By: 12jaguar - 24th February 2009 at 07:57
If they were unexpectedly retired early with no FI on the wings, how would they have carried on to their planned retirement date?:)
John.
Perhaps a bit hasty with my quote:o
There was very little FI left on the wings and the FI had to be carefully husbanded. We spent a lot (and I mean a lot:eek:) of money developing a NDT technique to monitor one particular area of the rear wing skin and spar structure which was manufactured with a concession, ie the edge distance to one fastener was too low. This was an area where the critical crack length was 0.5mm after that the wing could unzip. Basically they were flying by inspection and it was an onerous one at that.
Hope that clarifies things a bit.
John
By: FMK.6JOHN - 23rd February 2009 at 17:45
thanks for posting the pics, lots of big grins here!:D:D:D
No flying RAF Jags unfortunately, absolutely no FI left on the wings!
John
If they were unexpectedly retired early with no FI on the wings, how would they have carried on to their planned retirement date?:)
John.
By: 12jaguar - 23rd February 2009 at 17:41
thanks for posting the pics, lots of big grins here!:D:D:D
No flying RAF Jags unfortunately, absolutely no FI left on the wings!
John
By: Peter - 23rd February 2009 at 17:22
would be neat to see them fly again but at least they keep them running!
By: Nashio966 - 23rd February 2009 at 17:15
crikey, so there are a considerable amount of them left still!!! i thought the idiots in grey suits had got rid of almost all of them
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