MSOCS posted (quote facility unavailable)
I personally don't think using the excuse of the Program's maturity, as a metric to judge whether it should be turning up to a couple of UK air shows, is valid in the slightest. To use your line of reasoning, why hasn't a full Tornado display turned up to a UK air show over the last few years, given that it's 40 years old?!! Comes down to priorities.
I was using it as an illustration of how bad the situation is vis a vis the actual usefulness/availability of of what should by now be a maturing aircraft,comparing it to a geriatric flying fin is er a little bizarre
Non of the F35 supporters seem to even question why the turkey has still not done a ski jump - surely a key test point for the uk - mon amis.