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Monday, November 04, 2013

Safety fears ground RAF's spy plane

RC-135 Rivet JointThe delivery of the first of the RAF’s new £660m fleet of spy planes has been delayed after safety chiefs failed to sign off on its airworthiness.

Military top brass had been scheduled to greet the first of three RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft when it arrived at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire on October 23 but the absence of the so-called release to service certificate meant it could not have been flown by British crews.

The delay has frustrated RAF chiefs, who had hoped to put the plane, which they will call the Airseeker, into frontline service next spring as a replacement for the Nimrod fleet that was retired in 2011.

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