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Old 11th Jul 2008, 17:35
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Jig Peter
 
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Talking Moving goalposts (again !!)

There's an item on today's Flightglobal (11th July) to the effect that the new selectors are to be told to give no credit for "extra" capability. So the so-patriotic Pols & Co are definitely going to fix a 767 "win" this time round ...
If NG "lose" (having already "won") they could always pull out and then offer USAF the A400M, which should have got airborne before Christmas - if Marshalls have got the Herc test-bed airborne at last, that is ...
just a thought, as the rest of this thread (like the "contest") is going round in circles, innit ?
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