Sixteen Blades - I am afraid that your comments of behaviour and accountability don't really match past conduct. There are a great number of instances where aircraft have been damaged and aircrew killed for no apparant reason. Your simply very wide of the mark to suggest that aircrew always come clean - sometimes they do but often there is just a smoking hole.
As for the other comments - we are indeed spending large sums of money on charter aircraft - however rather than buying
747's - we should buy more Tristar's to bridge the gap with the long term intention that some fly to St Athan for spares reclaim.
The cost of a secondhand Tristar is somewhere near $3 million -
far cheaper to do this than keep the RAF's contribution to global
warming - the Ten flying for much longer !