Being in the industry I'm in allows you access to news that would otherwise be not in the public arena. So when you read stories in some of the more high-callibar newspapers you have to chuckle. For example, in the Sun this week:
'Flop' jets £2bn sale
Britain is to sell off at least 50 Eurofighter jets for around £2 billion, even though they cannot fly in clouds. Austria is to buy 18 of the jets and Singapore has agreed to buy some. Greece may buy 60 after the Olympics. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is selling on a third of Britain's Eurofighters.
So, err, how does that work exactly? Perhaps the super manouverability is so that they can dodge those pesky clouds, ehem! Or maybe, just maybe, you don't want to buy it and so need to highlight in easily understood terms, things which make it useless so that when you cancel your order it doesn't impact on public feeling too much....
The full, correct story can be found at the Eurofighter forum, a very interesting font of knowledge if you're into that sort of thing.
