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Maintainers meet for A-10 repair lesson

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:33 pm
by 308Mike
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Maintainers meet for A-10 repair lesson

Staff report
Posted : Tuesday Nov 18, 2008 17:08:07 EST

Wing crack worries continue to ground about 190 A-10 Thunderbolts.

To get the fighters back into the sky more quickly, a team of traveling trainers is teaching maintainers to repair the cracks at their home bases.

About 40 technicians from several A-10 bases gathered Nov. 12 at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., for hands-on instruction from a repair team from Ogden Air Logistics Center, Utah.

The Air Force had considered repairing most of the cracked wings at Ogden, the center for A-10 overhauls, but doing the work at bases where A-10s are assigned should save money and time.

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