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Not sure that decision has even been considered never mind made MM
But Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, Britain's top air force officer, delivered a blunt veto from the RAF.
"It's absolutely appalling," he told Reuters.
"It has no provenance, no acceptance and it will enter RAF service with that name over my dead body."
"It's absolutely appalling," he told Reuters.
"It has no provenance, no acceptance and it will enter RAF service with that name over my dead body."
The way he's scorned what is a rather harmless and fun flight test name of Grizzly is IMO "absolutely appalling". Ed S must be mortified. High profile negative PR for a product entering RAF service. Well done. I fear his ego has overriden what little media training he may have had. What a.....
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So C-130 is Wilma, A400M is Betty, C-27J is Pebbles, and C-295 is Bam-Bam?
Or is it that C-40 is Wilma, C-130 is Betty, C-27J is Pebbles, and C-2 is Bam-Bam?
Or is it that C-40 is Wilma, C-130 is Betty, C-27J is Pebbles, and C-2 is Bam-Bam?
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
But Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, Britain's top air force officer, delivered a blunt veto from the RAF.
"It's absolutely appalling," he told Reuters.
"It has no provenance, no acceptance and it will enter RAF service with that name over my dead body."
"It's absolutely appalling," he told Reuters.
"It has no provenance, no acceptance and it will enter RAF service with that name over my dead body."
What an uncirmcumcised penis.