BBMF - grounding of aircraft
Just heard on the news that several aircraft including the Lancaster have been grounded because of mechanical (engine ) problems ,is this the end?
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Could be the beginning.
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It's in Introductions - is it duplicated elsewhere?
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Both showing in introductions when clicked on from the latest discussions heading on CT page this link
https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/
Both started at 8.27am today. The other thread has 2 posts from Tigerfish and Pippah45.
Sorry forgot to quote Tinwheeler post 😲
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Sadly, unlike other more efficient forum software, this set up doesn't allow that facility, TF.
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Latest news from Kent Today ,is that the Herne Bay Airshow is going ahead as planned.BUT ,,not with the original line up,as a defect/fault gas been discovered with the 'Merlin' engines.Spare aircraft from Biggin Hill are to be stand-in's,having the 'Griffon' engines.Sitting here in Herne Bay ,it all happens in front of my house on the seafront .Thousands of 'joe public' decending for the event.Hope there are no crashes ,like last years when a small aircraft lost power and had to ditch near the beach !! 
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Tricky enjoy. Would have loved to have joined you but other arrangements already in place. I do hope Joe public respect your property 😉. And that all flights are safe ones.
Edit went my usual way of logging in before commenting, click like on tricky's post, log in, taken to duplicate thread with 3 posts on it. Close that, go to latest activity page select this thread and read more and back to 11 posts 😤😤😤😤😤😤
One day one day 😂😂😂 mustn't rush these jobs 9 months so far and little in the way of change from day one and some that have changed is for the worse 😲😢
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Posted on 19/08/2017 12:38
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The latest clarification confirms my suspicion> A fault was discovered in some planetary gears in the Merlin Engine of a Hurricane aircraft owned and managed by the BBMF. Being the RAF, and their maintenance regime is maintained to such an impeccable standard, they immediately grounded all of their aircraft using the same engine. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that the fault may exist in other engines but their regime is so tight that they will not fly them again until all engines have been checked & cleared.There is no compulsion on other operators to follow suite. Neither is there any real likelihood of the fault being replicated in other engines. But the RAF just don't take any chances with their flagship historical flight!
These vintage aircraft will soon be in the air again! They are all maintained to a standard far exceeding that when they were new. Sadly nearly all of the accidents - worldwide, have been due to errors of judgement by the aircrew rather than faults in the aircraft themselves.
It really is quite ridiculous that when an operator decides to take a decision in line with their impeccable safety record, to temporarily withdraw from public exhibitions, that other people read into that decision all sorts of wild conclusions. Go back to my original post. (1) The issue was limited to one engine type. (2) There had been no accident. (3) The CAA had not taken any wider action. So why the sudden talk about grounding all other aircraft?
Vintage aircraft today are maintained to a level far exceeding that of the machines when they were first manufactured. Far from being worn out, they are today in far better condition than when they first flew in our defence. So why the thoughts of grounding them?
TF
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Everything went to plan (almost) lots of 'dead air' space between flight displays.But they did the best they could.No Lancaster but one Spitfire & one Hurrican.The 'Euro Fighter was awsom.Stars of the show were the "Red Arrows" of course.Good weather too helped.
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