Can Wigston survive the onslaught?
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CAS gave a very poor performance yesterday to a relatively sympathetic committee. He appeared to be covering for the chain of command between him and Group Captain Lizzie Nicholl (who felt obliged to resign). The FOI emails show clearly who CAS was protecting. So we have a Dentist and Supplier deciding on vital questions of recruiting and training and the RAF has a Personnel Branch (of which Lizzie Nicholl was a member) not involved! Clearly, professionalism was not a consideration. There is only one answer to this disgraceful episode.
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Harry Truman had the sign on his desk saying `The Buck Stops here`. In my opinion I stress, is there not an honorable option the CAS could & likely should take? Just what must be the feeling amongst a RAF personnel right now. Very sad state of affairs & certainly not the RAF I remain proud to have served in.
After the revelation, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, head of the RAF, was asked if he had presided over a “lack of integrity at the top”. Defence sources suggested to The Daily Telegraph last night that Sir Mike, who wrote the 2019 Wigston Review into inappropriate behaviour of troops, should be considering his position.
I'm surprised that the RAF isn't being done under some false advertising rule for that TV recruiting advert being currently shown that suggests that a female can fly the F-35B........
Jack
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Thanks I just grabbed some prices off the internet which were obviously a bit misleading but I still think that Atlas is a HVA and not what we should be risking on SF ops. I was also a bit disappointed that CAS did not seem to understand that the Committee could clearly see what was needed and wanted him to give them the ammunition to go into bat of his behalf. Instead he stuck rigidly to the party line and was unwilling to admit some pretty obvious deficiences.
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It came out in committee that the RAF currently only has helmets for larger pilots, and that smaller men and women aren't meeting the minimum weight limits for the aircraft, so actually it may be true that women can't fly the F35 with the RAF...
Is the point I think he was trying to make.
Is the point I think he was trying to make.
There are F35 female pilots, https://www.f35.com/f35/news-and-features/lockheed-martins-first-female-f35-production-and-training-pilot-takes-flight.html
https://www.lex18.com/news/air-guards-first-female-f-35-pilot-is-from-kentucky-completes-inaugural
The weight minimum I believe is 136lbs (61.7kg) (9.7 stone). I would suggest most women could achieve that.
https://www.lex18.com/news/air-guards-first-female-f-35-pilot-is-from-kentucky-completes-inaugural
The weight minimum I believe is 136lbs (61.7kg) (9.7 stone). I would suggest most women could achieve that.
Will,
Those are F35 Pilots from the USA.
This thread is referring to the RAF.
Those are F35 Pilots from the USA.
This thread is referring to the RAF.
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For those that choose to comment without watching CAS’s testimony, he said this:
The current UK F35 helmet is not suitable for people below a certain weight.
There is a helmet suitable for lighter people but it does not meet UK standards of head protection. The US use this helmet for lighter people.
Should a light person be streamed F35 the UK would consider buying the lighter ( I think he said £250,000) helmet and “assess the risk “ to that individual, but that problem had not yet arisen.
I’m rather proud of the way I did that without a single male/ female/he/she!
The current UK F35 helmet is not suitable for people below a certain weight.
There is a helmet suitable for lighter people but it does not meet UK standards of head protection. The US use this helmet for lighter people.
Should a light person be streamed F35 the UK would consider buying the lighter ( I think he said £250,000) helmet and “assess the risk “ to that individual, but that problem had not yet arisen.
I’m rather proud of the way I did that without a single male/ female/he/she!
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