Originally Posted by
adminblunty
Can someone tell me why we have a pilot as Air Secretary?
I was chatting with a previous Air Sec fairly recently. He said it was the best job he had ever had. He really felt that he was doing something worthwhile and effective.
Some years earlier another Air Sec stunned his audience when he said that he was reducing the RAF Front Line to 1000 FJ aircrew (P & N). That was when the RAF was 57,000 and before flt ops was invented.
On flt ops, much as nonaircrew handling aircrew careers, I hear there are discussions about returning aircrew to ops.