{"id":196654,"date":"2008-04-03T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/03\/f22-showing-itself-to-be-a-maintenance-pig\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T04:16:00","slug":"f22-showing-itself-to-be-a-maintenance-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/03\/f22-showing-itself-to-be-a-maintenance-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"F22 Showing Itself to be a Maintenance Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A07080c8b-3eb9-4402-a39c-41b0eb2db7c4\">Bill Sweetman Notes<\/a>, the F-22 is not even close to achieving its desired maintenance goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mean time between maintenance intervals is less than one hour.<\/li>\n<li>That number is half what it should have been at the end of system development and demonstration, in December 2005.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s one-third of the &#8220;mature&#8221; goal, which is supposed to be achieved in 100,000 operational flying hours, in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>It hasn&#8217;t improved in the past year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not academic.  Last year, there was a class-A mishap when an F-22 sucked in a piece of RAM and trashed an engine.<\/p>\n<p>The wild blue yonder boys seem determined to innovate themselves out of any meaningful military capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bill Sweetman Notes, the F-22 is not even close to achieving its desired maintenance goals: The mean time between maintenance intervals is less than one hour. That number is half what it should have been at the end of system development and demonstration, in December 2005. It&#8217;s one-third of the &#8220;mature&#8221; goal, which is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}