You talk as if the C-141B engines were not changed regularly.
I'm sure they were changed regularly. And that was my point- when "changed",
fresh motors are installed and new parts are required to rework those motors
(at some point). As time goes by, spare parts become VERY expensive.


Robbing would not be the work I would use.
My aviation experience comes from "shooting them off the pointy end" and
"robbing" is just a nickname for cannibalization (which is what you call
pulling from one bird to install in another). Nothing was meant by it- it's
a very common aviation term. Robbing quickly triples the man-hours and is
always my last resort.


Larry
AECS (AW/SW/MTS)
Disabled Combat Veteran
USN Retired

20 years of Navy in my rear view mirror
and getting further away every day ;-)







"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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"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