Air Sarko one

[mrmrsmith]

Nicolas Sarkozy orders Air Sarko One plane - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7919338/Nicolas-Sarkozy-orders-Air-Sarko-One-plane.html)

If France can have one why oh why no the U.K.

[NutLoose]

Because no one is selling on a really cheap second hand past its best dog... so there is not one on the market for us.

[StopStart]

We probably could quite easily - sell the current relics and get a couple of BBJs & Gulfstream Vs on a partial wet lease with RAF crewing. Probably work out cheaper than maintaining our present knackered old fleet. So many other countries around the world manage to provide proper VIP transports - why can't we?

That said, I do think the current fleet of 125s and 146s have a very British "Faded Glory" tattiness about them and are a very appropriate way of delivering the architects of our national bankruptcy around the world.... :hmm:

[BEagle]

If France can have one, why oh why not the UK?

Perhaps because, unlike the UK, France still values national pride?

[Economics101]

Perhaps because you Brits, unlike the French, are not carried away by folie de grandeur, and you are not obsessive about those upstart americans.

[Trim Stab]

Perhaps because, unlike the UK, France still values national pride?


Well said, BEagle.

In the UK, "National Pride" is tendered out to the cheapest bidder by management consultants.

[Pontius Navigator]

I thought pride was very colourful and gay :ok:

[Rigga]

hmmmm....!


We could convert several ex-Nimrods to High-Spec People Carriers - they alrady have huge baggage bays and thay also have huge miles on the clock.


We could call em ......Conets?

[Big Tudor]

Or maybe because everytime the point is raised the tabloid press launch a foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe at anyone who even thinks it may be a good idea. "Just think of the number of starving children in Africa that this would feed." Have we forgotten the 'Blair Force 1' debate already?

[barnstormer1968]

NutLoose.
You seem to have absolutely no grasp of the RAF's procurement system!!!!


















If the RAF were to buy an old relic, they would of course first buy a CAT, and
then bodge it into a DOG on the cheap:E

[sycamore]

Maybe he could flog/give his old cabs to Dave and `wossisname` ...