Thread by @steffanwatkins

🇨🇦 I've heard riffs on "when the planes are not in for repairs, which is often." in #cndpoli news before, but I've never seen any data to substantiate, or gov't reports which identify, higher than normal maintenance for the #RCAF CC-150 Polaris fleet.

Is there evidence?

Well,

https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1339697779002773509

Data exists that can be used to substantiate, or refute, the claim, using open source flight history. For my part, I can tell you the planes are in the air very regularly, and there is no sign of them being sidelined for unscheduled extended periods. (except the "mishap"; 15001)

What's that? You want to see it for yourself? Well, okay.

Check the below embeded link daily for a few years and get back to me.

https://twitter.com/steffanwatkins/status/1337482592665415680?s=20

Don't worry, I'm more than happy to rake the @RCAF_ARC over the coals when they're in the wrong, but I think the Canadian news media owes #RCAF #8Wing #437SQN at #CFBTrenton, who maintain the CC-150 fleet of aircraft, an apology; they're doing a great job.

For their exemplary work, #437SQN was given a unit commendation by @CDS_Canada_CEMD 1wk ago; I don't know that Gen Vance is in a habit of giving out undeserved praise.

Shouldn't we have evidence of an abundance of unscheduled maintenance issues? We don't.

https://twitter.com/CDS_Canada_CEMD/status/1337151795542581249?s=20

I found this article from 2019-12-04, a year ago, but I don't know what the follow up was or how quickly it was flying again. Probably a few days. That's pretty good, isn't it?

cbc.ca/news/politics/…