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Jon
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 Posted: Apr 08, 2004 - 05:11 PM
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The tittle is self explanitory. But if you do not know what a hanger queen is, I will tell you. I'm sure most of our readers know that it is an aircraft that does not get much flying time because it is in the hanger with the ground crew scratching their heads trying to figure out why its not working.
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EriktheF16462
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Posted: Apr 08, 2004 - 04:32 PM
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Couple come to mind. Had a D hog at Luke that the 220 blew the aug off of that bugger was down for a long time because of structual damage. I crewed it and was a sad puppy at the time.
The other was a constant firing voltage to the gun firing lead even when you had your finger off the trigger. Turned out to be a bad clearing sol. on the gun itself. I heard this happened again here at Shaw not to long ago. My time with one had a well intentioned AFETS rep (not david) pull the wiring out of the GCU with out marking them. Spent hours with my hands over my head repining the cannon plug on that mess... |
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Posted: Apr 08, 2004 - 11:04 PM
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| Sometimes the hangar-queen status was self-inflicted..........the last unit I was in rotated a jet into the hangar on a monthly basis to be used as another spare parts asset. This doesn't qualify in the same sense as a jet that was so bad broke that it a very long time to fix, but every crewchief hated to see their jet go into the hangar when it was their turn in the rotation, when it had been flying good just the day before. |
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Posted: Apr 09, 2004 - 06:33 PM
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| That is too bad that still happens. The dark days of the '90s and not very many spares. Not much has improved on getting a proper level of spares??? |
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SwedgeII
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Posted: Apr 13, 2004 - 03:32 PM
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| Heck that is a NORMAL occurance!! instead of waiting for the part to come in, a day or so, you must K-Ball the part off a good aircraft, and that same aircraft keeps getting K-balled tell the end of the month then it must be quickly rebuilt with parts from anuther (New) K-ball aircraft. Lots of man power assets are used up doing this stupid tactic. Mainly because OPS is so impatient!! |
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FlipWilson
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Posted: Apr 16, 2004 - 05:56 AM
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CANN jet = 100+ pages in your 781A's...
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