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Forum: Military Aviation
5th Mar 2024, 09:01
Replies: 89
Views: 25,794
Posted By tucumseh

While not making light of an extremely serious...

While not making light of an extremely serious allegation, I am utterly shocked that some parts of MoD still get expenses, while others have to fund (e.g. travel and subsistence) from their salaries....
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Feb 2024, 00:08
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
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: 39,057
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: 39,057
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
26th Feb 2024, 05:12
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

Arrogant and dangerous? Definitely. They were...

Arrogant and dangerous? Definitely. They were found guilty of gross negligence for refusing to commit negligence.

There was a disagreement between the Board member and Reviewing Officers as to...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Feb 2024, 18:51
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

There are some known facts that bear repeating: ...

There are some known facts that bear repeating:

Sqn Ldr Burke had previously flown the Mk2 in Philly. (While I say 'Mk2', to Boscombe it remained an unairworthy prototype for many months after the...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Feb 2024, 16:50
Replies: 73
Views: 14,547
Posted By tucumseh

No problem T&B. They never once let me down, but...

No problem T&B. They never once let me down, but I know many who had different experiences. My experience of Lynx, apart from some avionics, ended 40 years ago. It had a poor reputation for some...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Feb 2024, 13:02
Replies: 73
Views: 14,547
Posted By tucumseh

When asked why 25 pax had been put in ZD576 in...

When asked why 25 pax had been put in ZD576 in 1994, MoD claimed it was because they wanted to discuss business en route.

Chinooks must have got louder since then.
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Feb 2024, 12:23
Replies: 33
Views: 15,095
Posted By tucumseh

CROWSNEST is only at Initial Operating...

CROWSNEST is only at Initial Operating Capability, so a bit of an unfair question!

Setting aside the differences between the relatively new HEW-784 and the decades-old Searchwater, and given the...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Feb 2024, 08:31
Replies: 33
Views: 15,095
Posted By tucumseh

To be fair to the RN, the cunning original plan...

To be fair to the RN, the cunning original plan was 108. Around half would role-fit Commando variants, to supplement, not replace, Sea King HC Mk4. All were to be ASW capable, which was the weak...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Feb 2024, 10:30
Replies: 33
Views: 15,095
Posted By tucumseh

Decades in the making, CROWSNEST has been given a...

Decades in the making, CROWSNEST has been given a 4-year life. The stopgap that was Sea King ASaC Mk7 got 16 years, was a much larger programme, delivered to time and cost, with much of its...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Feb 2024, 14:22
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

Regarding the papers being held back for 100...

Regarding the papers being held back for 100 years (or is it 50?), the obvious question is – what papers?

It must be remembered that Lord Philip had to resort to asking campaigners if they could...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Feb 2024, 08:30
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

Strange as it may seem, I'm with the MAA on this....

Strange as it may seem, I'm with the MAA on this.

After all, half a dozen reports saying the Chinook Mk2 isn't airworthy, and a mandated directive not to fly it, can't be 'accidentally' ignored.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2024, 09:05
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
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: 39,057
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: 39,057
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, 15:24
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

Quite right, and all of the above is mentioned...

Quite right, and all of the above is mentioned and explained in the books.

It boils down to Induction Build Standard. That is for the Service to determine, and agree with the project office, and...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2024, 10:18
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

The biggest cock-up was the FADEC procurement...

The biggest cock-up was the FADEC procurement strategy in the late 80s. Breached every known rule going. When the RAF's Training Development Team ('train the trainers') visited Boeing in 1992/3...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2024, 09:26
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
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: 39,057
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, 15:02
Replies: 22
Views: 5,823
Posted By tucumseh

How many contracts...? Very many I'm afraid. But...

How many contracts...? Very many I'm afraid. But you have to realise that companies dare not complain too hard about poor contracts, less they be blacklisted. I've seen that many times. They'll...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Feb 2024, 08:56
Replies: 22
Views: 5,823
Posted By tucumseh

You can't separate 'requirements drift' and...

You can't separate 'requirements drift' and budgets. The requirement is stated by the customer, and it is for he to make adequate materiel and financial provision for any changes he makes. Not the...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Jan 2024, 11:04
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

The production company, Fine Point Films, is...

The production company, Fine Point Films, is based in Belfast. They make numerous excellent documentaries aimed at, mainly, Northern Ireland, and flog them to the BBC.

This was the umpteenth...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Jan 2024, 10:26
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

I've done attaining and maintaining airworthiness...

I've done attaining and maintaining airworthiness a lot more recently than continuing! I've always felt your career should work backwards through this sequence, but that's no longer MoD policy, and...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Jan 2024, 17:39
Replies: 117
Views: 39,057
Posted By tucumseh

If you haven't read any of the books its not...

If you haven't read any of the books its not inapt at all. It's a fair question.

I know you probably mean Wratten and Day, but CAS (Graydon) was also a reviewing officer. The biggest lie of them...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Jan 2024, 12:56
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

Thanks for that. As I suggested before, have a...

Thanks for that. As I suggested before, have a look at what an appointed Design Authority is required to do. It's far more than the accredited Aircraft Maintenance Organisation.

You have your...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Jan 2024, 05:27
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

No, it is not I who is 'giving a compelling...

No, it is not I who is 'giving a compelling basis...' It is a combination of:

a. Martin-Baker (correctly) withdrawing support for old seat designs in legacy aircraft, negating the Safety Cases and...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jan 2024, 10:41
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

fdr It would have been nice of you to...

fdr

It would have been nice of you to acknowledge what the Approval Note does indeed say what I said it did. You might even speculate as to why the CAA didn't bother checking with MoD/RAF....
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jan 2024, 09:42
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

Read the AAIB report, Appendix L, Airworthiness...

Read the AAIB report, Appendix L, Airworthiness Approval Note No:26172, Issue 2, paragraph 3.

'Approval basis. ... The Design Authority now rests with the RAF, and support is supplied, if...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jan 2024, 02:58
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

Idle B (and Diff) It's not that I 'may very...

Idle B (and Diff)

It's not that I 'may very well be right', it's that I'm simply repeating the conclusions of he AAIB, which I agree with. And where they did not comment or explain, I'm relaying...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Jan 2024, 17:05
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

I'm afraid your claim as to serviceability is...

I'm afraid your claim as to serviceability is wrong.

The AAIB report confirmed it was neither airworthy, serviceable, nor fit for purpose. The pilot was not told this.

Regardless of any...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jan 2024, 14:23
Replies: 1,144
Views: 615,907
Posted By tucumseh

Regarding the AAIB report, while it was certainly...

Regarding the AAIB report, while it was certainly poor in some areas, it was infinitely better than any MoD report, which tend to look only at the final act.

What interested me most was that it...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2024, 14:15
Replies: 28
Views: 9,809
Posted By tucumseh

To be honest, very often they don't have to try...

To be honest, very often they don't have to try hard or actually deceive, they just have to answer the exam questions, which usually aren't very good. One of the case studies in the book describes...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jan 2024, 07:21
Replies: 28
Views: 9,809
Posted By tucumseh

Gne, I think you'll recognise much of the book's...

Gne, I think you'll recognise much of the book's content. Half-day seminars instead of trade shows! AJAX - 1,200 requirements added to a 'COTS' job? And you expect time, cost and performance?
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Dec 2023, 09:48
Replies: 28
Views: 9,809
Posted By tucumseh

Good question. A Noble Anger is in many ways...

Good question.

A Noble Anger is in many ways a sequel to Red 5. They stand alone, but having read Red 5 you'll then appreciate the scale of recurrence.

Their Greatest Disgrace is about the...
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