US re -invents the OTR

[ivor toolbox]

As in Operational Turnround......

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/06/13/with-f-22-stealth-fighters-running-out-the-us-air-force-got-desperate/amp/

Ttfn

[Jobza Guddun]

We were doing Engine Running Crew Changes and Hot Refuelling on the GR Force from 2005. Certainly reduced the number of crew-in snags, and improved sortie rates.

[ivor toolbox]

And some of us were doing it on older types, well before then...

Ttfn

[MPN11]

Engines running crew change was SOP on the Varsity line at Strubby in the 60s. "Keep those students rolling".

[Herod]

And rotary from at least '66

[Paying Guest]

And rotary from at least '66
....and F4s in the 70s and 80s

[Doctor Cruces]

RNEFTS did them on Bulldogs at Topcliffe in the seventies.

[Beancountercymru]

Cadets always did them on Chipmunks....

[Pontius Navigator]

I ran a Nimrod trial in the 70s with two aircraft. One of the two managed 60 hours of cyclic ops though the engines were shut down all the kit was left on, a flt engineer remained on board until the next crew arrived. Torpedoes and NDB were replenished as required.

Apart from some operational and engineering procedures what we learnt was the aircraft got bloody hot.