Green Granite,
Could you let us know the location of your source, DE&S or MoD? As it would be nice to know the aircraft would be completed and not sold to the local scrap metal dealers.
If they were going into storage, they would have to be flown there since Woodford will close and be turned into a housing estate.
One would also assume that the issues which caused it to be grounded would have to be remedied before the aircraft could possibly fly again. I imaging that BAE are still working on the project because DE&S have yet to formally cancel the contract. With the massive cuts in civil servants at DE&S they probably have their own self interests in mind like finding a new job rather than pushin through contact paperwork.
Frustated....Too right, not with Cameron, but with BAE for not being able to build an aircraft that they said they could to get the contract in the first place.