More plane stuff

[andyBeaker]

I have seen a few episodes of that now, one thing that really surprised me is the amount of armaments we were able to produce in such a short time, other countries with more available workforce and much bigger manufacturing capability produced less for much of the war
What also surprised me is the amount of armaments we were able to export to russia

Yup,,fascinating stuff. A great example being it took whoever was the manufacturer of the Browning machine gun something like 55 hours of labour to produce one, GM in America were given one and asked to have a go at it, they gave it to their gearbox division and produced it in nine hours using less materials!

 

[Duck n Dive]

Yep, he's got an Faa (USA) ppl, you can either do the course there or do a UK ppl first. It's really straightforward then to get an Faa ppl based "piggy-backed" on that.

Main reasons folks do it is that US has a much more reasonable approach to maintenance for light aircraft plus a sensible training/exam approach to the instrument rating.

If the Secretary of state sees the sense in registering his aircraft in the US and having a US ppl you'd think he of all people would be in a position to try and start to address the UK issues.

But apparently not.

Oh deary me......

CAA have now announced they are ending the ability of UK residents to own N reg (USA registered) aircraft and fly them on a US pilots certificate.

Our secretary of state for transport has just been shafted (along with many others) by his own organisation......