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Old 27th Jul 2016, 08:43
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Chugalug2
 
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1.3VStall:-
I would be moved to ask my MP to investigate why the RAF - which operates state-of-the-art platforms like Typhoon, Voyager, and soon Lightning II, - is incapable of assuring the airworthiness of a fleet of simple aircraft with fixed undercarriages (thousands of which operate safely worldwide).
In which case I would advise him not to assume that the state-of-the-art platforms that you list, or indeed any aircraft or systems currently in use, are airworthy. One of the default MOD procedures following any airworthiness related accident is to stove-pipe discussion to that particular fleet rather than promote the obvious thought that such deficiencies might affect other fleets, other systems. As has been stated here time and time again, these issues are generic, there is a systemic problem in UK Military Airworthiness Provision to all UK Military Airfleets, it doesn't work and hasn't worked for decades.

Haddon-Cave is quoted and revered as if it were holy script. It is instead part of the disgraceful cover-up of VSO incompetence, malevolence, and gross negligence. Faced with evidence that clearly laid down the time-line of cause and effect as starting back in 1987, it could have created the foundations of a reformed authority that would enable the return of airworthiness to the UK military airfleet. It chose instead to distort that time line to the extent of labelling the time of the suborning of the regulations as a "golden period" of airworthiness, and recommended instead the establishment of the toothless and clueless MAA.

Why would it do such a perverse thing? Simply to protect those VSOs who were responsible. It chose instead to name SOs who were staked out as scapegoats to protect those guilty VSOs. But all that is par for the course in British Establishment self protection. The difference here is that an opportunity to return the UK Military Airfleet to airworthiness was missed, and our airforces remain thus compromised until real reform happens. More treasure and blood must be lost until then, and the fighting capacity of those airforces will continue to be compromised likewise. All this to protect those guilty old men...

Lack of airworthiness is like a canker. You can be blissfully unaware of it and carry on as normal. All appears from outside to be well, but little by little it is gnawing away at the innards and eventually, and too late to avoid, will have its way. Thus 63 deaths have been ascribed as such on this very forum. Whatever hit the ACO has taken it has been mercifully spared that. Others must fly to defend us, not knowing for sure about the innards, and having those who only do blood letting with leeches as a palliative to reassure them. Ask your MP how he feels about that!
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