russian bombers approach british air space

[Robert Jarvis]

Interesting point about the intercept was that it was done by the Typhoon (Eurofighter) not the usual Tornados.

 

[Dylan]

The tornadoes are being replaced slowly by the Typhoon. I think they wanted to make a statement back at the Russians. Send your bombers, we send our most capable intercepters.

 

[Ct jr.]

What could poutine (putin) possibly gain from these bomber patrols?

 

[SuitsBlue]

classic sabre rattling.

 

[Dylan]

Show of Force.

 

[SuitsBlue]

what was the ruski airline that kept having accidents before it got closed down?

 

[Dylan]

Aeroflot? Are they still going?

Remember the Soviet Concorde that crashed at the Paris Air Show?

 

[SuitsBlue]

cant remember, was talking recent events today with a neighbour - he mentioned an old soviet airline that went kaput.

 

[Dylan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines#Russia

There you go!! Narrowed it down for you

 

[SuitsBlue]

there was one that kept crashing - so bad was the problem that certain countries stopped letting them land.

and i dont see aeroflot in their either

 

[SuitsBlue]

and the UK list is massive

 

[Dylan]

At the Paris Air Show on 3 June, 1973, the development programme suffered a severe blow when the first Tu-144S production aircraft (reg 77102) crashed. While in the air, it undertook a violent downwards manoeuvre. Trying to pull out of the subsequent dive, the plane broke up and crashed, destroying 15 houses and killing all six on board and eight on the ground.
The causes of this incident remain controversial to this day. A popular theory was that the Tu-144 was forced to avoid a French Mirage chase plane which was attempting to photograph its canards, which were very advanced for the time, and that the French and Soviet governments colluded with each other to cover up such details. The flight of the Mirage was denied in the original French report of the incident, perhaps because it was engaged in industrial espionage. More recent reports have admitted the existence of the Mirage, though not its role in the crash

Here is the wikipedia on the TU-144, the 'Koncordski' which crashed. And here is the (bad quality) Youtube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQlbhgD4YQ&mode=related&search=

 

[SuitsBlue]

well, i wont be around for the 100 years anniversary of the opening of the records, but maybe, just maybe i will be around for a few others on the horizon.

 

[Dylan]

Here is another great Soviet crash vid (nobody was hurt, just some pride ), either a SU-27 or a MiG-31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC7tfKGrk7E&NR=1

 

[SuitsBlue]

that the airshow one?