I wonder if those at the top nowadays know what a Christmas tree aircaft or hangar queen is, or understand what is involved in the rob (sorry cannabalisation) culture that is abound. The RAF Coningsby station Commander and his high ranking visitor (cannot remember his name nowadays) in 1996 did not know what I was talking about and yet the visitor seemed quite proud that he had slashed the Tornado spares budget by over a million pound and had seen no evidence that this had made any difference to the supply of spares, even the OIC supply was not aware of the scale of the problem.