IIRC, Roly, we were told in 1996 that there was a need to replace VC10 and TriStar "within the next 10 years"......
With, as was stated at the time, around 25 aircraft of the A310/B767 category in multi-role tanker transport configuration.
And yet now the living museums the RAF operates are expected to stagger on until 2015? 19 years after we were told that they needed to be replaced before 2006??
