B52 misses Farnborough

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KennyR wrote:
Eurofighter 2000 seems like a false economy to me. F16 and MiG 29 designs might be inferior, but they're not that inferior. If for the price of buying and maintaining 10 eurofighters, your enemy can buy and run 30 Mig29s for the same price, you're pretty stuffed.

That's why the Griffin exists: It's the most advanced fighter aircraft in active service, and itw way cheaper than the Eurofighter.
:-D

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not keen on that name, the Gripen, and the colour scheme is way off...

Sigh! Women!
/me runs
:lol:

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blobrana wrote:
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not keen on that name, the  Gripen,

Well, you can't really call it "the gripen". In Sweden (or in the rest of Scandinavia for that matter), we don't really have a conterpart to the English word "the". Instead, we put endings, like an, en, or et (depending on the word's gender), at the end of the word. Thus, "Gripen" means "The Griffin"; if you put "the" in front of "Gripen", it would mean "The the Griffin".

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Yes you are, but did you know that if you pronounce "gripen" with a short "i", then it means "arrested" instead? :-P


Make that a long, high-pitched "i" instead

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@Blob
No problem!
You could call it the Grip, although the Griffin would be more apropriate. :-)

That was a cool colour scheme, BTW.