What a shame to see a story like this.. why? Because I bet nobody has the balls to do it again next year. (I hope that the senior bods prove me wrong here.)
I was based at Odiham 8 years ago and my family loved their ride in a Chinook and still talk about it today. We all know that out of a fleet of 40, constantly flying the t*ts off of 10 in theatre is not easily maintained when you take out those in deep maintenance, intermediate maintenance, modification programmes, used for training crews in UK, UK standby commitments etc etc..
Keep up the excellent work Wokka fleet and treat garbage like this article with the contempt it deserves.