Avtur, you rightly praise tucumseh for the breadth and depth of knowledge that he brings to this forum. You might also rightly comment on the consistent way that what he says is generally ignored here.
The usual gripe is one of "thread drift", whereby those who post merely want to wallow in a Boys Own fest of pages from the Bumper Book of Weird and Wonderful Aeroplanes and are not interested in the uncomfortable testimony from tuc that any one of them would fail at the first hurdle because GB plc has lost the ability to put them into UK military service without making a complete Horlicks of it.
Never mind, out with the Ian Allen Observers Book of Aircraft again. Oh look, that's a good one on p52...