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EK-17U Tanker Aircraft

#21 Grastens 7

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Posted 03 July 2008 - 12:52 AM

QUOTE (Excalibur @ Jul 2 2008, 04:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I never said they didn't exist. I said they were horrible designs. I work on 10s, I know. The number 2 engine is everyone's worst enemy. An engine change should not take a week.

My mistake; I didn't know you worked on them. I know you did not say they didn't exist; I just didn't know why you thought they were a bad idea at first.

Really? 1 week? Is that any more time than it takes to maintain a KC-135? (I mean, they're getting old...)

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Posted 03 July 2008 - 08:29 PM

Age has some bearing on maintenance, but just because something is old doesn't mean it's hard to take care off. The older craft in the fleet are simpler designs and have long, LONG established methods of going about them. Some stuff is designed more with maintenance in mind.

#23 Grastens 7

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Posted 04 July 2008 - 01:59 PM

That is true. Aren't the KC-135s being phased out of the USAF, though?

#24 Guest_Excalibur_*

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Posted 07 July 2008 - 09:49 PM

Not until the 45 is available in large numbers, no.

#25 Guest_Fixer_*

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Posted 02 September 2008 - 04:37 PM

Article Checked.

#26 Whiskers

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Posted 23 October 2011 - 04:42 AM

Globmaster pics
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ek-17u
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c-17 normal* (not 5th engine*)

Flying
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missle alert
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Drestroyed
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not c-17b* (with 5th engine) photos
wait

thats all

the aces of ac3