Engines:-
Really sorry if this has bored some readers - but I thought it might help some of the pilots understand what might have gone missing and who might be responsible. My final point - this might look like a really complicated picture, and one might think 'no wonder they had problems'. Dead wrong. For a fleet of off the shelf gliders with no engines, no power flying controls, almost no avionics and simple strong airframes, it should have been an absolute doddle. The RAF need to find out why it wasn't. And fast.
Engines, speaking as an ex-driver airframe, the last word that would describe your posts, or tucumseh's, is boring. Unbelievable at first perhaps, but long since replaced by horror. The RAF VSOs that perpetrated this scandal achieved more than any enemy ever did by compromising the RAF's most basic attribute, the very airworthiness of its aircraft.
As tuc tells us repeatedly, the damage is systemic. No fleet or system is spared, and the very institution devised by Haddon-Cave to cure the Service of this ill is itself compromised and by H-C himself. By not telling the truth, that this was a deliberate and malevolent attack on Air Safety for short term financial return, he denied the MAA the very weapon it needs above all to destroy this canker, its independence from the MOD.
You are right to be angry, NutLoose. Cultivate it and use it!