We will still have crews sitting around only now costing half as much again as for food its pay as you eat at Brize as for training we have already paid for it as the new company is just nicking RAF crews and will keep doing so until they run out then put the price up or walk away. also in time of conflict the tankers are a must and as much as we try to keep them safe they are a target and lets not for get a lot of handling staff will still be RAF. This will end up costing two or three times more in the long run

If it cost half as much again then it wouldn’t be done. The RAF crews are already all trained up on airbuses are they? If they put the price up they don’t get the contract.
Me thinks you need a bit more experience of modern civvy contracts with the military.

My Paternal grandfather was a Vicar and ended up as an ARP warden in Swansea.
On My mothers side, her Dad was a cook with the Paras and went survived Nijmegen and the liberation of Norway. He used to tell great stories of wheeler dealing with local farmers (case of bully beef for a couple of chickens etc).

Back on my fathers side one of his fathers cousins was flying in Blenheims at the beginning of the war and was shot down over France. He ended up in the famous prison camp where the great escape took place, but couldn’t go as he was in hospital at the time.

And to tie the two together… A few of us got sent from Cambridge to Richmond to help Qantas service the ‘H’ model back in 2000. Have very fond and slightly blurry memories of Olympics, Blue mountains and cheap beer!

Looks like the wind down foot you get on a safety raiser or a giraffe.

Looks like the sort of panel that would sit on top of the wing covering up the flaps when they’re retracted.

If I were to ever acquire a historic aircraft, it is quite likely that, having read what is posted on this board over several years, I would specifically try to keep the news from reaching the posters here.

While many of you are excellent people who respect the wishes of others and only post what has been confirmed as true, there are a depressingly high number who see nothing wrong with posting random unsubstantiated rumors, info that has specifically been asked NOT to be spread about, or even bald-faced lies if someone annoys them.

All in all, this is not a place to talk about things unless you are willing to be abused and sabotaged, as well as being helped, applauded, and appreciated.

You could take your post to mean that it’s ok to use the forum to ask for info or if anyone has any parts but not to share what the parts are for……..

I wouldn’t be seen in a French car, let alone a hatchback thing like that…

Oh and the font is incorrect for the year depicted and the colour shade is way off the mark. Too much metallic in your photoshop pallette, bang bang that’s how we do it, blah blah…:p

The last car I saw you in was held together with tins of A 1/2 and flexane! 😀