as a pilot I appreciate the hard working maintainers... please keep up the hard work. I depend on you to do it right and not cut corners. Hopefully your leadership has your back!
As a crew chief of Tankers, I have told every crew member that has flown on my aircraft. It's not my job to make the aircraft fly, It's my job to make sure if the aircraft flies it is as safe as I could get it to my knowledge.
Uhh.. the plane is over 60 yrs old so it isn't a shock it is showing it's age, especially with the amt of flying hrs it has on a yearly basis. When I flew on it in the 80's part of my preflight was to check the wing crack detector to make sure no cracks had been found. I don't know if the plane will last another 30 yrs but the AF will do everything it can to make sure it does.
Vietnamese airplane!? Several upgrades!? An outdated aircraft but can still be used because of upgrades, but one day it will be decommissioned when there will be a new technology to build a new refuelling plane
@@tomking1890 Yup this is old news, like even when posted in 2019 old news. There was a TCTO for an OTI back in either 2016 or 2017 for the trunnion caps to prevent this kind of failure. It's also why we have iso inspections on these aircraft, because not all of the OTI inspectors always catch these things, which is what I'm guessing is what happened here. It's nothing new. The reason the thing got news attention probably is because the local journos wanted a military story and depot guys were flown in.
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as a pilot I appreciate the hard working maintainers... please keep up the hard work. I depend on you to do it right and not cut corners. Hopefully your leadership has your back!
We maintainers do not cut corners and always gives you A mission ready aircraft
As a crew chief of Tankers, I have told every crew member that has flown on my aircraft. It's not my job to make the aircraft fly, It's my job to make sure if the aircraft flies it is as safe as I could get it to my knowledge.
Good catch, maintenance!!!
My dad worked on the autopilot of KC135 and RC135 and B-52.
we found one in tech school. we thought the teachers did it on purpose. Called it a cracked trunnion
Trunnion support common to the beaver tail.
Uhh.. the plane is over 60 yrs old so it isn't a shock it is showing it's age, especially with the amt of flying hrs it has on a yearly basis. When I flew on it in the 80's part of my preflight was to check the wing crack detector to make sure no cracks had been found. I don't know if the plane will last another 30 yrs but the AF will do everything it can to make sure it does.
Yeah awacs engineers gave us a waiver for those
The military might as well upgrade their fleet to newer aircraft since airlines can do it.
Send it!
Love the tool crib 2000! Lol
So nice LOL. I remember using chits to get my tools out. Never lost any.
Cold-War era.
Vietnamese airplane!? Several upgrades!? An outdated aircraft but can still be used because of upgrades, but one day it will be decommissioned when there will be a new technology to build a new refuelling plane
I worked on these in 1976'
You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do
This should not be on TH-cam. This video will save our adversary time to. Folks we got to stop aiding the enemy.
You have been watching to much TV.
Lol wtf
@@tomking1890 Yup this is old news, like even when posted in 2019 old news. There was a TCTO for an OTI back in either 2016 or 2017 for the trunnion caps to prevent this kind of failure. It's also why we have iso inspections on these aircraft, because not all of the OTI inspectors always catch these things, which is what I'm guessing is what happened here.
It's nothing new. The reason the thing got news attention probably is because the local journos wanted a military story and depot guys were flown in.
Old place. KC46 is crap.