Cats,
I'd like to respond to your last post if I may. There IS something unusual about the Vikings and their airworthiness regime.
First, they have been operated at increased weights, with a series of modifications that the original designers have very probably not underwritten.
Second, they have not been properly serviced or repaired, and documentation essential to any statement of airworthiness has been inadvertently destroyed.
Third, the organisation responsible for their continuing airworthiness was found to be incapable of carrying out its statutory duties.
They have been badly taken care of, to the point where they posed an intolerable Risk to Life to schoolchildren. I'd say that's a bit unusual. The really, really, big concern has to be this - IS it unusual for the RAF?
Answers on an airworthiness audit survey form, please.
Best Regards as ever to all those putting things right so that the kids can fly safely.
Engines
Last edited by Engines; 14th Jan 2018 at 15:46.