ZH - To get it right the Stretched MK3 consists of a 100" plug aft of the flight deck and a 80" plug aft of the Para Doors.
Lukey - I too saw the original press report which actually said some units in Iraq may have to wait an extra month for roulement due to lack of correctly equipped RAF AT to extract them.... IRCM etc
Riley - When I was a young man in the mob we had an AT Fleet in excess of 280+ frames in strength - Beverley, Hastings, Hercules, Comets. Argosy's. Andovers, Britannias, VC10s, Twin Pioneers and even 3 Dakotas still flying in Aden! Amazingly it was the predecessors of this Labour (Let's start a war mob) who chopped a lot of types in cost cutting exercises - Brittania, Belfast, Argosy etc. I'm sure if we had the will (the cash is there) we could buy some surplus SD330, Skyvan etc from someone?
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