Beagle,
“is that really what the Rental Air Farce is reduced to these days?”
Oh come on Beagle!
Robbing is as old as the Air Force and you know it. Are you seriously telling me that in all your time with Aunty Betties flying club you were never aware of; hangar queens, spares-ships, Christmas trees, etc etc etc. Especially if you spent time on the F-4 and Buccaneer!
The early days of the Toom in RAFG were notorious for robbed aircraft scattered all over Bruggen and Laarbruch, as soon as a jet entered any stage of servicing it was like witnessing a decent car parked up unattended in a Liverpool back street!
Changing the terminology to something like cannibalisation is rather funny though…………….
What do they call Rob chits now?