It'll also be easier to dispose of 2 drum winches in a year or so when they're considered surplus to requirements.
And talking of surplus to requirements, could we run a lottery for how long it'll be before a number of Viking airframes are offered for disposal? They'll have been fully refurbished and with all paperwork up to date and they'll be available for a snip (i.e. much less than it's cost to bring them up to scratch).
On that subject, anyone care to hazard a guess at the true cost of bringing a Viking back in to service? I'm sure I read somewhere that it's around one man month per glider for inspection and paperwork labour but what about the true cost of all the other overheads (if it was a commercial business) from the head of 2FTS down?
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