Originally Posted by
Krystal n chips
" And with the minimum of manpower involved, it was very low manpower intensive compared to some types.... ahh many an hour at cease flying wandering round the HAS's and shoving a borosope up the arse end of each engine...
Ahh yes, the early cockpits, the GR1A ish, it looked like it had British designers fingers all over it, here is one I took earlier."
You missed out the delights of an intake / comp inspection where size, as they say, did matter.
That, and the BCV's and the "it looks perfectly satisfactory on my drawing board ! "..British design philosophy.