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Old 11th Jun 2007, 22:49
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Fluffy Bunny
 
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You seem to forget that JP233 was desingned as a cold war asset and just like most of the weaponary for that era, it wasn't envisaged that the aircraft would be coming back for a second run. Just give the boys of BAOR a chance to get out into the weeds before the Fitters, Fencers, Frogfoots and Floggers gave them the good news.

You also seem to forget that a major amount of tornado GR crashes, German, Italian and Brit have been pronounced as CFIT by their BoIs over the airframes life. Hence the rise of the joke (Fairly bad taste) in the early to mid 80's "Why don't german farmers plough their fields?.... They're waiting for the RAF/Luftwaffe to do it for them"

On a lighter note (and back on topic) what did people actually think of tonights panorama?
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