Wot, me go to Spain? I'm well retired, ta vm and comfortable where I am!
Nevertheless, the esteemed ACM Dalton must have been pretty harassed to talk about "provenance" - my Shorter Oxford (yes, I had to look the word up) tells me it means "The fact of coming from some particular source or quarter; derivation", so his reported reply seems inapposite at the least, but quite possibly only part of the conversation got into the Reuters gent's report.
It's to be hoped that the RAF will manage this time to avoid the diplomatic blunder of naming the Eurofighter "Typhoon". Nice name, but across the Channel/North Sea it was a reminder of rocket-firing tank and train-busters in WW2 which our NATO allies could well have done without. But when UK's current Prime Minister seems to think that the US was our staunch ally in 1940, and Britain was then (already) the "junior partner" ...
What official name the RAF gives to the A400M its users at the sharp end will certainly call it something else anyway, but the upper reaches of the hierarchy will probably never know ...
