Second Tornado GR4 lost

[Bridon Bear]

I saw this headline just now where a second GR4 from Lossiemouth has been lost this afternoon, the crew have ejected and have been hospitalised. Hopefully they are both OK but it prompted me to look at the cost of this loss of this aircraft wise in this cost concious time and I was amazed at the info on this site http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2010/11/p ... r-25-2010/ and cannot believe what I am seeing.

The MOD calculates the full cost of aircraft per flying hour. The current rates for our fast jets are shown in the table. These figures include forward and depth servicing, fuel costs, crew costs, training costs, cost of capital charge, depreciation and amortisation. The Typhoon cost per flying hour reflects the build up of the fleet with small numbers of aircraft currently in-service. This cost will comparatively reduce as the fleet builds and is expected to be similar to our other fast jet fleets when we reach a steady state position.

Financial year 2010-11
Aircraft Cost per hour (£)
Tornado GR4 35,000
Typhoon 70,000
Harrier GR7/GR9 37,000
Tornado F3 43,000

Still did not find out how many millions each GR4 costs but going by the operation rates then it must be mind boggling.

Regards

Bridon Bear

[gordon-in-aberdeen]

If anyone's interested, the kite's still in one piece on the grass
Photo here of her on the BBC web site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-n ... d-12427228

There's talk on pprune.org at http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/ ... t-2-a.html of it well and good photos etc on Fighter Control http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/v ... 8&start=20
though their thread in question is members only, so sorry if you don't have ascess.

It sounds like the crew took the sensible decision to bang out after it lost control and left the runway heading from something that was gona hurt them. No word if they are Ok yet though, so hope they both are OK



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