In 2004 the Royal Air Force lost 7, 900 jobs, some training planes, an air base and a squadron of Tornados.
The album closes with "Personal Tornados, " a dream sequence with a gun, a giraffe, fireworks, tiny tornadoes, and wind blown hair.
It seems that, until the weekend before the review was published, the 130 Tornados were for the chop, not the Harriers.
ECONOMIST: Why scrapping the Harrier aircraft looks like a mistake
But two days before this team was supposed to be in Washington, the state of Alabama was hit by a series of devastating tornados.
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Tornados are rated on several scales for strength based either on wind speed, pressure drop, or damaged caused, but the updated Enhanced Fujita Scale is the presently accepted scale in the United States.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of the prime minister's National Security Council, he said that aircraft such as Tornados and Typhoons were vital, "despite what amateur theorists might assert from their armchairs", the Daily Telegraph reported.
Canadian inventor Louis Michaud has created the Atmospheric Vortex Engine, which harnesses the energy of tornados to produce clean energy, and energy companies Dominion and FuelCell Energy Inc. announced plans to build the largest fuel cell power plant in North America.
It was agreed that Britain should move quickly to two types of fast jet (the RAF also has the Typhoon) rather than three, and that retiring the Tornados over the next two years would produce the biggest savings with least harm to capabilities.
ECONOMIST: Why scrapping the Harrier aircraft looks like a mistake
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