== Not a pound for air to ground == 

 Despite all the talk about the Tiffie being an air superiority fighter/interceptor it seems genuine plans are being laid to make it a bomber as well. Flight International has an interesting article about plans for training aircrew. Has some other interesting points too such as operational history and whether or not the plane will make its combat debut in the only likely UK warzone, Afghanistan. We can but hope they regain some sort of peace over there before the Tiffie gets its chance. More money wasted no doubt. Maybe there are still some ex-Jaguar jocks around who can pitch in. 

 It ends with a salutary point that the RAF's first Typhoon qualified QWI course for multirole pilots when it starts in 2009, will be the first of its type since it retired its McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms (in?). 

 See: 
 http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/03/07/222064/uk-to-trial-multirole-typhoon-training-syllabus-but-afghan-debut-in-doubt.html