Originally Posted by
Herod
Ref Fat Albert, Cornish Jack, not quite. Agreed about the Bev, unfairly maligned. However, it used to be said about the C130 that the RAF bought a good tactical freighter and discovered that Lockheed had included, for free, a very good strategic one as well.
Possibly because the RAF, not having a decent large freighter , decided to produce the stretch that should have been done by the USAF years before????