This had been planned for years, aircraft if i remember rightly change places on Majors to allow it to happen... Press releases have been put out that she would be retired to the RAF Museum on numerous occasions..
I am sorry this just makes the RAF look like a second rate bunch of cocking idiots, how else can one look at it, to plan years ago the maintenance of the fleet draw down aimed at this specific day, someone surely must have came to the decision that she could indeed land there..
At the 24th hour to say no it cannot get in makes it look like the right hand does not know what the left is doing... Farcical comes to mind
I wonder if this will be the thing the CAS is remembered for? rather like the AVM that flipped the BF109 and turned Black 6 into Black 9.
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Last edited by NutLoose; 30th Jul 2013 at 11:52.