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https://thekenyatimes.com/war/trump-deploys-u-s-air-force-tankers/

Uh oh.

The RAFs contribution to Operation Eastern Sentry is a couple of Typhoons flying out of one of the English air bases, I forget which one, and they have to be refueled three times before they reach Polish air space. Presumably three times more on the way back, and extra times if they want to remain in Polish air space for any meaningful period.

I don't suppose Britain has the refuelling fleet to repeat Operation Black Buck these days, so I expect there will be plenty of use for USAF refuellers.

• USAF use the flying-boom refueling method
  
• UK uses the probe-and-drogue refuelling method
  

They are incompatible with each other. Although an adaptor can be fitted on a boom to turn it into a drogue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling

It goes like this:

• USAF refuelling aircraft have a boy part and USAF fighters have a girl part
  
• RAF refueling aircraft have a girl part and RAF fighters have a boy part
  
• But USAF refuelling aircraft can have their boy part adapted to be a girl part and can refuel the RAF's boy part
  

There you go. Totally different to trans and I'm sure we're all relieved by that

(note: this is genuinely how aerial refuelling works)

Thanks also for the kind messages and prayers sent to me and my wife after the birth of our stillborn son a few days ago. To update we have been able to hold him, read to him, write a card of our love for him and have a few days with him at least. The hospital chaplain also gave him a blessing. We named him Theo.

He has now gone for a postmortem, which will take a few weeks but hopefully give us some answers as to why it happened, after which we will arrange a small funeral for him and bury his ashes

That is so beautiful and emotional and just simply I shed a tear reading it

God bless you and your family and you will have a place to visit him

As Jesus said ' suffer the little children to come unto me'

Thanks BigG and everyone else for your comments, we too have shed a few tears over the last few days but also been able to share our love with Theo and we will always be his parents even if as you say he is now with Jesus in spirit

Having listened to the wonderful Reeves go on about all her wonderful achievements - and blame the last government entirely - I wonder

1) how long this line can last, looking at last months borrowing figures
2) what planet she is living on

..and to take credit for the cuts in interest rates? Come on

Interest rates are falling because the economy, on her watch, is going down the toilet with lower growth, more unemployment, less investment and higher inflation. The last is key, the Bank, whose primary responsibility is supposed to be inflation which is higher than our contemporaries and still going up, is so worried about the state of the economy they are cutting base rates. It is absolutely nothing to boast about. It is one step away from panic.

In what seems like the most well trodden path for lefties who start to think for themselves, Emma Watson is getting absolutely blasted on bluecry by the "tolerant" and "open minded" people of the left. Being compared to Hitler, death threats, being called a fascist all because she decided that people are free to have their own opinions.

That audience she sucked up to and cultivated by shitting all over JK Rowling has turned on her and you just love to see it. A taste of what she has been doing to people who she disagreed with for the last decade.

Watson did not "shit all over" J K Rowling. She politely expressed a different view, and one which stupid people then said: "How DARE she disagree with someone who had something to do with her employment 20 years ago!!!! She OWES J K Rowling!!!"

You can easily see it the other way from the way you put it, and that Watson decided to have her own opinions, and was shouted down by Rowling and others. I find it hard to see how you can say what Watson said recently was anything other than polite and considerate, and that Rowling's response was plain nasty.

You're literally rewriting history. For a decade the left have been trying to cancel JKR, attempted to boycott her books, games and other media she's been responsible for, it was people like Watson who were revving those people up by denouncing Rowling. Now you're saying that it was Watson and Radcliffe being cancelled? Pull the other one. What's changed is that the left lost the argument on crossdressers and transvestites pretending to be women, that has been the turning point for the return of sanity and why it seems Watson has repented from those attempts to cancel JKR.

As I said, I've got a wife and two daughters who don't have the same megaphone that JKR does to stand up to the TRA bullies, I will always be thankful that she used her voice to protect women's spaces. She deserves an apology from Watson and Radcliffe and I do hope that they begin to see after this backlash against Watson exactly what it is they encouraged and helped create with their denouncements of JKR.