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Edmund

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Imagine the perfect flying experience - no queues, a reclining seat, perhaps a glass of chilled champagne.

Add four-poster beds, a Turkish bath for four and somewhere to put the Rolls-Royce - not to mention a boardroom with holographic screens and a concert hall.

Then you've got a £300million flying palace - a superjumbo designed to order for a Middle Eastern prince.

When complete in three years time, the converted Airbus A380 will be the world's largest private jet.

Its fabulously wealthy owner is unknown, but names linked to the plane include Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, owner of the Savoy Hotel. It is being designed to order by the Worcestershire-based firm Design Q.

In a space normally given to 600 passengers, the owner and his guests will enjoy five-star treatment from the moment of arrival.

After driving up to his plane, he will have the car parked in the onboard garage.

A lift drops to the tarmac and a red carpet unfurls, with downlights to 'give the impression of turning up at the Oscars', according to Design Q's co-founder Gary Doy. The belly of the A380 has been turned into a relaxation zone, including a Turkish bath lined with marble only two millimetres thick to keep the weight down.

Next door is a wellbeing room, with the floor and walls turned into a giant screen showing the ground down below. Guests can stand on a 'magic carpet' and watch the journey, a scented breeze blowing into the room.

If work really is unavoidable, the boardroom is on hand with iTouch screens and live share prices projected on to the tables. For conference calls, a business partner on the ground can be virtually projected on to the table to 'join' a meeting.

The five suites which form the owner's private quarters have king- size beds, entertainment systems and a prayer room featuring computergenerated prayer mats which always face Mecca. A lift shuttles between the plane's three floors, from the private quarters upstairs, down to the concert hall, featuring a baby grand piano and seating for ten, and to the garage below.

There are around 20 'sleepers' - the equivalent of First Class seats - for extra guests. According to the designers, the style is elegant curves and swirls of Arabic writing.

Mr Doy added: 'It is something very, very special and there is nothing like it on the market yet.

'There is everything a billionaire could want.

'We are not trying to put a hotel in the air, it is tailored to the needs of flying, and has unique features which fit into that. The Turkish bath is particularly spectacular, a steam room with marble, low lights and lots of spa treatments to choose from.'

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Daggers

Daggers

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End of era for old Nimrods

Commemorations have been taking place at RAF Kinloss to mark the retirement of the current Nimrod aircraft.

The Nimrod has been in service for about 40 years, but the deaths of 14 servicemen in 2006 after an explosion over Afghanistan led to a safety probe.

Squadron Leader Nigel "Buster" Edwards said the planes would be missed.

A senior RAF officer has told BBC Scotland he fears lives could be put "at risk" by the MoD's decision to withdraw Nimrods from operations.

The new Nimrod MRA4 is due to arrive at RAF Kinloss in July for training purposes - but will not be in operational service until autumn 2012.

Marking the last flights of the current Nimrod, Squadron Leader Edwards told BBC Scotland: "The job it's done has been very important. It's had a long and distinguished history.

"We do understand why she is going but we will miss her."

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No and I'm sure Hairy knows that. He was talking about "foot-lovers". (Though I am seriously considering starting the "It's Paedo, Not Pedo, You Halfwits!" thread.) :thumbup:

that really annoys me. They still pronounce paedotrician correctly so why do they feel the need to change the pronounciation for paedophile?

Got to say though the spitfire is by far the most beautiful plane ever made.

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Trav Le Bleu

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Guess where I went today?

No, not Barranquilla.

Here:

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I recommend the Red Arrows' Flight Simulator. :thumbup:

Barranquilla's better, the Magdalena river is particularly pleasant this time of year.

And boom! Here's trumping everyone else's earlier pics, including my own. Iconic death from the skies for any kid raised in the 70s.

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I am Rod Hull

I am Rod Hull

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/17/spitfire-planes-burma-excavation

Dozens of Spitfire fighter planes that were buried by British troops inBurma as the second world war drew to a close are to be excavated after an agreement to dig up the historic aircraft was signed by the Burmese government and an aviation enthusiast from Lincolnshire.

After 16 years of searching and lobbying, David Cundall, 62, has signed a deal to recover the lost RAF planes, which are believed to have been packed in crates and hidden by British forces on the orders of Earl Mountbatten shortly before the United States bombed the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

During his visit to Burma in April, David Cameron reached an agreement with President Thein Sein about the recovery of the missing aircraft. The British embassy in Rangoon said the newly signed deal was a chance to work with the new Burmese government "in uncovering, restoring, displaying these fighter planes".

Excavation work is expected to begin by the end of this month. The number of Mark 14 Spitfires awaiting discovery remains unclear, but Htoo Htoo Zaw, managing director of Cundall's Burmese partner, the Shwe Taung Paw company, said he estimated there were at least 60. Previous estimates have varied between 20 and 36. Even that number would represent a large increase in the global Spitfire population: while 21,000 were built, only 35 remain in a good enough condition to fly.

"This will be the largest number of Spitfires in the world," Htoo Htoo told the Associated Press. "We want to let people see those historic fighters, and the excavation of these fighter planes will further strengthen relations between Myanmar [burma] and Britain."

A local newspaper, Myanmar Ahlin, reported that the excavation agreement was signed by Cundall on behalf of his British company DJC, Tin Naing Tun, the Burmese director general of civil aviation, and Htoo Htoo.

For Cundall, it is a triumphant end to years of hunting for the fighters. He says he has spent £160,000 trying to locate the lost treasure, vying with potential rivals for the deal.

In April, he claimed he had secured financial backing for the planes' excavation from an anonymous investor, and in August told the Birmingham Post he wanted to see the aircraft return to the UK. "Spitfires are beautiful aeroplanes and should not be rotting away in a foreign land," he was quoted as saying. "They saved our neck in the Battle of Britain and they should be preserved."

A Downing Street spokesperson said: "We are pleased to hear that contracts have been awarded, which mean that the digging up of the Spitfires in Burma can begin. We've always said that we want to see these Spitfires back home in Britain – perhaps one day even flying over the skies of Britain – and today's news brings us another step closer to that."

Eye and ear candy :wub:

P51 :yesyes:

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