Repair
In fact we are so good at repairing the Seaking, which is an excellent aircraft, that the site that repairs ours just won a huge contract to repair several foreign governments Sea Kings.
It tends to be the lack of commitment to the helicopter itself. Instead of spending the money and rebuilding it from airframe up, like the foreign govs are going to do in Canada, the cdn gov/forces only puts peicemeal new parts in our Sea kings and though inspection and maintenance is good some microfractures cannot be detected and will fail. Rebuild from ground up and problem solved for a fraction of the cost of new helos that have to pay for all the design and prototype and assembly line setup on top of making a profit per unit.
They rebuild the Chinooks from airframe up and they soldier on with us and the US and other countries and they have two rotors and are as old as the Sea King.
Sean
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