The story of The Times being duped by a random guy called Bill DeBlasio is rather amusing. https://x.com/armanddoma/status/1983728764174717161 The British newspaper of record confused him with the fo… (View Post)

There’s an Orion and a C130 that I’ve seen, both heavily modified, presumably strengthening in the spar and wings. I read somewhere that they can take 5-6g rather than 2-3g of a regular plane. One of… (View Post)

Offtopic, cockpit view from the crazy hurricane plane, with a ‘flight engineer’ sitting between the two pilots trying to keep everything straight. https://x.com/planesanity/status/1983790519357481358 (View Post)

Rayner’s situation was a lot more serious, with tens of thousands of pounds in tax at stake and clear untruths from her as the media drip-fed the story. Reeves’ situation is minor in comparison, but … (View Post)

Don’t give her ideas! IIRC there’s 1.6m earning over £100k, there’s probably another couple of million earning more than £80k, that’s roughly the 90th percentile. (View Post)