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but on topic, Nimrod fleet total hours, sorry ncd - did you want black ops included, or just a meaningless estimate
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Well a full itinerary of everything they've ever done would be great but I suppose a guestimate of what that type of aircraft would have flown say from someone who may have worked for the RAF would have to do
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Therefore the risk factors were greater, and needed greater mitigation (which didn't appear to happen). If you know something is old and needs upgrading/fixing, it doesn't lessen the blame if this isn't done (and if you read the inquest reports, a lot of "known issues" are coming out of the woodwork).
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I agree, but just how much of a risk does it take before action (and therefore cost) needs to be taken. Just because something is an issue the risk could be seen as low enough that fixing it would be uneconomical. You cannot mitigate every risk, attempting to do so would mean that no project would ever get anywhere.
Where the lines of taking action are on what probability of risk, is another matter.
Ah the joys of risk management, not.
Edit: Oh and British Aerospace triumphs since 1956 (Iintroduction of the Vulcan, Maiden flight 1952) a,ongst others
Lightning
Harrier
A couple from my own personal field
RB211
Trent