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Old 1st Oct 2014, 23:12
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Yep, Airwork won the bid, BAe too expensive. 16 frames with required center fuselages replacing nicked from the F2's that were in storage. from what one of my mates at Valley who was detached to help fix them in the mid 1990s told me (he also told me that it was damage to the wing boxes that meant the replacement of the center section, which given their method of construction would have been mega expensive to remake from scratch had the F2's not been available). Airwork blamed the MoD and BAe for issuing incorrect documentation. The links at the bottom of the Wiki entry about Airworks have all the details.

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It looks like they won a contract for work on the RAF Hercs as well and made a mess of that.

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