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    Watch and weep. That is £4billion of our money being chopped up for scrap. The wings have already been cut off one Nimrod, presumably the one that was already flying. Won't any more.

    As Barry says, one lot spends a fortune building something and the next lot comes in, says it can't afford to run it, and chops it up. Labour did it with the TSR2 back in 1965. The most advanced tactical strike reconaissance aircraft in the world, streets ahead of anything else.

    They ordered the planes to be chopped up, machine jigs scrapped, drawings destroyed, so that the other lot could not resuscitate the project if they got back in.

    "All modern aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR-2 simply got the first three right." - Sir Sydney Camm. (substitute Nimrod for TSR2)

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