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Old 22nd Dec 2006, 16:09
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Jobza Guddun
 
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Sounds good until you learn that it isn't aircraft coming out of maintenance that limits Tornado availability, it's more the inability to fix first-line snags due to, in no particular order:-

a) lack of spares
b) lack of manpower
c) lack of experienced manpower
d) lack of test equipment (where did all the stuff from Honington/Laarbruch/Bruggen/Coningsby/Leeming go anyway?)

Not convinced that there would be much difference in Depth if it was all blue-suiters, with that much money thrown at it and the changes in place now? Unfortunately we'll never know.

Merry Christmas
Jobza
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