the Paras are such sensitive souls.

week 1 : separate the men from the boys

week 2 : separate the men from the fools

week 3 : the fools jump

Boris

<<ex MoD employee

"...exit the aircraft from 3000 ft build a try by side downplane fly it vertically at the ground..."

"Think I know what there answer will be"

One for the Twat-O-Tron?

"well done in pissing off 20 paratroopers"

Actually, I'd like to second that sentiment - well done indeed El Reg!

I remember we had some paras do an abseil demo from a helicopter at some event or other when I was a kid - as a laugh they first threw out a dummy which plummeted straight to the ground. Later when they were doing their hero worship in front of the proles routine, I asked which of them it was that missed the rope.

Sense of humour on the part of our brave lads? Oh I think not.......

I assumed it was entirely because the Italian team were all female...

For some, the Paras doing their in-air stunts (IANAP) will be fascinating. For others, a group of presumably scantily clad Italian women will be more interesting, even if the stunts themselves are less stunning. I myself fall into the second category, unless of course SWMBO is watching with me...

So, how long do the Red Devils have to spend, at every US airshow they go to, explaining to the cud chewin' good ol' boys that no, the Red Devils are not commies?

Shouldn't they be called the the Plumberettes or something?

I thought the Red Devils were a aerobics team from the IRF.

Whatever. The Paras are dimwitted, ignorant unprofessional c**ts - second only to the room-temperature-IQ UDR. Anyone who had the misfortune to regularly drive through Ulster in the 70's and 80's can testify to that. Insulting them is just good karma.

Speaking as a former Parachute Regiment soldier myself i fully agree with the lads from the Red Devils. To describe them as humdrum just goes to show that you man has his brains fully lodged in his bellend.

they are without doubt or exception the finest and most highly regarded display team to be fielded by any arborne force around the world BAR NONE!

Oh and the RAF don't get called flyboys generally it's crabs or crabfats as they were said to used bklue unction instead of brill cream. blue unction was used in te treatment of pubic lice better known as crabs.

Also the marines are known as bootnecks but by the Parachute Regiment they are craphats of the highest order.

lewis can blow it out his anal region as ,let's face it , the bellend was definitely a craphat.

this is not to say he was a bootneck but just a non airborne serviceman. all non Paras are craphats and he is deffo one of them.

Paris? as even she'd know not to make such as asshat move!

And you had the gall to bleat about the INQ's spammer suicide story?

You're as bad as each other... two less sites to bother with now.

I remember the heady days when the Reg actually bothered with news...

Had a look at the website you mention. It looks quite easy this parachuting thing. Those coloured jets I assume are there to propel the parachuter's into the target zone.

I think it would be a better idea if the jets on the parachute were invisible. That way the audience would never know they are assisted to the target by computer.

I imagine those big jets steer themselves during the shows also so I guess I would not need too much training. Do you think I be ready to go in a couple of weeks if the training was done at weekends?

I know I am beginning to sound a little cheeky but would I get paid for doing this as well? If so can you tell me where can I apply? I quite fancy a job with lots of travel, fun and fresh air.

... Paris, because she can take a good wind up.

Basically, after reading the amount of cussing and sexual-oriented references in the response, it demonstrates that the Red Devils are wusses in intelligence. If they actually had brains AND balls, they could have responded in a more articulate and satiric fashion, showing that they have more brains than a stereotypical moron who jumps off a perfectly flying aircraft...

Good show Red Devils, for being real stupid.

And with the musical accompaniment of the whistling all the way down due to resonance of the obvious areas - a surefire success!

Particularly if they could arrange the participants in harmony :-)

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

That is all I have to say on the matter!

I'd much rather see Italian chicks rather than British sqadies. Guess that makes me a not inconsiderably sized devotee of the love that dare not speak its name in the eyes of the Parachute Regiment...

The Paras perform cunning stunts, the Italian women have stunning....

I'd say cunning stunts would win every time... oh wait...

Always called mine 'me pink 'at', cos after a few years they fades from maroon to pink. Any way, jumpin out of hairyplanes is just a quicker way of getting to the place where people are waiting to shoot your arse off. They trained us to march long distances - which should give us time for the enemy to have run out of ammo, then they bungs us in a plane and shoves us out of the door while the enemy still has some left. Not fair. Also, you can't go back up and ask the pilot to turn it round and take you back. You've soddin-well got to walk back. Barstards. I've kept my 'pink 'at' for sixty years now as a warning not to be so stupid again - but guess what? Bugger the moaning - if I had the chance to do it all over again, nothing would stop me!

"exit the aircraft from 3000 ft build a try by side downplane fly it vertically at the ground till 300 ft then land on a cross"

Sorry, not being a military bod but that makes no sense to me what-so-ever (as does jumping out of a working plane at alititude!!!). English grammer gone out the jump door ?

