Well, there you have it!!

lol shirl!!! The NIMROD is an early warning and Maritime Reconnocense AIRCRAFT. Serves the same role as your AWAX but doesnt have that great ugly dome on top.           Think it might sink if we do as you suguest lol

Lol Shirl, before long their wont be anyone working either with all the cuts being announced (Actualy, I dont think its as bad as they make out realy) I think they (the colition Government) are playing 'mind games', ie, tell everyone its in a bad way, thenas they make their  'planned' cut's, get rid of all the 'waste' at the same time. Rather like being told by your old  school master to go to the staffroom for punishment and once there only getting a good ticking off instead of the cane. Funny really that all the 'mess' has been made due to bad Management but its the working people, the old and the sick, that have to suffer for it.

thanks for that Paul

I used to work for a BAC contractor making aircraft parts. Its little wonder why they cost so much, its the way the MOD purchased their equipment. As an example they would set a price for a part, be it a small part such as a rivet or a larger part (within limits). The price would be say £10 per part, so they would get the larger part for £10 but a rivet would also cost £10. Meaning a bag of 500 rivets would cost £5,000. Unsure if this still happens today lol