Originally Posted by
dervish
LFH
Are you suggesting MoD would get rid of a whole fleet just because they can't prove it airworthy? Surely not.
My suggestion is that we should view the grounding/replacement of any fleet from now on as because airworthiness cannot be assured. Of course, that may not be true, but it certainly was for the ACO glider and Nimrod fleets. So a question mark now hovers over the Hawk Mk1 and Sentinel fleets for example.
The Reds continue flying theirs though, so does that confound my suggestion, or is it merely a cynical move to deflect attention from the trend? Surely not.