Big fuel penalty with two seat Typhoon. Better to put the CFTs on the aircraft as it was designed. When I was the EF man at AWC, I had to fight very hard to stop VSOs, who did not understand the issues, from trying to turn it into a two seat jet. I would loved to have had a two seat, long range version, but without another redesign in a four nation consortium the only way to do it would have been to take fuel out to put a seat in.
That is why the two-seat version was not considered an operational model.
Last edited by Courtney Mil; 16th Jun 2015 at 21:43.