Hi Glad Rag, I cant tell you what the RB199 bits are made from but I feel confident enough to tell you that it will be known and recorded. I believe the Engine team under DD6 were ahead of the game in this respect. I shall be seeing the then EA for RB199 in a couple of months. He is giving a lecture on P8 to RAeS at Cambridge. He went on to do greater things.
it is this headline that has disturbed me somewhat having spent many months collating information and plans back in 1998/9 to find that 20 years later Sea King appears to have fallen through the cracks.
That period of my life informed me on many things. Even in my current work I stop work to investigate possible asbestos finds in civil engineering. A few months ago I found some fibre reinforced concrete cable ducts. The fibres turned out to be glass. I did not realise Asbestos is found in some masonary paint. Can’t be too careful.