Not just choppers

It is not just helicopters the RAF wanted to get their hands on. When they wanted the money to get the then new fangled Tornado, they convinced the MOD they could provide air cover to the RN anywhere in the world. Unfortunately their plan involved digging up the whole of Australia and moving it 700 miles east! Still it worked and the old Ark Royal and Eagle were decommissioned along with their air wings.... And still at it today!