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Good to have you back, been OOA? T
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So what if our future King gets a Hawk ride? Why not? Who knows, he might see the light and realise that there is better job out there than attending cocktail parties on a grey boat or crawling around in mud!!
This has undoubtedly been blown out of proportion by some tabloid (republican?) so called journalists. I for one would like to know what "senior RAF source" quotes the Hawk as costing £10k per hour. How senior? LAC? SAC maybe? If a Hawk costs £10K per hour then there is something seriously wrong with the maintenance charges. A Tristar is quoted as being £10K per flying hour and even the old and thirsty VC10 is quoted as costing £14K per hour. Obviously the "senior RAF source" doesn't not know his @rse from his elbow!