"Aircraft sat in Rubbs awaiting spares "
Ah. There's a solution for that in a Windscale / Sellafield sort of way. They're taking the Rubbs down, so there won't be any "aircraft sat in Rubbs awaiting spares". Good eh?
The situation needs manpower and spares. The RAF has funds for neither. Long term, I believe we will have a big problem with availability in the GR force - we fly the heck out of the inherently serviceable ones as we don't have the manpower any more (even less from Apr 08
) to get on top of the inherently ****e ones. Also, by taking away the AMF at Lousymouth, we are very much putting our eggs in one basket with the limited infrastructure available at Marham. Ergo, trouble ahead.
Just my two penn'orth.
JG
Inflexibility, the new key to modern RAF air power.