Exrigger - I commend your patience.
TD - As exrigger said, we are aware of your loss, I was on detachment with Ben and went flying with him several times. But as exrigger and yourself pointed out statistics can be made to prove anything. Yes, there were up till a couple of years ago 24 Nimrods. How many were there in 1987? 32 I believe were upgraded to MR2 standard in 1982, plus the 3 R1's.
Beware statistics and numbers.