Originally Posted by
PDR1
Do you have any evidence of that? I ask because at the time of the 2010 SDSR the first three aeroplanes were on the point of handover to the RAF (they would have entered servive within 90 days) and the RTS was ready for signing.
And the airworthiness world was in a state of churn with the MAA standing up. The understanding from the projects that I worked on at this time was that the evidential bar was being lifted considerably higher.