What,you think we should go down the same route as the Australians of 25 years back and transfer everything to the AAC and FAA?
In Paul Beavers - Army Air Corps pub circa 1987 / 1988 - in the chapter on the Future of the AAC - there was consideration of putting the Merlins in AAC service, the talk of the WS-70 pre Heseltine scandal
being in AAC service than RAF
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