PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - FSTA-When?
Thread: FSTA-When?
View Single Post
Old 31st January 2007 | 10:13
  #80 (permalink)  
BEagle
25 Anniversary
 
Joined: May 1999
: ATP+Mil
Posts: 27,400
Likes: 857
From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Yup - currently only 4 used A310s available worldwide. 3 x A310-324 with P&Ws for sale, 1 x A310-300 with CFs for immediate wet lease........

And yet in 1996 we were considering 24 or so brand new A310MRTTs......

Used aircraft are not really the answer - it's new build which are needed. But since the MoD has never bought a new tanker, always relying on someone else's cast-offs, the fast jet centric airships will still want their whizzy little pointy jets at the expense of all other capability.
BEagle is offline  
Reply