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22nd May 2023

Post reblogged from No Blogging Allowed with 37 notes

flakmaniak:

official-kircheis:

hmm fighter jets need like 15-25 maintenance man-hours per flight hour…wonder what the number is for passenger airliners… must be much lower because sure you can put several maintainers on it per wall clock hour, but if it’s not in the air it’s not making money.

There should be a romantic drama about a US air force pilot, and one of the mechanics responsible for maintaining their plane…

Airbus says the maintenance checks for the a220 take 10-15 man-hours per 850 flight hours, and what seems like at least 1600 man-hours per 8500 flight hours, but that’s not maintenance, just inspection, if they find “this part needs to be fixed or replaced” I have no idea how long that takes, or for any standard servicing they perform at X hours.

  1. kontextmaschine reblogged this from flakmaniak and added:
    Airbus says the maintenance checks for the a220 take 10-15 man-hours per 850 flight hours, and what seems like at least...
  2. selfmaderibcageman said: @official-kircheis yeah… 18 is probably really the low end then for fighters. The B isnt for carriers, the C is. B is on amphib. assault ships and “helicopter destroyers”. They definitely both have maintenance challenges (CATOBAR and STOVL), but carriers/AAS’ are huge, so I bet its not as bad as it sounds. They have their own machine shops
  3. official-kircheis reblogged this from caesarsaladinn and added:
    realising she fucked the pilot behind your back because you find foreign fluids during pre-flight checks...
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  6. official-kircheis said: @selfmaderibcageman I saw 18 mentioned for F-16s, I know the stealth planes are much higher. the fan on the F-35B must suck ass for maintenance, too. anything carrier for the gear too…
  7. caesarsaladinn reblogged this from official-kircheis and added:
    ah, my bad, so it's the third side of the pilot-mechanic-plane romantic triangle
  8. gpuzzle reblogged this from caesarsaladinn and added:
    something something infinite monkeys with typewriters
  9. selfmaderibcageman said: Military pilots love to overg their planes, airliners almost never get overg’d. Plus, the planes with swing wings/stealth composites are probably skewing that average number up a lot. I also wonder if that’s counting like, time spent fixing targeting pods etc.
  10. selfmaderibcageman reblogged this from flakmaniak and added:
    The mechanics are too busy fucking the plane.
  11. flakmaniak reblogged this from official-kircheis and added:
    There should be a romantic drama about a US air force pilot, and one of the mechanics responsible for maintaining their...
  12. official-kircheis said: @binary-bluejay 245 A380s, 190 or so F-22s… something like 11k A-320s (with variants) and 4.5k F-16s. I think it’s that fighter jets have a lot of complex systems airliners don’t, and they’re put through much more stressful use. you don’t even do 1g in a 747.