I should have stayed talking to you all about things that matter. Taggart was cr@p
Orac
Thanks for your kind remarks. Sorry I don’t have the script of the 70’s RN do. (If its very important I NEVER write it down because if you do then somebody with more stripes than you is just going to want it changed to something that is no longer true. Also if you use a script it comes out like you don’t mean it, and finally, what you say and how you say it should depend on what’s happening to the audiences faces as you tell the tale. Easy to wind me up eh?)
At the start I seem to remember excluding the STOVL capability of our current fleet from my remarks that the aircraft have been well kept up to date with kit. The engine story (not buying the big donk like the USMC) has been a sorry one and quite a few people should be ashamed about how they have let the operators down in that regard. The more the FCBA buy moves right the worse will be the eventual situation. Do you think the current delays in respect to JSF (and doubtless there will be plenty more) should be seen as an opportunity to buy some more contingency donks and also fly one behind the FA2 intake? It would make a lot of sense to me.
Sitting on the beach without Pprune would really suck.
JN
If you are a know-nothing journo then I reckon that makes me a failed PPL
Don’t get me started on why STOL is no answer to operating site flexibility or I will make you read WHY VL all over again. Just because you know how to wind me up doesn’t mean there will be no pain in it for you.
Noz Lee
Interesting moniker. Have faith because JF2000 (hey – I like it written like that) is not going to go away as the idea is too sound to give up. Only a dyed in the wool single service guy can argue against the concept that the UK is best served by putting soldiers, sailors and airmen. together in one package and moving them out in one lump. If they paid them ALL 10% more while they bobbed about on the water (for having to put up with each other’s customs) then there would soon be enough guys who WANTED to do it. It also would be an incentive for the politicians to bring em back sooner rather than later. Retention problems are the easiest ones to solve.
JF