I wounder what they define as a very-high-time-aircraft. The trainer PA28 at our flight club has god nearly 9000 hours on it. That's pretty high in my eyes, but I don't know.
for this current problem that you posted about We had to go and inspect the bolts on the gimble rings real quick check to see if they had and signs of movement and if they were within specs.
If they were good we signed off our paper work and it was annotated that the check was done on the component card of the swashplates.
If the swashplate was bad we removed it, I want to say we had 2 or 3 of them that were bad and needed to be replaced easy fix as long as we have parts in supply LOL.
we had to do a 10 minute check on the swashplate gimble bolts thats it, we had a bad swashplate when I was in Iraq back in 2008 but one of my marines found it on a daily inspection and we changed the swashplate.
we were not grounded inspect sign off mafs and were good.
Thank you very much for posting a comment. Our source on the grounding was the DoD. Are you saying that because you'd already taken care of business it was just paperwork to get flying again?
I wounder what they define as a very-high-time-aircraft. The trainer PA28 at our flight club has god nearly 9000 hours on it. That's pretty high in my eyes, but I don't know.
Tjita1 7 months ago
this thing should never have been built what a total waste of money . an accident waiting to happen
O7ROADKING 11 months ago
What are they going to do with all those other helicopters? Sell it to Iraq or something?
rasmasyean 2 years ago
The V-22 Osprey is replacing end of life aircraft, not freeing up inventory to sell as far as I know.
aerospacenews 2 years ago
Why don't they just weld the bolts and then cut them off if they need to remove it later?
Anyways, what's with that guy in the beginning? Was he warming his hands with the engine exhaust?
rasmasyean 2 years ago
I don't think that is very practical. The shot you refer to is I believe the crewmember attaching a grounding strap/line, not warming his hands.
aerospacenews 2 years ago
@0:37 he's not doing anything with a strap.
rasmasyean 2 years ago
@rasmasyean the guys drying his frickin hands alright, not that thats a bad thing.
wildwindsca 2 years ago
Should have been killed 30years and $60 BILLION ago.
worldsailor128 2 years ago
What makes you say that? I for one don't agree with you.
aerospacenews 2 years ago
for this current problem that you posted about We had to go and inspect the bolts on the gimble rings real quick check to see if they had and signs of movement and if they were within specs.
If they were good we signed off our paper work and it was annotated that the check was done on the component card of the swashplates.
If the swashplate was bad we removed it, I want to say we had 2 or 3 of them that were bad and needed to be replaced easy fix as long as we have parts in supply LOL.
v22crewchief 2 years ago
we had to do a 10 minute check on the swashplate gimble bolts thats it, we had a bad swashplate when I was in Iraq back in 2008 but one of my marines found it on a daily inspection and we changed the swashplate.
we were not grounded inspect sign off mafs and were good.
v22crewchief 2 years ago
Thank you very much for posting a comment. Our source on the grounding was the DoD. Are you saying that because you'd already taken care of business it was just paperwork to get flying again?
aerospacenews 2 years ago
It wasn't even grounded for a day. haha
speedsun20 2 years ago