Half a billion ponds to keep the ageing VC10 fleet staggering on until 2015???
YGBSM, as they say.
Whispers reaching me of air and ground engineers taking early retirement in increasing numbers, aircraft being launched with BOTH autopilots u/s (which makes smoke drill in an aircraft with ageing wiring impossible....)
Just hope that someone with sufficient testiculation thumps the table about 'new' tankers pretty urgently before one of these museum pieces falls to pieces.
And the FSTA civil serpent once said "This program will NOT slip"......