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Old 28th May 2018, 07:22
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Heathrow Harry
 
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Originally Posted by VinRouge
Why not use it with P8 instead?
Lets just say the cost and time to refit one or the other would be large and long ... and the record of such attempts is littered with expensive mistakes

Far better to bite the bullet and get something off the shelf that you know works and you can get quickly

Which is pretty much what we did with the E3, the Rivet Joint & the P-8 - no-one wants to risk another Nimrod fiasco....................
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