JP,
Given your distinguished RAF career, and in particular the post you held between Feb 85 and Nov 87, when many of the Treasury led decisions that so adversely affected military airworthiness over the next two decades were already being made, I think you fully comprehend the points that Tuc and others are making, and I am disappointed that the recent reponses appear to be snide comments. Is this to be the new line from the Air Marshals' Club?
JB