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Originally Posted by Dectilion
im stupid, i thought you were responding to both my NZ fixed wing and Aussie jsf questions. You were only responding to the NZ fixed wing one though weren't you. On that topic, personally i think its a shame to remove all fixed wing aircraft. I think at least a token force should be maintained, so the country has some trained fixed wing pilots.
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So do I. A big success during WWII was the commonwealth pilots programme. NZ had the largest number of fighter pilots during the BoB after and Britain and Poland, and quickly overtook Poland in the next few months. The logic of getting rid of the Skyhawks and not replacing them is sound, but we could easily have kept the Aermacchi's and fed the trained pilots into the RAF and RAAF.