zuma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭zuma


    Nice isnt it that the area immediately surrounding the air base is very low resolution?

    I wonder who supplied these pictures to google ;)


  • #5
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Am I the only one who thinks that the fighters should be parked tail to tail rather than nose to nose?
    I'd love to see those trying to scramble. It would not be pretty.:D


    NMM


  • #6
    magick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    meh
    Your English teacher should be sacked. Posession takes an apostrophe s, as in Iran's, and plural takes an s only, as in fighters.


    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Image:Grammar_Nazi.gif


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  • #7
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    Am I the only one who thinks that the fighters should be parked tail to tail rather than nose to nose?

    Yes. Everyone else saw that top gear episode, driving a 2CV behind a Boeing at full engine power.

    http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/directline_issues/dl6_blast.htm
    Avoid parking light aircraft "tail-to" turbojets on airport ramps; light aircraft may be damaged during jets' power-up and initial taxi.

    edit:
    yeah, I know I'm spoofing. I know nothing about jet takeoff and scramble situ.


  • #8
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    A poorly phrased post on my part.

    I didn't actually mean tail directly opposite tail, I was more trying to convey the ability to taxi away from the parking spot under their own power without having to be hitched to a "pusher" vehicle to go backwards from their station. This would take valuable minutes for each aircraft and delay takeoff. I know launching a modern fighter is more complex process not like their WWII counterparts but any time saved is worthwhile in an emergency situation. You have never seen a Fire Brigade Appliance reversing out of a Fire Station with sirens going have you?

    NMM


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