"Anonymous" wrote in message
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Ian Craig wrote in message ...

"ArVa" wrote in message
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Another gratuitous statement.... "Always"? What about the Concorde, the
Jaguar, the Alphajet, the Mig AT, the Tiger and the entire Eurocopter
line-up? What about Airbus? What about EADS? What about the ATR family?
What
about SNECMA working with GE to produce the CFM-56, one of the most
successful family of jet engine ever? What about all these successful
partnerships and some I may have forgotten?...

You'd have got me if you hadn'#t mentioned Jaguar and Alphjet, and
probably
MIG AT. They've not been that successful? The others have.

The SEPECAT Jaguar has been in service with both Frances' own air force
and
the RAF in the UK for a long time.

I remember the name Alphajet, but not the aircraft.

Cheers
Graeme


Yeah, but its not exactly a brilliant aircraft? The only reason its still
in service is because fo the recent engine upgrade(if you can call it that),
and the fact that the air planners don't believe its role can be performed
by anything else in the RAF.