Scaping of Brand New Aircraft

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This to me seems such a waste

Here is the another link

Saltire - I made a huge Christmas cake for the chaps living in the mess with my ExP a few years ago and they had to hide it because it was cooked outside by someone other than Sodexo! FFS!

DB has been a Nimrod Pilot for 28 years, even he says thay have had there day.

but back to the actual subject in hand:

the price of scrap metal is quite high at the moment, so if they sell them once shredded then that will at least show some willing not to carelessly chuck money down the drain...

Why throw good money after bad? This is the 'sunk cost fallacy'.

Suppose your OH spent half of your life savings making a chocolate teapot. It is part finished, and all he wants you to agree to is to spend the remainder of your life savings to finish it off. After all, he's spent so much already and it'd be wrong to let it all be for nothing. What do you say?

They arent new aircraft by any stretch of the imagination. Most of the airframes have been flying 40 years already. It was a refurbishment project. www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/nimrod_scrappage/

sorry dont know how to do the whizzy links thing

I am not going to argue but are the aircraft being scraped MRA4s which are a new design replacing the MR2 (I have a MR2)

HERE is an alternative view.

It talks about a security gap but were they not an important part of search and rescue too

They do indeed talk about a gap but one that can be filled with existing assets. Or perhaps the p8 which can be had for £160m each - off the shelf. So a fleet of new state of the art aircraft for less than 1 years servicing i think!