An Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Garcia 12/09/2010 - "We had the misfortune of receiving some damage. However, we quickly found out the aircraft is very survivable. We weren't hit with anything very large, mostly small arms, and from RPGs, stuff like that but the holes that actually left were very…
By Olivier Azpitarte 11/30/2010 - Since the announcement by the French former Minister of Defence Hervé Morin about the start of withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan in 2011, the issue of the evaluation of Afghan security forces is more relevant than ever. Foremost among the concerns are the maintenance,…
An Interview with Cpl. Warshek and Sgt. Fante 11/28/2010 "[In Afghanistan,] the space issue was probably our major focus. If a rotor head were to go down, we didn't really have the space at I-level to fix that rotor head. We were working out of the vans. And for the…
An Interview With Lieutenant-Colonel Garcia 11/18/2010 - "This aircraft doesn’t have the capability to be broken down and put inside a C5 like the helicopters can. However, it does have the capability to be able to deploy itself."
An Interview With Colonel Arthur Tomassetti 11/18/2010 - "We can start building those maintainers that will have to go out and take care of these airplanes wherever they go. We expect to train about 100 pilots a year, here at Eglin, when we’re up and running. We expect to train…
An Interview With Armando Martinez 11/18/2010 - "There's more teardown on the F-16 to get the seat out. I'm not saying it's harder, it's just more time consuming. For combat you don't want to waste time in pulling the seat out. You have to be able to pull the seat…
The Air Force Tanker Decision: A ‘Fairer’ Way Forward By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the Air Force 11/17/2010 - The Air Force is confronting a conundrum that in 1998, the GAO called a mandatory replacement program for the aging tanker fleet. There have been two winners since that…
An Interview with General Art Cameron (Ret.) 11/06/2010 - "Aircraft operational capabilities have become evolutionary and revolutionary over the decades but, reliability and maintainability has not kept pace with the increased operational capabilities. The F-35, in many respects, is the first aircraft that has sustainment as an integral part of…
