Airforce Maintenance and Planning

Contents Preface Introduction 1 The Military Aircraft 2 Maintenance Planning 3 Relationship of Ranges of Servicing to Units 4 Categories of StoresEquipment 5 Maintenance Provisioning 6 First Second and Third Line Spares 7 Provisioning of Tyres and Tubes 8 RepairOverhaul Programme-Aircraft and Aero-Engines 9 RepairOverhaul Programme-Rotables 10 Servicing of Ground Equipment 11 Provisioning of Fourth Line Servicing Spares 12 Glossary of Elementary Aeronautical Terms 13 Glossary of Operational Terms 14 Common Air Force Abbreviations Index Any air force in the world which desires to be self sufficient in aircraft maintenance has to have its own repairoverhaul agencies for servicing the fleet of aircraft aero-engines rotables and other associated equipment; a task which requires careful advance planning and investmentIn this book an attempt has been made to pen down the genesis of assessing spares requirement for 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th line servicing of airframes and aero-engines with particular emphasis on forecasting optimum number of repairoverhaul arisings of air frames aero-engines and rotables and the optimum number of repairoverhauls that should actually be undertaken so as not to inflate the inventory of serviceable assets beyond authorized limits The theories related to assessment of optimum quanta of spares for undertaking the repairoverhaul tasks as well as first and second line servicing as also the associated terminologies have been explained lucidlyIt is hoped that the book will be immensely helpful for all officers and airmen of the technical and logistics branches of the air forces of all the developing as well as underdeveloped countries for optimizing the inventory and utilizing the savings thus accrued for further modernization.…