I always wondered how much the RAF (or any other air force for that matter) would save if it binned all it's air eng's in favour of technology. Now the technology itself must cost a fair bit, how much would be saved by air eng redundancy over adding the new stuff?
Surely there can't be that many air eng's in the RAF anyway? With a fairly small number of large aircraft and only 1 (ok, probably nearer 2) engs required per airframe, then the costs surely can't outweigh the benefits?
Also, to borrow a theme from another thread, having 3 people up front would increase the flow of food going forward and therefore increase the amount of food to be intercepted
. Just a thought.