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2013-06-13 Science & Technology

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Posted by Frozen Al 2013-06-13 12:12|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This thing represents the triumph of aspiration over moderation in engineering. It is an aviation analogy to the Chrysler building, Fallingwater, or the Ford Mustang.

Americans should be proud that their notoriously timid civil servants held steady on this program for DECADES in order to deliver something extra-ordinary.

Posted by rammer 2013-06-13 21:29|| 2013-06-13 21:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't know if I agree about the part in the Article that the cost of the machine may fall as the maintainers learn how to fix it......that paints Marine Aviation as a bunch of dumb grunts (no pun intended) but perhaps the author meant that as the aircraft matures and more data becomes available, the service life of critical items can be extended; the USN started with a 500 hour high time for the J-52 and through alanysis and planned increments, took the life up to 1000 before the Intruder was retired Now modular component time tracking ( or event/cycles) means that a critical item could last forever, as long as the individual pieses were replaced. This gets way deep in the weeeds of stats and a robust PM system.
For the record, the USMC airdales I worked with were top notch, didn't matter if they were rotor heads or fixed wingers.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2013-06-13 23:05|| 2013-06-13 23:05|| Front Page Top

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