PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-630
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 630
MAY 2005
PS 630
MAY 05
35
AH-64A/D…
M
echanics, that
SLAM-BAM
is the sound of your AH-64 A or D model open
cockpit windows crashing down from rotor wash.
While on the flight line doing pre-flight inspections, maintenance or just working
around your bird, it’s safer and better to keep the cockpit windows closed when
you’re not inside.
If you don’t, the force of rotor wash can blow on the windows and stretch the
cables and damage the struts and supports. That can cause the windows to crash
down on you. Damaged windows won’t close properly.
To avoid this problem and possible harm to yourself, don’t work on your bird
with the windows open in strong winds or in aircraft rotor wash.
Wind from aircraft flying over put pressure on struts
the rotor
wash is
too much.
Here…
…and here
you have to get
in there and get
your
hands
dirty
to make sure your
equipment is up
to snuff.
those who
ignore
pm will
always
end
up
“dead in the
water.”
the battle
is not
necessarily
won by the
swift, but by
those who
take time to
do mainte-
nance first.
equipment
should
not
be
taken for
granted.
A little
extra
time
checking out
our sailboat
paid off for
us in the end.
A lack
of PM
will keep
you from
winning
the race.
hey, since you guys
aren’t working in
my
cockpit, how ‘bout
closing my windows?
preventive
and
maintenance
are
not dirty words.
from boats to
helicopters to tanks
and trucks,
nothing
moves or lasts long
without pm.
wha-a-a?
Hey, in
the end
omega
wins
because
of PM!
630.34-35(C)
4/4/05
5:12 PM
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