Posted on 06/04/2018 4:01:06 PM PDT by caww
The service AND 'the White House' came to the conclusion that nixing the new units to cool food on the jet makes “prudent fiscal sense,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson wrote in a letter to Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who sits on the Armed Services Committee.
Even with the understanding that the Air Force One mission brings with it unique requirements and challenges, a $24 million sole-source contract just didn’t pass the smell test.”....“Clearly, the Air Force is making the right decision cancel the previously announced 'sole-source contract' and 'hit restart' on this process,”
Boeing was awarded the contract to replace the aging refrigerators but has been notified of the cancellation, according to Wilson.
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And you'd be rejected and shown the door for showing up with that crap that could never be rendered airworthy. That $24 million probably is excessive ... but there's middle ground between that stupidity and yours.
Yeah, I know. Satire. Just joking. Lighten up, Francis.
Whatever.
How much would mil standard GE turbines run (these are not commercial jet type power iirc)? One refrigerator (or several) on one aircraft for 12 million of that 400 MM?
Specs required. Coolant used? compressor mil-spec? Etc.
You have to figure they are not normal AC, but are a 400hz system.
-PJ
Saying that, how is that even possible, $24 mil. I remember in the 70’s a phantom with some bad ass GE engines was only bringing $3.5 mil.
If that don't frost your hot dog...lol...
Can get a jumbo yeti and bags of ice.
Can get yeti equals for half.
That’s how working people roll.
Plenty of “cold” available for free at 35,000 feet ,, a simple heat exchanger arrangement isn’t hard to design or manufacture. A simple arrangement where cold is pulled off the skin of the aircraft with recirculating antifreeze could be easily built similar to the closed systems used on steel hulled diesel boats for engine cooling... IF they didn’t want to run it electrically... and B747’s have plenty of APU power available. The biggest expense I see is probably the disassembly of existing equipment and “build in place” aspect of the job if that is necessary...
Better yet, just eat MREs. No fridge required.
Whoever submitted the $24 million “bid” should be charged with fraud. That’ll put a stop to excessive overcharging, real quick.
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somebody is bummed that they lost a BIG commission.
LOL.
Whats an ice maqchine ?
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Ya know there are times when it’s senseless to go in circles....if you cannot see the differences between a super market frigeration unit and Airforce one...then it’s a senseless cause continuing this. Just the fact alone one is grounded and the other is airbirne should have rang a bell.
I doubt it. The engineering design team (10 people) has a loaded rate of over 1 million per year. The you have to have special tool to build the prototypes. I would be surprised if it could be done for under 3 million.
As I said, they cannot take a fridge off the shelf and upgrade it, the GVT makes them build from the ground up.
Notice that this was a separate contract which means increased overhead providing design reviews and reports to the GVT. They can’t just build a fridge and deliver it, the GVT will have at least 3 major design reviews. All that overhead costs.
Clearly you know how things work. You perfectly describe the pencil whipping I endured.
Hillbilly solutions are often the most elegant and practical, lol.
Awwww, some congress critter is out of their kickback.
Sheep specs?
If it is going on an aircraft, chances are every part down to the last screw will be designed, inspected, re-inspected X 9, and certified. And it will be designed to survive a crash that kills everyone on board.
It will be like no one had ever built a refrigerator before.
Because that is how it is done in aerospace.
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