Are we in this together?

[MrMarkyMark]

£10m in refit costs, so the savings calculated (if they are correct, as usual they appear to have been plucked out of the air) won't start to take effect until somewhere around 2027?

Don't let facts get in the way of the fiction

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

If anyone should have his own plane to fly him out of here, never to return, then cameron should

[PurpleGorilla]

Royals fly in a BAe 146 - ancient!

http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/bae-...k2-and-mk3.cfm

[d000hg]

Seems like a 10m refit should provide a reasonable amount of luxury

£10m doesn't go very far in aviation

Can't see our royals travelling on any old crate.

Fair point there though.

[DimPrawn]

Behind those doors on the $500,000,000 jet, he and Osborne can carefully impose cuts, tax grabs on the middle classes and oversee the bankers bonuses, safe from the looming terrorist threat in London.

[BrilloPad]

£10m doesn't go very far in aviation

It buys quite a few tickets!

[MrMarkyMark]

£10m doesn't go very far in aviation

Generally, I would agree, but, I think It does when you are talking a refit, which suggests to me internal cosmetic work, not an engineering overhaul.

[EternalOptimist]

Generraly, I would agree, but, I think It does when you are talking a refit, which suggests to me internal cosmetic work, not an engineering overhaul.

there will be an engineering overhaul, see my comment about flares and chaff


also consider red buttons, comms, jamming and the cocktail bar

[MrMarkyMark]

there will be an engineering overhaul, see my comment about flares and chaff

Sorry, I'm no au fait with, technical, engineering terms

[PurpleGorilla]

Let him fly a converted Concorde. Get it back on the air, let it roar round the world once again. I'd pay for that!

http://youtu.be/B7wK0cSsJRU