Betty,
I have only apologised for taking the pi$$ out of SFO, nothing else. I stand by all my comments about you guys flying in an aircraft today that has had, and continues to have major fuel leak problems. Why are you so angry about that?
Why are you angry about my comments of NO bomb bay extinguishant on a new aircraft coming into service? Why is there no foam in the wings etc? When Art S put the jet into the Moray firth, several of the seats detached in the crash. The BoI stated something along the lines of ...'anyone over 12 stone (or whatever) should not fly in Nimrods for fear of the seats detaching in a crash' Do you know how long it took the RAF to implement that recommendation? It finally came in early last year I think it was! That shows the kind of system that you chaps are up against.
Foam in wings - when the C-130 was lost, the BoI stated all kinds of things about foam in the wings blah. As Nimrod is a 'new build' (kind of I know) why are you guys NOT getting that level of protection in a new jet? Don't you think you deserve it? You are claiming that you are spending more and more time out in high conflict areas, where our aircraft have been shot down, so INHO you absolutely deserve all the protection that you can get.
But your not getting it, and it all comes down to cost.
Forget all the stuff about airliners, forget about my 'aggressiveness' and forget about all the other Red Herrings such as 'acceptable Risks' the fact is that you guys are at the centre of a major shooting war(s), and you are NOT getting the level of support you require or deserve, and I feel that is unacceptable.
We are all striving for the same thing here, its just that some of us, who are no longer serving, are prepared to voice our concerns at the continuing use of an unreliable aircaft that is well and truly past its sell-by date. Whats wrong with that?
Betty, I have never-ever said that you sit on your fat ar$es, and I have no doubt that you are doing the very best you can with what little you have got. Unfortunately you haven't got enough, and what you have isn't very good any more, Oh and you deserve better!
TSM