When your sole job in life is to ensure that your aircraft is ready for display at an airshow, you check, check and check again that all of the necessary paperwork is in place and everything is OK (just like Pleming told us on the TV last week) How wrong can you be?
It would appear from the statement that the fault lies squarely with MA (no big surprise there then) but the responsibility still lies with Pleming and his bunch of chroney directors for not checking for themselves with the CAA that everything was on course and running fine. What else does Pleming have to do for God's sake? Does he make the teas? wash the pots? It's his number one job and priority and he failed, miserably!
It doesn't look good for Yeovilton next week, and if it fails to get to and display at fairford, it must surely signal the end of the project. How can it survive with such losses of income? One thing is certain, the British public will not support it financially ever again under this management.
Pleming, thank you for your apology. It's a shame it's taken you only 4 days to do it, but for what it's worth (and it's not worth much) thank you anyway. As forget says, you will certainly go down in aviation history for sure. Unfortunately, it won't be for anything good.
And to airsound, who has gone very deep and very silent: where are you?
What is your latest defence strategy for the good doctor?? or have you at last seen the light maybe?
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It simply shows the lack of understanding on the part of those groundcrew who think you just take an aircraft, without a P to F and get it airborne under the guise of a 'test flight' - what rubbish. You cannot, FACT. It just shows what a bunch of amatures they really are.
The Winco