I agree with Paddy Dickson, in that I think this thread was started for commercial gain, trying to get bad press for the Adour. Personally I was told about this link from my friend in India and I posted on pprune for the first time in several years. As I said, I am a Brit, I am patriotic so I would like to see RR win the contract (anything wrong with that???). My link to RR is sometimes having 2 of their engines under my wings keeping me and 200 odd pax airbourne aslong as the ice doesn't form on short finals at LHR!