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Old 20th Jun 2014, 15:15
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PeregrineW
 
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Secondary servo pack on a Wessex...a rigger job, natch. However, on 240OCU the riggers wouldn't change them until the poor insty had changed the associated servomotor in situ. Swine of a job, you needed six inch long fingers with integral wire locking pliers to get it done.

The yaw servomotor was a much easier proposition, it was on the transmission deck and you had good access all round. I only ever had to change one of those, and wouldn't you know it, the a/c had gone u/s in a field in Norfolk. In January. In the snow.

Central suppression unit on a Tornado. The bit they started with: the rest of the aircraft was built up around it. Gazillions of cables and no access.
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