…and we can’t re-engineer a tyre valve?

Mark[/QUOTE]

It’s not that it can’t be re-engineered I’m sure. If we can re-spar and make a lot of the airframe bits and even build new FW190’s then it rather smacks of: “Why go for the simple, cheaper and obvious option when this is an MOD contract and we can really cream off the tax-payer on this one and hey, we can even say there were ‘technical development problems’ and push the price up even further than the agreed tender” ! Isn’t this the standard practice with MOD contracts these days, oh and of course build in a few delays as well……. 😡