Allegedly developed to improve Navy carrier based aircraft airframe lifetime...
Posted on 06/08/2015 11:29:41 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
The extent of corrosion damage on the U.S. military’s F/A-18 Hornet fleet is requiring more maintenance than expected, an admiral said.
The Navy and Marine Corps are flying the legacy fighter jets longer than planned — 10,000 flight hours, up from 6,000 flight hours — because of delays in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, according to Rear Adm. Michael Manazir, the service’s director of air warfare. As a result, the 1980s-era, twin-engine aircraft is experiencing a high degree of wear and tear, including corrosion.
“The corrosion impacts, I would say, caught us by surprise,” he said this week during a Navy and Marine Corps aviation conference on Capitol Hill. “When we opened them up and realized the extent of the corrosion damage, we realized we couldn’t just replace the parts we were going to replace. We had to put those airplanes aside.”
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But their mainstreaming homosexuals and transgenders in the military, and purging those in the officer corps that have problems with that for “failure to inspire confidence,” is going gangbusters!
Not to mention the efforts to by any g-d means necessary, pass women into Rangers and Special Forces.
Yes, because corrosion happens so fast!
Stress-related accelerated corrosion — common in metallurgy, by dislocations and grain-boundary in the cryatalline structure of high-alloy metal supporting components. Attack by salty-air halides??
Took them by surprise my ass. There needs to be some Squadron Commanders, Maintenance officers, and Maintenance Chiefs looking for a new line of work. Corrosion has always been an issue in the Navy and Marine Corps. This problem didn’t just suddenly appear out of thin air.
Allegedly developed to improve Navy carrier based aircraft airframe lifetime...
Having been in a Navy aircraft squadron I know that the search for corrosion on metal parts is an ongoing issue with ALL aircraft. If they didn’t find it at the squadron level, it is because they were not instructed to look where it was found.
Next thing we will hear is they have discovered water is wet.
That is great stuff, shame it is so difficult to find.
or that ocean water has salt in it.
another way of saying Unexpected
Exactly. It was not the CONCEPT of corrosion that surprised them. It is where it was and to what extent. Surprise! Engineers are not omnipotent when they design or write manuals.
That is a lot of extra fatigue and corrosion. Still, as long as the service life extension frees up money for military gender reassignments on demand, it's worth it in Obama's tiny little mind.
Hey, not fair! I was a Systems Maintenance Officer in Germany, and that was about the only thing NOT in my job description.
Worst effing job I had during my 8 years. Took all of the blame, without any of the authority necessary to get the job done.
Group Commander would randomly visit our tac park on Friday afternoons. Every time he visited, I was the only officer on site. After the third time that happened, the fecal matter really started rolling down the hill.
I coined a new acronym for vehicles that had multiple deficiencies: MFB - Mother F----r's Broke. Battalion Staff didn't see the efficacy, or the humor, of that acronym.
I know this particular issue. The corrosion is inside voids only opened at depot level. Probably never intended to be opened during lifespan of aircraft. The way the plane is constructed prevents the corrosion in those from being accessed the way it needs to be.
Corrosion X is available at Amazon.com.
Oh well, first things first.
From a DoD internal website:
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