Man I have worked on over half the "boxes" in this photo.
But this must be some type of updated B anyone know?
Posted on 05/24/2005 2:42:08 PM PDT by pabianice
Subject: P-3 Rework Facility raided by INS
Here is an interesting news bit:
>>> Nine workers who serviced U.S. Navy planes at Winston-Salem airport were arrested Tuesday on alleged immigration violations.
Reports say agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement office made the arrests at Aerospace Manufacturing, Incorporated. They believe all those arrested were working illegally in the United States.
The "Operation Shield America" raid at Smith-Reynolds Airport is aimed at finding illegal aliens doing work for the Pentagon.
Reports also said that those arrested were working on P-3 Orions - survelliance planes known as "submarine killers."
The suspects are in the Forsyth County Jail, and may be deported to their home countries in the United Kingdom later this week.
The arrests come two months after federal authorities arrested 27 workers at the Piedmont/Triad International Airport in Greensboro for using counterfeit documents.
Officials at Aerospace Manufacturing could not be reached late Tuesday. >>>
We have canceled the contract with AMI and are in the process of getting the three P-3s (two active, 1 reserve) that are at AMI in a flyable status. This is going to shift the SSI/ESSI schedule around until we find another contractor.
On a personal note, I had a bad feeling about this company when we send our first plane to it. No POCs, Google brought up nothing and the guy we talked to could barely speak english and had some weird foreign name (we just called him Abu). A few weeks ago we got a phonecall from 'upstairs' suspending induction of aircraft to AMI until further notice.
Fritz
P-3/C-130 ResTYCOM
LOL :) There is no such thing as "freetrade" :P
Accept the fact that Rove & Bush & Co. value the hispanic vote more than YOUR vote.
Get over it.
ping
This could take 30 years, since there are many thousands of contractors, sub contractors doing work for DOD, Pentagon etc. Why not stop them at the borders first, and not only protect the Pentagon, but the rest of us too?
Ping
Just sabotaging the aircraft American saboteurs are too lazy
to sabotage....
THIS is something you were saying for a while.
There were illegals working at Newark airport before 9/11. Then we had private security companies that didn't do background checks on their employees.
Yet the Liberals attempt to blame everything on President Bush.
This nation is in such deep deep SH@T we will be lucky to survive the next decade.
These apparently muslim brits ("we call him abu"), working in concert with our enemies the chicoms (who have submarines and a few nukes that MIGHT work), have very likely sabotaged our technology, enabling our enemies the red chinese, to attack our aircraft carriers that are currently defending japan, taiwan, s. korea.
they tried for treason.
along with their collaborators in the company who helped them get jobs here.
Of course.
Man I have worked on over half the "boxes" in this photo.
But this must be some type of updated B anyone know?
like I said here:
PROPOSED BASE CLOSINGS TO REVEAL LOSS OF INDUSTRY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408916/posts?page=20#20
Red dawn??
Panama’s President Ignoring Chinese Smuggling
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/22/100034
Chinese Enter U.S. Through Virgin Islands
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/10/214414
Gee let's make it easy for them. Let put all our egg in one basket /s
Roger that!
The B-TACNAVMOD ("Super-B"), introduced in 1984; retired in 1991 when the Reserves got the P-3C Update II.
Ahh ok Thanks!
On active I was in P-3 update II But did a over year & a half TAD to AIMD at Moffitt.Where I fix a lot of A & B equipment. And every now and then. Would get a box
that worked on the bench but not the aircraft. So I’d walk across the hanger to test it in the plane. Most of that top row were my babies. ( that should tell you my rate)
So when I went into the reserves I may have been the new guy from Cs. But I knew the Bs better than some of the old hands.
But in 83 had a conflict with my job and drills ( I was working out in the middle of no place testing a mobile jamming system) And went inactive. After I finished they wanted me to shave off my beard. And I said I’ll think about it. that was 20 years ago.
So I never got to see a updated B.
Was part of the upgrade removing the pneumatic system?
Back in the late 80s I was noseing around a surplus place. And came across a pallet of launchers for Mk 25 smokes. And air compressors off the Bs.
Should have got one. Would have made a great cannon!
Since I was the only one who fixed them at the time. I had to come in to repair one, one weekend. Being that it was a nice day. I rolled the test stand outside to the parking lot
(you didn’t want to fire it inside) got it all working.
Then got the great idea of launching a soda can. I was the only one there, the parking lot only had one other car. And that was way down at the other end. So I finished my Coke, pushed it down the barrel, And Charge up to Unload ( the lowest setting) And fired.
Now the test barrel has holes drilled all along it to keep recoil down. And still shot it right at the duty officers Porch, (I wasn’t aiming at it, the thing curved in flight) It just fell short of it. Not only did it do a 400+ yard shot. it flattened the can like you drove a truck over it.
I decided not to try the 200 Kt, setting LOL!
Had allot of fun fixing those things.
Anyway if they did pull the pneumatics. How did they launch Sonobuoys? Go to a CAD type launcher like on the Cs?
Brother. How did they managed to fool their way into the system, if their work involved anything more sophisticated than scrubbing the craft clean? Isn't there supposed to be a paper trail on this kind of training?
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