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Old 21st Sep 2013, 11:25
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Ronald Reagan
 
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There is nothing left anymore. While the Typhoon is a great aircraft they never hardly actually fly. The same can be said of the GR4. Pilots these days must get hardly any flying hours. Once the F-35 comes along I bet it will never hardly leave the ground either as we will have so few of them, most will be broken most of the time and besides its going to be costly to fly.
That's what is really sad, all/most of the older types have gone but we cannot even afford to fly the new stuff properly. Wonder where the money went that used to be spent on the flying hours for the Jaguar, Harrier, Tornado F-3, Nimrod and Canberra also the money allocated for the flying hours of 13sq and 14sq.
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