Especially with the line "US Army Air Force"!
The Mail must be employing senile WW2 veterans!
Originally Posted by Phoney Tony
Picking up on an earlier point. The RJ has never been 'operationally tested'.
Except in numbers, by the USAF, for decades! Yes, there IS a world outside the UK, strange as it may seem to you.
Originally Posted by Just This Once
Perhaps the MoD is trying to make sense of what they have seen given that the type has been flown by the USAF for decades.
Exactly - and they are being modified from a type the USAF has operated for >50 years.
And each airframe has extensive maintenance documentation, and has been modified to a set configuration identical to that the USAF is currently operating.
But the detractors will continue to blather about "no documentation" and "no configuration control" as if anything not generated and controlled by the RAF doesn't exist.