PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-730
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 730
SEPTEMBER 2013
20
PS 730
SEP 13
21
PS 730
SEP 13
Hold
on to
Tools
A
ircraft maintenance can’t be done without tools. But it takes only one dropped tool
to stop maintenance dead in its tracks.
For example, when you’re working in areas of your aircraft with moving parts—
like the rotor section or the engine or drive shaft areas—hold on to those tools tightly.
A dropped tool can short out electrical components, damage a drive shaft or worse.
Dropping or losing a tool in areas of moving parts could mean spending hour
upon hour trying to ±nd and retrieve the tool. Not only will you be unable to perform
aircraft run-ups, you may have to tear down parts of the aircraft to access a hard-to-
reach area where the tool landed.
The warning couldn’t be more obvious. Hold on to your tools during maintenance.
Your life, the aircrew’s lives and the life of your aircraft depend on it.
‘Course, there’s always the chance you might drop or forget a tool and not notice
it. That’s why you should inventory your tool box before the start and end of every
job no matter how routine or how many times you have done it in the past.
Hold
on to
Tools
New Army Aircraft Fuel
Now Approved!
All Aircraft…
Hold
on to
Tools
all army
aircraft
except
mq-1c
gray eagles
that use
JP-8 and
Jet A
fuel
are now
authorized by
maintenance
Information
message
(mIm) gen-
mIm-13-001
to use
f-24 fuel.
when using f-24 fuel
in your aircraft, note
that the freezing
point is -40°C versus
-4
7
°C for JP-8 fuel.
the fuel specification
changes require no
weight and balance
calculations for
aircraft when using
f-24 instead of JP-8.
and there are
no
mixing issues
with
the fuels.
f-24
is
Jet A
fuel with
the same
military
additives
that are
in JP-8.
hey, what the
heck
is going
on up there?
we’re
looking
for a
tool that
slipped
out of his
hand.
yeah, I
lost it some-
where in the
rotor head.
if I only held
onto my tool a
bit
tighter.
now our pmcs
is going to take
that Much
longer!
f-24 fuel is
not
listed in the
tms yet, so make a note until
all
aircraft tms are updated.
there are no airworth-
iness concerns about
operating engines with
f-24 fuel…
…provided those
engines are authorized
to operate with JP-8
and
Jet A
fuel.
sergeant
blade, is it true
that f-24 fuel
is now approved
by the army for
aircraft?
the word you’ve been
hearing about f-24 fuel
being used in aircraft is
good to go!
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