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Old 5th Feb 2020, 11:42
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Davef68
 
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Originally Posted by cessnapete
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Dunnno, I must ask my relative who was a TriStar/Voyager AAR pilot.
Just seems bad planning for your own AAR assets unable to service your own fleet. Presumably penny pitching on the RAF Voyager spec?
Hindsight is 20:20 - how many boom equipped aircraft did the RAF have when the Voyager spec was drawn up? ( 6 (+1) E-3s and 4 C17s, one of which was also equipped with a probe and the other envisioned as a airport to airport airlifter.) I believe the boom was in the early draft for FSTA but taken out as a cost saving.
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