Originally Posted by
DHfan
Another problem TFC have/had is they only had three serviceable mainwheels and tyres.
That's not enough to fly the aircraft as in the, admittedly unlikely, event of a double blow-out on landing, they can't leave it in the middle of the airfield indefinitely.
I hadn't thought of that...
A TFC engineer told me that some years ago so it's possible that more may have been located since then.
Isn't there also an issue with lack of compatible prop hubs, or was that when they were looking at using non-original type engines, and there were no suitable prop hubs for those? Can't quite remember?
Pete Rushen used to post interesting 'straight from the horses mouth' stuff about the Beau project on the old Flypast forum years ago, before Key trashed it and everyone left.