Courtney's disappointingly close to the truth there. I remember reading an extract from Hansard when some bestarred officer was being questioned in Parliament.
One MP actually said something along the lines of "you want us to order 232 Typhoons, but you've said by 2015 you'll only have 100 qualified pilots. Who's going to fly all the rest of them?"
I admired his restraint, assuming the Hansard text was accurate.