They have plenty of current in service aircraft to train on at Cosford during their courses. Fairly pointless training them on obsolete aircraft when they need to know how to repair carbon fibre panels on the current in service fighter/bombers - Typhoon and Lightening.
The tech training is very aircraft specific these days. My brother spent his first 10years in the RAF on Tornadoes which were very old school - pop riveting and hammering stuff to fix it then had to re role to Typhoon 2 years ago and then scared the newbies big style when he used a hammer on a component one day!
