MFolks
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Post by MFolks on Aug 20, 2006 16:12:09 GMT 9
F-106 Missile bay door replacement
I was based at Hamilton AFB Ca. From 1969- 1970 and during my tour of duty I remember that two F-106A models had their missile bay doors replaced. This happened over 30 years ago and please do not
hold me to tail numbers.
The first aircraft door replacement occurred when the civil service structural repair shop called our shop about aft launcher
up-lock switches and how they were adjusted. I believe our shop said to adjust them like the other side.
Well, THAT SIDE was out of adjustment so when the civil service shop fast closed the doors we could hear a
double bang across three hangers when the doors caught the aft launchers! A lot of finger pointing and mentioning
you should have, and ref. to T.O such and such and !!!***##%!!?%$ went on for some time. I do not know if stripes were lost or who got sent where. The aft launchers and associated actuators and pivot systems had to be replaced along with the launcher wiring so that bird was down for quite a while.
The second aircraft door replacement happened during the night shift a few months later because someone did not remove a fwd
door actuator safety lock (painted red for safety). I believe on the right missile door actuator. The crew slammed or tried to
fast close the doors with again the distinctive double bang heard from our shop and everyone inside said ##@!!!&*??. When 1500 PSI of air makes actuators move and things are bound up metal bends and tears! Once more the brass paid a visit to the accident scene and back we went for more "training"on proper door and launcher operation.
On both occasions the civil service shop got the fun job of trimming the doors to fit (they come in oversized because each aircraft is +/ = a size ) and had a pile of aluminum chips,strips and swarf on the floor where the work was done and our shop got involved in rigging the doors for fit, operation, and door seal installation.
For many months after this spate of accidents I still jumped when someone did a trigger salvo and I listened for that distinctive
double bang.................
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Dan Pillsbury
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Post by Dan Pillsbury on Aug 22, 2006 8:58:39 GMT 9
We had a crew forget to remove an actuator safety lock on a B model... the B model had individual actuators in the front rather than the single. If I recall, it shoved the actuator up through whatever is above it (rear cockpit?) and made a helluva mess.
When we trimmed doors as weapons guys, we slow closed the doors, checked for alignment, made adjustments, repeat as needed. I recall it was a job that was a major pain in the ass! Almost as bad as R squaring a trunion box...
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