How much of the welders time went to build and modify things at the whim of the Rig Manager and Chief Mechanic?
It has to be astoundingly good, or else planes will start falling out of the sky. The recent SWA incident could have easily been much worse.
X-ray and other NDT techniques are industry standard for aircraft maintenance. Itās 2018, there isnāt anything new or unusual about it.
Yeah the author got a bit melodramatic, so what, heās still got a point.
Happens every day at St. Maarten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlTNj6IWey4
Yes it reminded me of that.
I have been there a few times.
actually very little as it was a series of rigs and mods had to be approved in the office and then applied to all.
So you mean to tell me that things have changed from the good olā days when the Toolpusher was God and redesigned the rig to his fansy, only for the other Toolpusher to change it all on his hitch??
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I used to keep busy in my Class days on annual surveys, just looking for āmodificationsā that were detrimental to the structural well being of the Unit. . . .
No, but the implied demand that a truly safety driven organization would NDT every blade and disk before every flight or some other short interval is absurd.
At some point the very act of inspection imposes a threat to material and process reliability. The old adage of āinspect it until itās brokeā did not magicallly arise from someoneās imagination.
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The part that concerns me isnāt the blade, itās the containment failure. Thatās not supposed to happen, ever.
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