Originally Posted by
just another jocky
I also heard that when they lined them up outside, they were of different lengths too.
Completely true! They used to line them up at Cranwell (with often only the first few actually serviceable (we knew this because they used to get us studes to help out as line controllers sometimes)) with the prop spinners lined up to the millimetre, wander to the back of the aircraft and it was a wavy line of rudders all the way down.