Gosh this is getting heavy, I just build jets and to be honest have been in the 'hobby' for only a few years, I thought politicians were bad!
I don't confess to knowing Ali well, but I do build a few models for him and he always pays great attention to supplying new and high spec components for all the jets regardless of size and final value, no doubt in his line of business it would be easy to supply items that have been used etc, but no, everything comes brand new - each time.

I appreciate there are always going to be arguments for this and that, hey lets face it the human race is far from perfect, but importantly each does what he thinks is right, others should respect that decision -

Life's too short

marcs