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Air Sarko one
Nicolas Sarkozy orders Air Sarko One plane - Telegraph
If France can have one why oh why no the U.K.
If France can have one why oh why no the U.K.
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Because no one is selling on a really cheap second hand past its best dog... so there is not one on the market for us.
Champagne anyone...?
We probably could quite easily - sell the current relics and get a couple of BBJs & Gulfstream Vs on a partial wet lease with RAF crewing. Probably work out cheaper than maintaining our present knackered old fleet. So many other countries around the world manage to provide proper VIP transports - why can't we?
That said, I do think the current fleet of 125s and 146s have a very British "Faded Glory" tattiness about them and are a very appropriate way of delivering the architects of our national bankruptcy around the world....
That said, I do think the current fleet of 125s and 146s have a very British "Faded Glory" tattiness about them and are a very appropriate way of delivering the architects of our national bankruptcy around the world....
hmmmm....!
We could convert several ex-Nimrods to High-Spec People Carriers - they alrady have huge baggage bays and thay also have huge miles on the clock.
We could call em ......Conets?
We could convert several ex-Nimrods to High-Spec People Carriers - they alrady have huge baggage bays and thay also have huge miles on the clock.
We could call em ......Conets?
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Or maybe because everytime the point is raised the tabloid press launch a foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe at anyone who even thinks it may be a good idea. "Just think of the number of starving children in Africa that this would feed." Have we forgotten the 'Blair Force 1' debate already?
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NutLoose.
You seem to have absolutely no grasp of the RAF's procurement system!!!!
If the RAF were to buy an old relic, they would of course first buy a CAT, and
then bodge it into a DOG on the cheap
You seem to have absolutely no grasp of the RAF's procurement system!!!!
If the RAF were to buy an old relic, they would of course first buy a CAT, and
then bodge it into a DOG on the cheap
Maybe he could flog/give his old cabs to Dave and `wossisname` ...
