Air Vice-Marshal Brian Robinson presided over the Tornado era when it started its robbing and spares shortages phase from early 80 to 91, but he made out this is a new thing he had only heard of last year on Nimrods. I know that people will say that it is irrelevant as there are more Tornadoes and they do not carry as many crew and you would be correct, my point is he implies that was he still in he would not accept what was happening, well he did when he was in and probably still would, so nothing would have changed.
I know the Nimrod is an old airframe, but if there are fuel leaks in the AAR system pipework, then as this was introduced at a much later date what is the link to the age of the airframe structure?