"Larry" wrote in message
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Tex suggested: Should there not be a lot of TF-33 engines in
the stockpile from retired C-141B aircraft?
Robbing engines from other birds is not a solution. High-time motors are
still required to be reworked with new internal components at specific
intervals.

As the demand goes down, the service is forced to contract out for small
quantities of replacement parts at "sky high" prices.

There is also the economy issue: the old motors also burn a lot of fuel
and
there will be a definite savings "per flight hour" that helps to offset
the
cost of new motors.


I know about engines being reworked. You talk as if the C-141B engines were
not changed regularly. In the case of "pay me not or pay me later the
services will almost always elect to "pay me later. Robbing would not be
the work I would use. It would only be appropriate if the C-141 airframes
were still being used. Salvaged seems to describe the situation best.

Tex