{"id":132138,"date":"2022-10-15T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=132138"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:10:26","slug":"herky-bird-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=132138","title":{"rendered":"Herky Bird update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since grounding the -H fleet 27 September, the Ar Force has cleared two of their C-130Hs to return to operational status.<\/p>\n

The inspection process includes figuring out if propellers have defects and, if they need to be replaced, installing unaffected 54H60 assemblies from the Air Force\u2019s existing supply, or speeding up the installation of the newer NP2000, which has eight propeller blades.<\/p>\n

The Air Force Reserve said earlier this month that Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia, which already had new propellers installed on most of its C-130Hs and was largely unaffected by the groundings, was planning to ship the handful of propeller assemblies it had in stock to other reserve units to help get their planes flying again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the planes was repaired with a new prop assembly, and one was inspected and found airworthy. One suspects they are hopefully doing emergency inspections on all of them, approving the ones they can and setting priorities for repairs on the rest. One good-news\/bad-news item:<\/p>\n

Collins Aerospace, which makes the propellers, said in a statement to Defense News earlier this month that the problems emerged after the company delivered them to the Air Force, following a maintenance procedure the company did not perform.<\/p>\n

Air Force Times via yahoo, both quotes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like Collins is saying this is an Air Force-caused issue – will be interesting to follow further developments. Grounding most of the type? Somebody got some ‘splainin’ to do.<\/p>\n

I’d love to be snarky and mention they have almost 130 planes to go and at this rate, etc. etc., but setting up defect screening to wrap your arms around a major issue takes some time.\u00a0\u00a0 Just speculating – I doubt they will want to mix 4-blade and 8-blade props, so replacements will be in lots of four props, right? If upon inspection they find 2 of\u00a0 4 propeller assemblies bad, can they re-use the other good two on other 4-blade planes or is that a bad idea? C130 guys, please help out here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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