>> Firstly Nimrod MR4a is 90% a new aircraft. It was PAID FOR and a few
>> months from service. The cost to scrap it was 200million, which would have operated it
>> for years.
I think that was the cost of one years operation.
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>> Piper Alpha? Nimrod had high speed transit and was able to loiter on the scene
>> for hours directing the rescue effort. No other aircraft could do that.
>>
Can't disagree with you on that, or pretty much else you wrote, i've no doubt there are people who are alive today thanks to nimrod and her crews throughout the last god knows how long the ARRC and nimrod have been helping people in distress out to sea.
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