DERG
The Executive executes, he/she implements, enforces, and Leads. The Leadership may be Blessed, or not, and 'one monkey don't stop no Circus'.
Politics has as its main objective to distract, to Puff, to Bamboozle. Corporate Politics are no different. There is more Cachet than Cash, Eh? Personnel are interchangeable at the highest levels. The Board is the secret to navigation of troubled waters, and firing or resigning are popular arrows in the group's quiver.
Stock Price, Brochures, and Numbers. Engineering has become a supporting player.
Now that "Q" has passed, Rolls is at the mercy of Three Piece jackals who understand more about Money and Illusion than Oil and its Perfusion.
Turbine D
Thanks, very much, Sir. Cockpit alert for metal bits is as you say, "Huh"??
ACARS is the venue for maintenance, and even Total Care takes a minute to find out the good/bad news. If the ECAM shows metal in the Vickers, (Ten Minutes after wheels on), the mechanics start to decowl and place the Muirhead Vatric Magnets in Place, to narrow down the Trail. The a/c takes off again, next landing Sherlock and Watson get to work. Each magnet plug has a check valve so as to not spill oil in removal, the plot was well thought out in the first place. It is not so desperate as it sounds.
Correction?? I think there was a September amendment which allowed Rolls to average wear of the Splines as a Coupling UNIT instead of Strip if ONE Spline was found with minimum Crest Metal. The "Crest" had 2.65 mm of showing metal at its crest on assembly, and EASA and Rolls determined .5 mm was bad enough to warrant an off wing strip and "replacement". Later (September) Rolls was excused from the "hardship" of strip in favor of a more lax regimen wherein all Splines were measured, and strip was commanded if the "average" wear was .5 mm. Then comes November 4th, 2010, etc. etc.
just sayin'
Last edited by bearfoil; 18th Feb 2011 at 14:31.