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Aviation History
1974
1974 - 1940.PDF
Minimum downtime/ maximum combat-readiness. That's cost-efe ttve. w^TSS?' That's the F-] Ease of maintenance with lower cost and less downtime is built into the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter. At the squadron level, about two years after delivery of the first operational aircraft to the Air Force, F-15 direct maintenance man-hour requirements will be no more than 11.3 hours per hour of flight. (The ratio ranges from 20 to 1 up to 40 to 1 for Eagle. current jet fighters.) Ground crews can change an engine in less than 30 minutes. (We've done it in 18 mih. 55 sec.) Costly man- hours are saved because engine-driven accessories— generators and pumps—are attached to the airframe, not the engine. Major avionics systems include in-flight fault isolation. Plug-in modules can be quickly replaced on the ramp. And spares in are reduced significant]' or components such as engines, stabilators and vertical tails are interchangeable, left and right. And many pumps, valves, and electrica ms do more than one job. Cutting downtime cuts costs... important, considering manpower costs represent 57% of every defense dollar. The versatile Eagle. It's what you'd expect from the team that created the Phantom.
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