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Huey

gatordev said:
First up, I know we're all just shooting the breeze here, but...



Raising the BS flag here. We have the same engines, and if someone takes the time to get up there w/ a scrubber and some B&B, it goes away. I've scrubbed my fair share of gray.

As for survivability...well that's a MUCH better answer. I mean who's going to argue "it gives us better deceptive colors and breaks up the lines" w/ a Marine?

Again, all in effect.
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When did they approve B&B as a cleaner for painted surfaces? We did that getting ready for a corrosion inspection once and got burned.
 
I'm sad to say that it's been long enough that I can't remember all the why's and how's. Crap, I can't even remember the damn name for the corrosion bible now (EDIT, just remembered, the -509). Perhaps I'm remembering the circumstances wrong, but I thought we were using the 4 thousand containers of B&B the ship bought for us, and I thought it was legal. I do vaguely remember something like this coming up, but it's all fading away. I also thought I held my Chief pretty accountable to that sort of stuff (and he was most certainly willing), but now you've got me wondering.

The best part of an aircraft wash was the Porta-foamer. There's nothing more amusing than taking a 5 foot rod and shooting a big wad of foam all over the plane...and then letting out a contented sigh.
 
14 days are for homos. I'm all about 28 days - same great wash, but a little extra CC on top. Get your scrubbers out!

Anyway, if you managed to clean all that crap off the tailboom, then you might see all the bucking rivets, and that would lead to "unscheduled maintenance."

Ok I found some pictures of a clean tailboom on an old Huey, just for the naysayers:

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sar002.jpg

sar018.jpg

edit: Now that I think about it, I think maybe it was only cleaned because civilians came out and put the strakes on the tailboom (which would be why the strakes aren't painted in that picture).

dbledit: Or maybe it was because in Yuma we did our own 14 days (no contractors), and Yuma SAR maintainers are probably like the Force Recon of the Marine Aviation community :D
 
HueyCobra8151 said:
dbledit: Or maybe it was because in Yuma we did our own 14 days (no contractors), and Yuma SAR maintainers are probably like the Force Recon of the Marine Aviation community :D
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So you shave your legs, highlight your hair and wear more nomex than any man should?

And by the way that Huey looks like a U-Haul truck (smiles simulated)
 
the advantage of the old orange and white is when you zip down the beach low and slow checking out chicks the beachgoers think you are the coast guard and don't complain when the whop whop whop drowns out their conversations for a couple minutes.
 
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