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re: Aircraft maintenance vets: What aircraft have you worked and which is your favorite?
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:15 pm to SadSouthernBuck
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:15 pm to SadSouthernBuck
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benefits of night crew I guess. Minimal SNCO's and zero officers!
It's still like that for the most part.
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Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:16 pm to Devil_doge
I can't remember what the final thing was that MAG put a stop to it. I wanna say it was when 469 first stood up, and in the old 775 hanger, flight line took the shop that had the overhead crane in it. They duct taped a nug to a roll chair and hooked him up to the hoist. Crazy thing I'm pretty sure my cnatt instructors we're the ones who went down for that.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:20 pm to momentoftruth87
Jesus 
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:20 pm to Devil_doge
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It's still like that for the most part
Loved working nights. Except for when I would meet the day crew early show at 0630.
And mid-rats were the best.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:21 pm to Devil_doge
I was pretty nice though to nugs though.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:24 pm to SadSouthernBuck
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Loved working nights. Except for when I would meet the day crew early show at 0630.
And mid-rats were the best.
This! Yep hated being there swapping hands, but mid rats were awesome. I remember in Iraq in AQ, mid rats were the shite. Only time we (flight liners) got to go. Of course we'd make food runs to eribertos state side.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:26 pm to SadSouthernBuck
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Loved working nights.
Nights were absolutely skate at the MALS. Only 3 or 4 work centers working and everyone wore civies.
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mid-rats were the best
Only time the chow was actually good.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:30 pm to Devil_doge
Speaking of MALS, my boss on recruiting was originally a MALS 39 T700 mech/test cell. (sry already forgot all the MAL's shop #'s.
Still remember wuc codes though
Ah-1w engine monopod was 29H1F10 - used it on Mafs for my Corrosion HOURS
Still remember wuc codes though
Ah-1w engine monopod was 29H1F10 - used it on Mafs for my Corrosion HOURS
This post was edited on 7/2/17 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:33 pm to momentoftruth87
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Ah-1w engine monopod was 29H1F10 - used it on Mafs for my Corrosion HOURS
I still remember P/Ns like the back of my hand.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:38 pm to Devil_doge
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I still remember P/Ns like the back of my hand.
Don't remover any P/N's but this is burned into my brain:
11-1-A-799. Could not duplicate gripe.
Well that and the fricking "sweepers, sweepers. Man your brooms" bs that would play every night afloat.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:39 pm to SadSouthernBuck
Lmao! No defect.
Posted on 7/2/17 at 10:42 pm to SadSouthernBuck
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11-1-A-799. Could not duplicate gripe.
I loved doing that shite to the squadron.
Had one time where a squadron Y coded an item back to us and we A-799'd it back to them and they Y coded it back to us again. This went on for a week before the QAO and AMO stepped in. Ended up running 2 bird checks on other birds and the item ran fine. Turned out that something else was fricked up on their jet.
Posted on 7/3/17 at 1:31 am to Devil_doge
Didn't really care for any of the I level shops. One time they kept sending us this screwed up CSC(control converter) that would pop a 004 terminal code and we could never get it to clear. I swear that S/N had a 6 month history of the same gripe in different aircraft.
We had a stretch where they kept sending us bad bricks(memory units) too.
FLIR shop was always cool though, hung out with them every time I went to WTI in Yuma.
We had a stretch where they kept sending us bad bricks(memory units) too.
FLIR shop was always cool though, hung out with them every time I went to WTI in Yuma.
Posted on 7/3/17 at 2:05 am to cubsfan5150
EA18G.
Posted on 7/3/17 at 2:09 am to smash williams
Smash, were you an AT or AE?
Posted on 7/3/17 at 8:39 am to cubsfan5150
Was NDI/NDT for most my career
F-15 A,B and C's
F-111F
F-4G
T-33
QF-106,QF-100
C-130's various models
CF-18 (top of vertical stab after midair lightning strike... honeycomb throughout was fried/melted)
Best job was one time xray/ultrasonic inspection of SR-71 at Mildenhall AB
Worst was every eddy current inspection of C-130 pork chop fittings between inner and outer wings done from inner wing fuel cell the size of 1&1/2 coffins. Only way in was through a service panel that took 5 mins to squeeze in and out of. Definitely not a job for anyone remotely claustrophobic. Had to do all four corners top and bottom and would take several minutes to turn around in that space. Not to mention it was a fuel cell recently purged so smelled like chit the whole time you were in there
F-15 A,B and C's
F-111F
F-4G
T-33
QF-106,QF-100
C-130's various models
CF-18 (top of vertical stab after midair lightning strike... honeycomb throughout was fried/melted)
Best job was one time xray/ultrasonic inspection of SR-71 at Mildenhall AB
Worst was every eddy current inspection of C-130 pork chop fittings between inner and outer wings done from inner wing fuel cell the size of 1&1/2 coffins. Only way in was through a service panel that took 5 mins to squeeze in and out of. Definitely not a job for anyone remotely claustrophobic. Had to do all four corners top and bottom and would take several minutes to turn around in that space. Not to mention it was a fuel cell recently purged so smelled like chit the whole time you were in there
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 8:16 am
Posted on 7/3/17 at 8:47 am to cubsfan5150
Lots of vets in this thread. Thank you for your service. 
Posted on 7/3/17 at 9:36 am to AUTimbo
I know all about those... I was the guy that had to roll those cells back for you to get access.
Posted on 7/3/17 at 9:37 am to cubsfan5150
never worked on a jet but I've done my share of calling maintenance to work on my jet
Posted on 7/3/17 at 9:40 am to SadSouthernBuck
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keying the KY-58's were what I always dreaded
I am a certified "expert" on the KY-58 radios, attended "C" on it and the WSC-3
This post was edited on 7/3/17 at 10:20 am
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