Oggin Aviator, the VC10K was originally scheduled to get a full-up integrated JTIDS fit and I did quite a lot of work on it with industry. But the beancounters binned it. Then along came yet another of Trust-me-Tone's come-as-you-are-I'm-having-a-war things and muggins here wrote a UOR to get a more austere version fitted to VC10K and TriStar. It was accepted; I then spent most of summer 2000 geting it sorted and did the first flight test as captain with the Boscombe lot. It worked as advertised and was soon operational. But that indolent bunch of back-sliding chair-polishers at Wyton wouldn't fund it after Kosovo, so it nearly died until Bliar had another Bush bum-licking war. Then back it came, thanks yet again to AeI.
The SA provided by friendly PPLIs was good - and when the AWACS lot could be bothered to put other stuff on the net, the SRAP was even better!
And the thanks from the MoD-box for all this?
Nothing. F*ck all, nada, zippo, zilch..... Wanquerres!