KTBS: Keeping the B-52 looking good
How do you keep an airplane that's bumping 60 years old looking good?
“Send it to the gym every day. We are the gym," said Master Sgt. Billy Cliff, aircraft structural supervisor with Barksdale Air Force Base's 307th Bomb Wing.
It's the airmen from the Barksdale Air Force Base's Metal Sheet Shop that keep the huge aircraft picture perfect. Essentially they are in charge of the skin of the aircraft.
When it's time, they bring in all 32 pieces of the plane's cowling and inspect each one by one, inch by inch. They fix cracks, change rivets and even paint the B-52.
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Long ago a guy who worked for Air Canada in maintenance told me about AC's maintenance and recorded keeping practices. They regularly inspected their planes and documented every thing they did right down to replacing a rivet that was showing signs of cracking.
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