Flush the sand.Now, more than ever, crew chiefs, daily inspections of your bird cannot be forgotten in the desert. Sand finds its way into every nook and cranny Noun 1. nook and cranny - something remote; "he explored every nook and cranny of science" nooks and crannies detail, item, point - an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" of your bird. Take care of sand problems now to keep your aircraft mission ready in the desert. Rushing 10-hour or 25-hour/14-day preventive maintenance The routine checking of hardware that is performed by a field engineer on a regularly scheduled basis. See remedial maintenance. preventive maintenance - (PM) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See provocative maintenance, scratch monkey. inspections and pre-flights--or not doing inspections at all--will mean problems later. That could cost you more work later, or even a lost bird. For example, desert sand wreaks havoc on an aircraft engine. To beat the sand problem, do engine flushes like your TM says, but do 'era more often in the desert. That can help increase an engine's efficiency. It won't won't Contraction of will not. won't will not won't will hurt to have a clean engine every time your bird flies. With a dirty engine, performance goes down. That's why sandy conditions may require more frequent flushes to keep engines up and running. If you don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. fight sand now, it means maintenance headaches for AVUM AVUM Aviation Unit Maintenance mechanics and even more work if AVIM shops have to repair damaged components. |
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