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Old 25th Aug 2014, 22:04
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Originally Posted by sandiego89
There are plenty of folks (including on this thread) who moan about all things it hasn't done yet...
Folks have every right to 'moan' given the eye-watering cost of the programme, which may well become even more eye-watering given the F135 travails...
And as to 'things it hasn't done yet...', first flight was December 2006 so, coming up on 8 years of test flying and still restricted to the kind of flight envelope you'd expect of 30 year old, utterly knackered airframes which are due for retirement!

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