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Post by bdcarrillo on Mar 20, 2017 20:36:35 GMT
Of course, aircraft don't carry maintenance crews on board. Not meaning to nitpick, but just wanted to point out that most heavy military aircraft do carry maintenance crew on board when they aren't doing a local mission. I've seen up to three individuals travel with a single aircraft before, but one was usually in training or a specialist. Very common for helicopters that have room also. Those maintainers or flight engineers are very limited in what they can actually do unless the plane or destination has CTKs. My comment was aimed at long-term maintenance, like subs have. I can amend what you quoted with "planes don't carry an avionics guy, hydro troop, engine backshop bubba, or sheet metals tech"
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Falcon256
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Post by Falcon256 on Mar 20, 2017 22:33:34 GMT
Not meaning to nitpick, but just wanted to point out that most heavy military aircraft do carry maintenance crew on board when they aren't doing a local mission. I've seen up to three individuals travel with a single aircraft before, but one was usually in training or a specialist. Very common for helicopters that have room also. Those maintainers or flight engineers are very limited in what they can actually do unless the plane or destination has CTKs. My comment was aimed at long-term maintenance, like subs have. I can amend what you quoted with "planes don't carry an avionics guy, hydro troop, engine backshop bubba, or sheet metals tech" True point, we aren't going to be doing an A check or C check with a TDY box alone. At least on a spacecraft it is likely we can fabricate most tools that we may need. I'm having images of astronauts with PT belts.
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Post by bdcarrillo on Mar 21, 2017 10:53:14 GMT
Anecdote about fabrication...
I was absolutely blown away to see a full size metal lathe on board a sub at Seawolf Park. It was in the engine room. Unfortunately there wasn't any info about what they might have routinely used it for.
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Bicycle type beacon lights might be more effective than disco belts.
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Post by argonbalt on Apr 1, 2017 19:39:04 GMT
Not meaning to nitpick, but just wanted to point out that most heavy military aircraft do carry maintenance crew on board when they aren't doing a local mission. I've seen up to three individuals travel with a single aircraft before, but one was usually in training or a specialist. Very common for helicopters that have room also. Those maintainers or flight engineers are very limited in what they can actually do unless the plane or destination has CTKs. My comment was aimed at long-term maintenance, like subs have. I can amend what you quoted with "planes don't carry an avionics guy, hydro troop, engine backshop bubba, or sheet metals tech" We should also consider that relatively speaking space craft are pretty damn privileged in that unlike virtually all modern combat vehicles which require constant engine functions to be "on mission"(keep the plane flying/sub moving/tank driving), outside of our reactors there might be days or even months of down time to work on parts and fixes/upgrades.
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