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by cstorey
06 Mar 2022, 12:38
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

I think it's just coincidence, Kevin. As I type this Sunday 1238 UTC, a RAF C17 is just entering Czech airspace at FL 370 en route to Rzeszow
by cstorey
05 Mar 2022, 12:07
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

Here is a very interesting development . A Rossiya Special Service Il96 is en route from St Petersburg to Washington. Is it to collect the 12 expelled diplomats, or is it something more hopeful than that ?
by cstorey
05 Mar 2022, 09:07
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

Chosen the wrong season for cutting off gas : the worst of the cold has passed ! I am not as gloomy as you Mike : I doubt that Russia really has the capacity to roll over any former USSR state, and the only real possibility is Moldova., because the Baltic states are NATO . This invasion has gone spe...
by cstorey
05 Mar 2022, 08:16
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

It is difficult to know whether he has actually been seen since Monday. Yesterday there was a most extraordinary bit of film showing Putin talking, rising to his feet, then sitting and talking again, but when this was taken is not clear. The fact is that whatever the military outcome ( and that is l...
by cstorey
02 Mar 2022, 12:11
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

2 interesting things are that the convoy does not seem to be moving. It has been stuck where it is for 2 days. Why ? Secondly, according to US reports, the Russian AF is conspicuous by its absence ( and having seen the amount of Rivet Joint traffic of both the USAF and the RAF one presumes they do h...
by cstorey
27 Feb 2022, 17:42
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

Senile dementia is a more likely explanation. A further sad piece of news , not of the same ilk as all the casualties but sad nonetheless , is that the Miryia AN225 has gone
by cstorey
26 Feb 2022, 08:27
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

It may be wishful thinking on my part, but I saw a broadcast by Putin yesterday, and he looks to have aged at least 10 years in the last week or thereabouts, the last pictures I saw being at "the long table" . I was also struck by the fact that the invasion having been launched in crystal ...
by cstorey
24 Feb 2022, 21:45
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

I hope you will apologise immediately for your recent post , Paul K.
by cstorey
24 Feb 2022, 18:49
Forum: Payware Heads Up!!
Topic: A Very Interesting but Complex Model Update X-Plane for 12
Replies: 16
Views: 1635

Re: A Very Interesting but Complex Model Update X-Plane for 12

Ah, thanks for those links, Nigel . I know now why I won't be buying any further XPlane products
by cstorey
24 Feb 2022, 18:43
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: Ukraine
Replies: 185
Views: 10169

Re: Ukraine

Ah, well, according to the PM and Foreign Sec, the exclusion from Swift is about to happen . It still doesn't alter the fact that the proposed measures don't, as yet, go far enough. This needs to hurt innocent Russians as well as Putin - that way, someone may get their fingers round his scrawny thro...