Shaksey

The US and UK are still MASSIVELY ahead of China in SSN submarines. The RN Astute Class boats are of equal capability to the USN Seawolfs. There is one DELCARED and I belleve one shadow/dark Astute unit with the Queen Elizabeth CSG at the moment.....as well as 2x Type 45 Destroyers, 2x Type 23 Frigates, Destroyers - USS The Sullivans and Dutch HNLMS Eversten, multiple replenishment and refueling ships. The Queen is carrying 18 F35B's from RAF 617 and USMC VFMA-211 Sqdn's, plus 20+ RN Fleet Air Arm Merlin Mk2's, Mk4's, and Wildcats. This is the largest and most powerful ever martime carrier deployment of 5th generation strike aircraft. To be sure, China is paying attention.

Same owner. He uses one or the other at least weekly. Best2.mp4

Had a play in a mates Overfinch Range Rover.......

A friend and I when we went to spoil a good walk the other day 😉

Lovely isn't it!

These are MASSIVELY "IN" now. One of my mates just spent two years restoring one of these to original concours spec, another just bought one already fully restored, she has a garage full of metal including 964 Turbo, 997 Turbo....and she hasn't toiuched them since she got her Mk1 GTI Cab!

Oh, yes, for sure. One of my friends just sold his BMW 240iM for £5000 more than he bought it for a year ago. Another friend sold his R8 V10 for £12000 more than he paid 18 months ago.

Since March 2020, when Covid kicked off, I've driven a grand total of just over 1100 miles.

That's true. I ward off the chills by drinking Grand Siecle!

Def K. It's right/stb side, obv in the pic i'm facing backwards.

Excellent blades. My Grandfather just gifted me, 77 years after he won them in battle, some Third Reich SA Daggers and a few Wehrmacht bayonets.

Think this is the last time I was in my favourite daytime 744 seat - UD 62K. My birthday in 2018. Yes, I was suitably congratulated by the entire BA crew. 🙂

Other aircraft - DC-10 - Lpud, spacious, rattly af, I was on the last ever DC-10 operated out of the UK. A380 - BIg, boring. Love the huge upstairs fwd toilets though and the UD mid bar/lounge that some operators have. 777 (all variants) - Hate them. A340 - Like these, quirky, smooth, spacious, loooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg. Good for getting mid-flight walks to stretch ones legs. 787 - Love them, it's true, the fresh air and lower cabin alt. pressure really do make a difference. The chromatic windows are shit though. A350 - Nice, real sense of openness and spaciousness, best Airbus effort. 757 - Loved these, with the RB211's, a real sport plane. BBJ - I worked for an org. once that bought two of these brand spanking new, based on 737-800 i think. Made Global's, G5/6's, Falcons etc seem tiny. BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde - Peerless. Perfect.

My last 747 flight was my phone tells me, Tue 20th August, 2019. Here I am scowling in 1K because my buddy switched us around so he had 1A at checkin when I wasn't paying attention. We were booked in on a 747 in 1A/K again flying home a few days later but one of the RB211's was NBG, flight cancelled and we were pushed onto a 777 a couple of hours later. Little did i know that i'd never fly on BA's Queen again. Lufthansa and Korea both still operate the 747-8 though and I plan to take a flight ASAP. I was once on BA10, one of the last 747 ops, in 64K. we came into LHR and the weather was HOWLING. We got hit by shear at about 100ft well inside the perimeter and over the 27L threshold, the PIC thought sod this and as I heard the RB's throttle up I thought OH f**k YES as we went up and around on full power at what must have been 250,000lb thrust Vs 450,000lb all up weight. The dolly i'd been chatting with said that it was the most intense go-around she'd experienced in 15 years on the job. I have searched YT ever since but it seems no spotters were there to capture it.