PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-620
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 620
JULY 2004
PS 620
35
All Aircraft…
PS 620
JUL 04
34
W
ell, you’ve served your time in the sandbox, and redeployed to your home station.
But this is no time to kick back and relax!
Your bird put in long hours in the sand and
had a long sea voyage home. But sand
(remember the sand?) got into every nook and
cranny, and the salt air and sea spray may have
added salt and moisture to the mix. Now you
need to get busy to restore your helicopters to
their pre-deployment
condition.
1.
Open all access doors and remove
all non-permanently installed panels
and fairings. Inspect for damage.
Here’s
what you
need to
do…
we’re all
banged
up…
…and full
of sand!
ptui!
I feel
like I’ve
aged 20
years!
will we
ever
be
well
again!?
relax,
fellas!
solid
mainte-
nance
will put
you right
again!
you know what
that means,
eddie?
yeah,
yeah…
but eddie
sure makes
a
good
chicken.
yeah,
dad, and
you
don’t
end up
dressed
like a
chicken
.
I had a sergeant in
the army named
half-
mast
… he always
told us we could save
ourselves
lots
of
trouble just by doing
what the technical
manual said.
later that day
in front of the
cleaver house…
the
beav
won!
620. 34-35 (C)
6/3/04
6:14 PM
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