Hiya Fergineer, hope you are well. Your reference to Omani Hercs suffering similar Bleed Air Duct failures perhaps indicates that it was not limited to the K. As I ended my time as a team manager on second line Minor servicing I know that the ducting was only inspected visually, with no NDT of welds etc carried out. Perhaps more serious stuff was done by Marshalls on Major Service. As a trade based Airframe man, my GE career seemed swamped by Loran F and C comp failure. Now, I'm no expert but I believe that Loran was a descendent of the Gee system, used at the latter end of WW2 by Bomber command. So why in the 1990s we still had problems with it is a mystery to me. Perhaps an expert like DougieM could enlighten us. Beware though, I once asked a Nav to explain Loran, and fell asleep on the bottom bunk as he opened up his Loran chart, with all those diamonds on it. PFM, but capable of failure.
Smudge
