mj-1 Jammer problems (Read 2,942 times)

Kind of interesting. In the pictures of 106's on the blog is a picture of 56-0461 in the background and he points out it is here now on display.

Lee

thanks Jim. When I get back to the Museum, I'll have to look at it again. I was driving it and I checked the fuel tank; fuel was about an inch above the port in the tank bottom. I saw full fuel in the separator bowl and the electric pump spooled up when it switched it on. When we changed the filter, the filter canister was also full of fuel.

Based on your suggestions, I'll bet that it got an air pocket in the fuel line, since I was bouncing around on terrain. I remember now that I used to have a similar problem with my diesel Peugots. They would loose injector prime If I was low or out of fuel (they used a Bosch mechanical injection system).

Unfortunatley we don't have a -1 TO on the jammer. Will have to fake it.

As a parting comment, you may be an "AGE PUKE" but without the AGE working well, us knuckle-draggers couldn't get the weapons loaded safely!

You were an often maligned and ignored group; but absolutely essential to mission effectiveness :salute

I sure wish you were here right now!

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Thanks, Jim and Shadowgunner. Ground Power used to grate on a lot of AGE types, but it was better than some things we were called. Name changed from Aircraft and Missile Ground Support Equipment Repairman to Aerospace Ground Ground Equipment Repairman while I was in tech school at Chanute in 1961-62. Always thought the "Aerospace" was presumptious. The equipment with the F-106 was considerably more complex than with other aircraft. We even had a "Z" shredout for awhile, which MPC ignored.

Jim If I remember correctly it was AGE Weenes and MA-1 Scope Dopes and Hdy Bubble Chaser and Electrican Spark Chaser and Armament B B Stacker,Muzzle F###er or load toads and last the ones who thought they were gods the Tire Kicker or Ramp Tramps. They really got bad when POMO came in.

Bear :green-beer :yellow-beer :patriotic-flagwaver :god_bless_usa

Thank God I was someplace else when POMO, whatever it was came about..... Was it part of ADC or that other command?? I remember SAC and their ridiculous program called PRIDE..
The tire kickers knew they weren't gods, just his right hand troops..... I was gone from ADC when they began to assign other specialists (MA-1) to the a/c... Without all of the specialists (after the 50s), all the c/c had was an expensive static display.... Until the late 50s most crewchiefs did everything on their plane- yes, I R&R my share of ARC-27s, replaced barrels on my Browning .50s, boresighted same, replaced fuel controls, cells and tanks, replaced most hyd components.... There was no such thing as egress, nor was there a tire shop, so you know who did the canopy and seat removals, replaced tires while your bird was airborn, most of the time we even repacked our own droque chutes..... About the only time you saw a specialist was when your bird was in major or minor PE Insp- and no the engine shop didn't pull the engine, the crewchief/dock crew did...Most of the time the c/c became the asst dock chief.... The Ftr Bmber Sqdn I was in had 5 AGE (ground power) techs- a TSgt,SSgt and A/1c and perhaps a couple of A/2c. Armamnet had maybe 8-10 people, mostly bomb assemblers, gun action repair people.. Radio shop had maybe 3 people, inst. about the same, engine shop had maybe 10, hyd and sheet metal maybe had 3 each... We had 25 F-86s and 2 T-33s... OBTW, I also linked and color dipped my own ammo as well as cleaned my guns after the last flight of the day before I got to leave... When I came into ADC in '56 it wasn't that much different... When I left the AF in 77, I was at ATC FlyTrng with T-38s and T-37s and the crew chief as such, no longer existed..... He was assigned a plane in the AM and he serviced LOX, engine oil, refueled the a/c and cleaned the canopy and windshield. He also changed wheels(with the tires already mounted) and changed brakes... The taxi check was done by an IP, most engine runs were done by the flight chief or an engine troop......

Use to be that a good crew chief generally had his bird preflighted before roll call (oh yes we stood roll call) and at the end of the day, in most cases some one had to call the mess hall that some troops would be late- they held chow for us- military people run the mess hall......In late '55 I had to compete against cooks, APs (Air Police if you are PC) firemen and carpenters from civil engineering for SSgt. We had a quota of seven for an entire ftr bmber wing because the RIF that was going to hit full force in '57 had already started..... So, some of OLDer c/c had earned the right to be a bit cocky, not arrogant, mind you, but cocky to say the least.... BTW the guys in Base Flight changed their own engines and props on the Gooney, L-20 Beavers, and on the T-6......... We were our own specialists in those days.... About todays c/c, I haven't the foggiest.... But am thankful that all of the specialists eventually evolved into todays Craftsman, as the AF Times called them...

:thanks :salute

Thanks to all for the assistance.

I was able to get the jammer running today. Wound up topping up the fuel and bleeding the fuel system from filter inlet all the way out to injector return line. She fought me most of the day; but eventually I got all the air bubbles out of the system. Voila!! Something I never learned as a weapons guy. Ahh the pleasures of volunteer work.

Thanks again to all for the help.

Didn't POMO come around the same time as "ADTAC" happened?

What may I ask is POMO? I retired in 1976 and never heard of it.
I was stationed at tyndal from august 1959 thru dec 1968 one year out for viet nam.All I ever seen of MA-1 was a bunch of over paid (pro pay)guys sitting around in a blue step van playing cards. They did not do any other maint other than mock up that i know of. :salute :

Production Oriented Maintenance Organization (POMO)