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24th Oct 2010, 00:12

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Modern Elmo

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Modern Elmo, I don't get your point. Yes the Nimrods were all different sizes, but it was sorted out.

Once British Leyland Aerospace and your Air Force found out that individual Comets had bespoke* wingboxes, the only sane course of action was or is to abandon ship on the Comet/Nimrod aircraft.

What had those airframes been doing previously? Were they Nimrod I's or II's or former airliners which had been parked for years, or what?

There is no Airbus peer to the P-8 AFAIK just a few drawings which would be 10 years from service today.

There should have been a P-8 competitor, one with British military electronics and engine content on an Airbus platform.

* "Bespoke" sounds like English English, huh?

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