That isn't the dirty word, Roland. Airworthiness is the dirty word, not only for the MOD/RAF but for many here on PPRuNe. Until the "professionals" for which this site is dedicated face up to the deliberate and co-ordinated destruction of the system that ensured military airworthiness provision and to the cover up that continues to this day, then the needless toll in blood and treasure will continue. The airworthiness of a new MPA, MRA or any other three letter designation, will be as compromised as it was for "N****d". It needs the present leadership of the RAF to bite the bullet, expose the "guilty bastards" who ordered the subversion of the regulations and the removal of those engineers who would not comply, and demand that the MAA and the MAAIB be made independent of the MOD and of each other, before it can start down the long and arduous path of being able to depend once again on its "bloody aircraft".