Turner and ASTRA
I agree completely with Easy Street's earlier post. Having been forced to sit through Turner pontificating at Shawshank a few years ago, I came away with the distinct impression that his immense ego and ambition are the main driving forces that produce the numerous visions for unachievable vanity projects that he loves to try and impress everyone with, instead of sensible, pragmatic and achievable solutions. Only the Treasury and the current economic situation will determine how the RAF are resourced and what can subsequently be achieved, no matter how many cloud-nine visions he chooses to generate. He has a track record of having introduced poorly thought through visions that subsequently failed to achieve the desired effect and I confidently predict the ASTRA will only add to this list.