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  1. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    Well, then it pleases you that Ilmari Juutilainen, top ace of FiAF, shot down 94 confirmed enemies, among them few hurricanes flown in Russia by Brits. Churchill also declared war on Finland... so we are brothers in arms! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmari_Juutilainen
  2. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    Those were the days... Spitfire and Hurricane. Great planes and great pilots. Who is the Indian ace of WWII with most victories on one?
  3. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    If you mean blond and talented? not all, but most. If you mean quiet and straight to business with no BS smalltalk..then definitely yes. If you mean that earn 30 Million Euros a year with car mechanics second level education.. then unfortunately no. If you mean live in nice house and have...
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    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    Kimi is always Kimi, Bottas is maybe his successor at Ferrari, like Kimi was Mika Häkkinens successor at McLaren in 2001.
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    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    In Finnish doctrine all air force activity will be moved to road bases. Air force bases are too dangerous because of Iskander threath.
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    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    Because of budget cuts of military, they try to find new means of income. After problems with school violence a special School Patrol ( SP ) was established. They patrol schools and train teachers and schoolchildren to defend for themselves. In Finland military is not only for crisis time.
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    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    four lane, some six lane are close to big cities, but they are very few...
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    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    There was a huge pr-campaign in the press to notify the public. It worked, only few warning shots were fired. No actual cars have been hit so far.
  9. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    We used to have problems with speeding in our roads. Not anymore after police asked help from the military. Police radio the speed and after some warning shots they usually slow down.
  10. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    Nice roads, I never thought that this class of roads are in India. You could land Airbus A380 in there ;)
  11. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    these exercises are quite an amusement and a lot of people come to watch them, barbecue and drink beer
  12. jouni

    IAF jet lands successfully on Yamuna expressway

    Congratulations...We are lucky that our F/A-18s are with twin-engines. They are powerful enough to take off from quite short and narrow roads. Also arresting cables are used to stop the planes in a very short distance. This way we can use also normal roads which are not known to possible enemy...
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