Frelon
The MoD put their name on the dotted line a week or two before Christmas but news seems to have got lost in the long holiday break, there was a prilimanary contract for work on a few gliders issued a few months before.
This first contract was a bit slow in terms of glider recovery largely because the scale of the problems had not been fully understood until the inspection of the airframe and the paperwork ( or lack of !) issues had been fully addressed.
There is a lot of inspection work to be done as due to the lack of records and the poor quality of some of the work done in the past so these aircraft have to undergo a very deep inspection and rectification of any defects found.
The delivery of recovered aircraft has started and will gather pace for some time until the aircraft with serious issues that have been pushed to the back of the line are reached. There are also some aircraft that the current contractor considered BER, these are also going to be looked at when all the others have been recovered so it is more that posable that there will be more aircraft returned to service than had been flying at the start of the pause.
The technical recovery is NOT wishful thinking on the part of 2FTS, it is fact, how they sort out the re-staffing of the VGS is not in my baillywick.
Last edited by A and C; 22nd Jan 2016 at 05:54.