Originally Posted by
JulieAndrews
All the machines touted so far in the aviation press will come in very pricey for what will be a 'stop gap' machine - all be it a long gap if traditional new project intros are anything to go by......Not sure we'd get value for money opting for an unsuccessful Leonardo design or an over-egged AH one.......As for the 525, behave yourself
I mean, let's face it, we're not going to see shiny tilt-rotors in RAF colours until what? 2045 at the earliest? At the recent RAeS lectures they were talking 2040 iirc for the NGRC, and openly admitted that to achieve that they needed to have already started work. So worst case (best case?) you'll see 20-25 years of life out of the fleet, and that's in the Puma replacement role, let alone any of the other more niche jobs.