Originally Posted by
n305fa
BVCU
"so where now would they find the expertise now ? "
How about Bristol, were the design team, tech support and incident investigation was based, EK was just an overhaul facility, all operational issues and investigation was (and still is) carried out from Bristol. RR are probably the only organisation with access to engine performance data. I think this was demonstrated on the appendix to the report
if you read what went on with Vulcan OEM support and Concorde you'll see this is a very difficult area to find expertise now , my time on Hunters ended in 87 and the knowledge available then wasn't good from them as there was no interest in anything old !