Common Sense from the MOD!

[C]

Blimey! It's been announced the RAF will get another C-17! So now we have 4 in service, another scheduled for delivery next year, and this further one to be delivered in 2008/9!

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[Craig.]

Now if they could add a C5, 30 or so A400m's on time and a couple of pilots to fly them, the airforce might just about be ready.

[ozzy72]

About time!

[Chris_F]

I gotta say, I think large high wing jet powered planes are cool!  Kinda like a Cessna 162 on a BIG scale...  :)

[C]

Now if they could add a C5, 30 or so A400m's on time and a couple of pilots to fly them, the airforce might just about be ready.

Nah - if we need anything as big as a C-5, we pay heavylift to bring a 124 along - hence their numerous visits to Yeovilton and Brize...

As for C-17s, we have 4 (ZZ171-174, but a sneaky look at the serial register will reveal ZZ171 to 180 have been allocated - so maybe 177-180 will appear one day)

[Woodlouse2002]

Been an expensive week for the MOD then.