Originally Posted by
JulieAndrews
Not sure there is anything about the Black Hawk that the folk at Ace Aeronautics don’t know?
I imagine article was referring to the composite elements of 60M not reaching their 8000-hr life limit?
I can’t imagine that they were mis-quoted by the press :-)
My quote was from their website, not the press. HUMS looks at dynamic components, and (amongst other things) detects early deterioration and anomalies. Phased maintenance breaks up large tasks into smaller ones, that can be done in shorter periods, so rather than being offline for a few weeks in one go, an airframe can be down for a day or so at a time more frequently. Neither have any bearing on ultimate component life.