That figure of 100 does include the IPAs and ISPAs, but doesn’t include the MAFT (TR001), the DASS ground trials aircraft and the and the German NEMP. There are thus 93 aircraft ‘in service’ a handful of which are in use as GI airframes.

EF 100 was BS021, originally due to have been delivered on 29 September. Like many Warton aircraft, it seems to have been handed over before the planned handover date, though whether it has actually left Warton is open to speculation, since Coningsby is not short of aircraft.

Without the second engine the UK has another reason to cancel.

Without the second engine every US F-35 will have a second-best powerplant.

There’s talk of using a Herti in RAF exercises……

Mach 2.42 on a website that spells the name ‘Rapter’ …….

Nor is anything Metz has said about what speeds it’s still accelerating at relevant.

The only figure that counts is the service limit in the Dash One – eg the maximum speed the service pilot is cleared to, without ‘voiding the warranty’.

Hasn’t India still got a few Canberras?

I came across this response on another board. I’ve edited it a little.

“Gentle turning fellow and Fedupkin man you may hav trolling technic but you have NO knolidge of aerospacial, only a limited comprehension of what you are bubling about and a taste for escapism manure of the sort pedalled by Typhoon fan club superioricist gurus. You are not fit to wipe my beeg Franche harsse.

You’re totally out of your socket. You are living in the cave age. You cant distinguish between your mum ironing plank and the short plank of wood zat I am as thick as. You know too litle your subject to make an impression on ME or any of us for that matter.

You GOT ZILTH but your usual mythological manure

Of course Saudi buy Rafale and not useless not detailed eurofeeter

You’re talking to a guy who was a conscript armourer fitting nuclear bombs to Spad XIIIs at a time your grand mummy weren’t even born yet, so don’t you come up with pseudo-specialist bulls because though I didn’t even make corporal I can spot spin,twist and ignorance on knowledge and experience only.

Go back to primary BOYS you’re not good enough to make the slightest impression on ME, i KNOW far better than you.

When i WANT to learn about anything, i go to the library and look in Jane’s, as i know some libraries for as long as you have been on this hearth. Did I tell you I was Guynemer’s batman, washing his underrpants and socks when you were not even before yet born before then? I was aeronautical consultant to the Emperor Napoleon himself, and before that I took Louis Quatorze flying in my Montgolfier balloon.

You want to know about it? Simple. The Spad XIII is superior to your so-called Typhoon. Renault could builderate better fighter than britis aerospacial who has never desiyned a sole aeroplane fighter on there own. Dassault are Number ONE in the EUs. You should learn to discernate between you silent wishes and reality. Franche is always best, I am always RIGHT, YOU are WRONG. And I’m laughing LOUD. If you don’t like the fact too bad, try suicide, you should have been born French.

Get a life, schoolboys. You are DISMISSED.

If you want ot be of any sort of usefuness you can tell me when the library closes……?”

$115 m?

Sorry, but no.

Average flyaway so far has been $184.733 m

Flyaway last year was the lowest ever at $129.949 m (this was below the quoted production cost and was unrepresentative…)

Flyaway climbs to $141.507 m and $141.477 m in 2008 and 2009, and then to $166.035 m in 2010, giving an average flyaway over the remainder of the programme of $156.356 m.

Weapons system cost is $185.372

Total procurement (not programme) cost $33.159 BN (excluding R&D, etc.) – eg $188 m each.

Dada:

It was averred that: “That figure of 9700Kg was before the strenghthen of the airframe when Eurofighter group start to include some A2G capabilities.”

I pointed out that “A-G capabilities were planned from the start” (and that “aircraft are capable of carrying bombs now, though no-one is actually exploiting this capabilities, and weapons and an LDP will not be cleared until Block 5”).

A2G capabilities have always been there. There has been no strengthening.