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Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Mar 2024, 10:52
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By Chugalug2

An Inspiration to Us All!

A clear indication that the desire here to uncover the cover up is shared with those who lost loved ones at Mull as we approach the 30th anniversary this year. Herewith yesterday's story from the...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Feb 2024, 09:20
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By Chugalug2

And it seems that some of you still cling to the...

And it seems that some of you still cling to the notion of "My VSO, right or wrong". In their name lies have been told to families, QCs, Coroners, SoSs, Ministers, MPs, HoC, HoL, BoIs, SIs, FAIs, and...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Feb 2024, 00:08
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

JFZ90 The Review got its main point correct,...

JFZ90

The Review got its main point correct, because it was given irrefutable evidence. A 'mandate' was placed upon the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff - that being the RAF was forbidden from...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Feb 2024, 08:36
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

Precisely. My opinion, and again I base it...

Precisely.

My opinion, and again I base it on known facts and my agreement with DFS, is that the Army was applying intolerable pressure to fly the Mk2 with it's intended enhancements. Ironic,...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Feb 2024, 07:04
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

JFZ90 I think the best way to summarise any...

JFZ90

I think the best way to summarise any reply to your points is to remind you that MoD admitted all the ‘claims’ made in the programme; and I think a statement to that effect should have been...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Feb 2024, 03:14
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By Jm1994

Another Year

It is pretty obvious, as we head to the 30th anniversary, 19 years after the MoD apologized to the Tapper and Cook families that something remains rotten with The State.
Not the peculiarities and...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2024, 09:05
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

Controller Aircraft is a 3-Star civilian or...

Controller Aircraft is a 3-Star civilian or Service appointment in (at the time) MoD(PE), in charge of the Air Systems Controllerate. As distinct from Land and Sea.

He received his airworthiness...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2024, 04:16
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

Falcon, I'll leave the book to speak for itself,...

Falcon, I'll leave the book to speak for itself, although when discussing Chinook it concentrates on Mk3. What prompted it was a recent Defence Committee report that, much like any mention of...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2024, 16:25
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

Thanks Falcon, Commercial's involvement...

Thanks Falcon,

Commercial's involvement (they were called 'Contracts' then) would have been limited to escalating it to Director General Contracts, a 2-Star. I can't recall precisely who had the...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2024, 11:47
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By ShyTorque

Possibly if it were upheld because it might have...

Possibly if it were upheld because it might have helped to scrape egg off the faces of some who should have kept it on the peaks of their SD hats.

Pilots didn’t trust the Mk2. Additionally, this...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2024, 09:26
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

Thank you AR. As Flipster mentioned above,...

Thank you AR.

As Flipster mentioned above, a key event in the campaign was the uncovering of the complete Chinook Airworthiness Review Team report in early 2011, issued by the Director of Flight...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2024, 01:47
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By tucumseh

The letter was written on 16 February 1995, after...

The letter was written on 16 February 1995, after the crash but very importantly before the gross negligence decision was made by Day on 20 March 1995.

It is clear from the sequence of events,...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Feb 2024, 22:40
Replies: 117
Views: 39,214
Posted By Chugalug2

Flipster130 :- I think that flipster has it...

Flipster130 :-

I think that flipster has it about right. The aircraft captain was also the detachment commander and had pleaded that the task be allotted to the Mk1 Chinook. He (and others)...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Jan 2024, 13:46
Replies: 28
Views: 9,847
Posted By Chugalug2

True enough, MTM, so what to do? I would first...

True enough, MTM, so what to do? I would first challenge the presumption that the only thing that stirred people over the Horizon Scandal is that we all use the PO. Rather it was the needless cost in...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Jan 2024, 09:00
Replies: 28
Views: 9,847
Posted By Chugalug2

That's the nub of it! He has somehow performed...

That's the nub of it! He has somehow performed the impossible and informed us not only of the arcane world of airworthiness, of how it should be and unfortunately isn't, but of how the MOD...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Jan 2024, 06:35
Replies: 28
Views: 9,847
Posted By [email protected]

David's books are excellent but very sobering...

David's books are excellent but very sobering reading when you have spent your life strapped to some of MoDs 'airworthy' acquisitions........and being required to take every senior officers word as...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2023, 08:20
Replies: 348
Views: 79,855
Posted By Spunky Monkey

There is another culture that is trying to do the...

There is another culture that is trying to do the same it would appear. Its startling that governments for the last 20+ years believed trade would keep the world peaceful.
This brings greed and that...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Nov 2023, 17:52
Replies: 256
Views: 98,737
Posted By ex-fast-jets

I have known many Reds - and served with them. ...

I have known many Reds - and served with them.

I have known a few Red Leaders - and served with them.

I was never a Red myself - but I am well aware of the huge enthusiasm that they bring to...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Nov 2023, 08:46
Replies: 256
Views: 98,737
Posted By BEagle

Now that the feral Reds haters and...

Now that the feral Reds haters and I-know-everything-about-everything posters have vented their spleens, perhaps it's time for more mature thoughts about the Team?

For sure there was a very...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Nov 2023, 10:46
Replies: 256
Views: 98,737
Posted By Stitchbitch

Bin BBMF? My apologies for any egg sucking....

Bin BBMF?

My apologies for any egg sucking. The flight is named for the RAFs most famous air battle and was originally only equipped with fighters that represent some of the types that fought in...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Nov 2023, 09:02
Replies: 256
Views: 98,737
Posted By Asturias56

Try selling that to the Daily Mail, The Excess...

Try selling that to the Daily Mail, The Excess and the Torygraph ...................

You're right of course - but it's not a logical world - we keep the Guards in red uniforms and bearskins -...
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