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An intro : Item 1 :

Item 2 : Stealth Bombers.

These are the sort of planes that good-guys fly :

(from this most excellent site - if you like that sort of thing)

And for a long time, that was the general design direction that our own planes were taking. Recently though, they’ve started looking like this :

Does that look like a good-guy’s plane to you? No. It looks like a Hollywood fantasy from an Evil Empire. It looks like a cylon raider off Battleship Galactica.

And our police have started looking like this :

They’re dressed like the ones in Terry Gillam’s 1984-esque Brazil. They didn’t look like that when I was a kid. They were friendly then. Now they have their faces covered up, and the whole point… is theatre. They’re deliberately trying to look frightening.

The reason I wrote all this of course… the thing that set it off was this :

Which is a new prototype UK fighter pilot helmet… and looks like something that would give Darth Vadar nightmares.

Personally I tend to go for jeans and t-shirt, and I need a haircut - badly… so I’m still a goody. Not sure about these other people though. They worry me. No good can come of dressing up like this. It isn’t healthy - I mean why can’t they just get their kicks by dressing up as women, like normal people?