Procuring new aircraft
I came across a video on line showing the development of the Buccaneer, in all from inception on to first flight it took a mere 33 months. Can't help thinking why is there always such a mess with delays in these days come new contracts,Typhoon, MRA4 (789 million over budget and 9 years late before scrapping), A330 etc? Now I understand that obviously things are a lot more technical and no doubt politics does it's fair share of damage more than those days, but back then they had their fair share of hurdles to overcome too, Blackburn for example had to manufacture their own machine tooling as the supply from America would take 2 years to deliver, quite something when they had never undertaken anything like this. The Beverley had been their previous offering, the Buccaneer developed into a superb aircraft in its own right, just what has gone wrong ?
Last edited by light_my_spey; 18th Aug 2013 at 08:05.