Getting back to the original point about the status of the Nimrod MRA4.....
I thought the contract was due to be signed at ministerial level in Dec 05. To the best of my knowledge it has still not been (and no doubt that nice Mr Browne will be too busy 'reading into his brief' to do so for a while). Presumably this 6+ month delay will result in further overall delays in the project, or are BAe at Warton and Woodford going ahead at full speed at their own risk in 'anticipation' of a contract actually being forthcoming?
Hopefully somebody out there has some actual news, or is it all 'commercial in confidence', etc.....