Thank you BEagle. In order to brief myself on the tanker force and not to have to "Hold The Front Page" I looked up the Voyager on the RAF's web site and am now somewhat bewildered. The start of the piece stated that one a/c was flying with another soon to follow. However, further on it said, if I read it correctly, that 10 Sqn was now complete and that another was now forming. The piece also reported that the company Air Tanker Ltd was supplying not only the a/c but also the aircrew!! In addition, if the RAF isn't too busy the company can use the aircraft for commercial work. Can the wise ones out there explain to me, in simple terms, how this works. What happens in war? Do the " Sponsored Reserve Aircrew" say " Not me chief, peace time reserve only" I presume there's a thread about this somewhere else on pp
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