OK, I'll rephrase my statement. I am struggling to see a future beyond 2010 in manned fixed wing aircraft. I don't know about the rotary wing side of things.
The company I work for has gone from 4 or 5 civil aircraft products when I joined to none now. As far as I know the company has no plans for any new manned aircraft (fast jet or otherwise) so at the end of the current flight test programmes , what then?
I'm sorry for being pessimistic but I can see my job vanishing in a couple of years time (or less)
JT