So what will the RAF do now? It has transferred virtually all control of its maintenance facilities to BAE. So how will it reconcile strategic decisions being taken by a foreign company over which it has no control. You could not make it up. The RAF transferred much of its capability to a company which specialises in cutting the wings off vintage aircraft to try and glue ill-fitting replacements on them, and periodically selling re-polished turds back to the MOD. That company is now about to pass into the control of a foreign company which is heavily backed by respective governments, who don't always hold the well-being of GB to their hearts. Mind you, if I worked for EADS I would be afraid, very afraid. I can imagine the conversation now. "Right boys we're just taking this Lancaster bomb aimers sight, nailing a sewing machine motor on it, and using it as the new freight door operating mechanism for the A380". "What, you want drawings"? "What happened to the last park drive packet I gave you? "All the info was on that".