Originally Posted by
Vendee
I ended my RAF career in the engine bay at Marham in 1994. I returned to Marham as a civvy in 2008 but on Tornado not the engine bay. Oddly enough a couple of years later I was asked if I was interested in a temp job at Bristol, apparently teaching the Bristol staff all about RB199 deep strip and repair. By this time I was working on the Apache full time so I declined. As for RR reps, I obviously knew a few but the only ones I remember are Seamus O'Conner and Brian Weech (spelling?). Also John Brand at Marham but we worked together at Honington some 20 years earlier.
Excellent. I know Seams and Brian well but not John.
The transfer of RB199 repair from Marham to Bristol went well with some help from the RAF.
It is interesting that Bristol built engines eventually turned out to be more reliable. A number of reasons which I ought not go into in this forum.
Anyway, this will all pass into history in a couple of months for the UK while German, Italy and Saudi Arabia fly on for a number of years.