XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: trevjon@btinternet.com   
      
   "banana"  wrote in message   
   news:MgfbQVAyzrFEFwRl@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   > In article <1142332245.842898.72850@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,   
   > volcaran  writes   
   >   
   >>banana wrote:   
   >>> In article <1142322703.903292.158590@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,   
   >>> volcaran  writes   
   >>>   
   >>> >banana wrote:   
   >>> >> In article <1142280802.691624.163120@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,   
   >>> >> volcaran  writes   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> >banana wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>> >> >The deal with Iran was for BAe   
   >>> >> >RJ146 passenger aircraft   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> Interested in aviation? :-)   
   >>> >   
   >>> >Why does one need to be interested in aviation to read about the deal   
   >>> >and accurately report what it was about?   
   >>>   
   >>> Why answer a question with another? :-)   
   >>   
   >>Surely the answer is implicit in the question to one whose powers of   
   >>interpretation are as sharply honed as your own. But if it was too   
   >>subtle for you the answer is no, beyond a normal and wholly   
   >>understandable "interest" that any lump of flying metal doesn't fall   
   >>out of the air if I am on board. Having said that I will admit to   
   >>knowing what an RJ146 is (if that counts as a interest) since I have   
   >>flown in them on a number of occasions being used as they are by a   
   >>number of operators for UK regional flights.   
   >   
   > What aircraft are used to take people to Diego Garcia?   
   >   
      
   Last time I went it was aboard a very ancient Tristar of 216 squadron RAF.   
      
   The runway is roughly the same length as Heathrow Airport.   
      
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