Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Well tonight’s episode, what can I say…. 2 Typhoons near bad guys land and one gets a missile launch warning, so they sit there trying to fault diagnose the spurious warning, my first thought was, what if the warning is correct and the jet without it was the one at fault. That didn’t appear to have come into the thought process.
Speed drivers to de-panel the slats, have the Airforce not woken up to cordless electric screwdrivers or air driven, yes I understand the need for manual tooling in a war situation where you might have an EMP or lack of power but come on, join the 21st century.
Electronic slats… ok I admit there is good reasons for them, but. the Me 109 and some Rallly aircraft had leading edge slats that were manual and “sucked” themselves out when required.
because they aint on base maintenance with compressors to hand? Electric cordless tools have always been banned in RAFas not flame proof. Us civvys are gash. I tend to use a speedy on the line as cordless drills can chew up screws I have no replacements for. Surprised the slat issue wasn't told by the aircrafts maint computer. Mis torque is usually something jamming. But AS1 blogs is not such a great techie after all.