Someone should shove Paris out the door

but the public can't see most of a 3000ft drop. Or even much of a 300ft drop- especially from inside a stadium as mentioned in the flame. So given the choice of seeing paras do it or presumably scantily clad italian women doing it, the scantily clad ones win.

It's the same with computers etc (finally, an IT angle for this string of stories...)- people don't care that your computer can do a quadrillion petaflops per second. They'll ask "can it play Crysis"- the pretty aspect of it.

The Paras are, of course, far far more skilled at what they do. And undoubtedly make far better soldiers than any group of Italians.

Title sez it all, really.

I have known a few (ex-)Paras and most of them had got jobs as "civvie" security guards at various defence contractors around the country. Mainly cuz most of 'em thought computers were for p0rn-surfing or downloading games (and man did they hate it when we had to clean the crap off the PCs!) and not much else except the odd email.

That said, even the dumbest Para still seems more intelligent than damn-near all the "special troops" from the other side of the pond. Hell, even the lowest mud-slugging Tommy gets to play with grenade launchers and anti-armour missiles at least once, which I seem to recall are limited to specially-trained Rangers and other assorted "specialists". And even funnier, anyone with more time than a "Private" gets called a Specialist even if they can't do much more than point an assault rifle the right way most of the time...

Jet Noize - The Sound Of FREEDOM! CrabAir for ever!

According to your para comment, regarding the airshows in the USA compared to farnborough, "( all larger and slightly more interesting than Farnborough)"

Well, May I say, as someone who attended the airshow for 7 days on business (not as an exhibitor) the Farnborough air show is the largest non-military airshow in the world (the largest military title held by the Royal Air Tattoo, UK again) and the largest tempory exhibition in the world. - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airshow#Major_airshows or http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25673831/ if you don't want to take my word for it.

Next time you go off on one you ignorant shit, check your facts.

"we kill people we don't know, who've never done us any harm - because the government tells us to"

yes, the military are well worthy of our admiration

"I'm sure that a nude female parachute regiment would have all eyes agape at the sky. :)"

Whistle while you work?

Mine's the one with the straps round the crotch.

...if the dive is technically brilliant. Some of my software is also technically brilliant but that doesn't make it a success. The real world's a hard place. Get used to it.

Or a bridge too far to cross as the case may be !

They'll be followed by the not so pretty British Army parachute team, the Red Devils,

then by the Royal Navy Submariners free ascent bubble head display.

The Crabs will be nowhere around, to busy polishing their hairyplanes.

Never heard of them, obviously. What are they, OpenBSD's marketing team? Whatever. But now I know they are (or at least one of them is) idiots who get so riled up by some comment on the internet (which I felt as being humorous, by the way, like when you say "you know Ferrari, that Italian brand of cheap cars"). I guess someone's got self esteem problems... That's OK, Red Devils, your Moms still think you are the bestest!

Why is it that his profanity-laced throwdown sounds remarkably similar to what I've read from countless greasy fat nerds and teenagers hiding behind their monitors burning with rage and claiming they will "be happy to meet you anywhere, anytime to settle it like men."?

I'm guessing he's got too much testosterone from all the porn surfing. Or maybe he got shutdown by one of the Shooting Stars!

Devil Bill for promoting angry Internet saber-rattling.

"The Red Devils are regarded in the global parachuting community as the best display team in the world and thats not by accident."

Yeah but, do they have tits?

The one with "I love twitching" on the breast, please...

'At first I was scared', admits Yi So-Yeon ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/21/ballistic_soyuz_reentry/

Who knew that the paras were such an insecure bunch with delicate egos? Most people would have taken Lewis' comment for what it was, a joke that any red blooded male would understand. That the paras have no sense of humour is one thing but that they fail to see why four beautiful Italian girls with a sense of adventure would turn heads .... ?

Being at the Farnborough air show, I agree with the lads. They are awesome to watch, and much better than a bunch of wind-swept bints.

but you need to wonder how come the crabs are so bad at keeping equipment in the air that they need to practise so hard at jumping out of it?

...and distract their assault with a grammar correction...

"Think I know what there answer will be"

Their... THEIR!

Mine's the one with the Kevlar.

'You've been c*nt struck by a few fluttering eyelids'? Sonny Jim might be able to land his chute on a cross in a stadium, but evidently needs a bit more practice at finding his way around female anatomy.

Paris, because practice makes perfect.

When the red devils are a sexy all-female bikini team, maybe I'll watch their shows... I'm not interested in Xtreme sports jocks wannabes.

Anonymous. Wannabes can be vindicative.