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I have no recollection whatsoever of your assertion of a 'Mutiny' within Treble One during 1968. I think I would have noticed!
I do not dispute your view on the maintenance problems of the Lightning. Procuring an experimental aircraft as a front-line Interceptor without a major redesign of the basic systems is never a good idea.
I could expand to comment upon range/endurance and inadequate weapons carriage capability. Those issues should be history - but there is always STOVL JSF to contemplate!
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