Westlands have been making aircraft that vibrate, crack and leak for so many years - why should this one be any different? The trouble is how to repair it when it does crack - if it is all composites you can't just rivet another aluminium plate on it to beef it up which is what they did to the last Lynx and the Sea King.
Other than ship-borne operations, the Lynx has no role - it's not big enough for a battlefield helicopter and the British Army have known that for years; it won't compete with the Apache as an attack helo and the cabin is too small for SAR. So more millions of taxpayers money get spent propping up AW when what we really need is medium and heavy lift helos.