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By Bob Shepherd

After approximately twenty years of SAS operations, together with a by no means earlier than released position within the notorious Bravo 0 patrol, Bob retired from the army to paintings as an consultant at the overseas advertisement defense circuit.

Certain his most threatening days have been at the back of him, Bob settled right into a sedate existence taking care of VIPs. Then Sept. 11 occurred. Bob stumbled on himself again in struggle zones on assignments way more perilous than something he had encountered within the SAS: from ferrying newshounds throughout firing strains within the West financial institution and Gaza to vacationing to the center of Osama bin Laden’s Afghan lair. As a part of a two-man workforce, Bob looked for ITN Correspondent Terry Lloyd’s lacking team in Basra, Iraq, whereas in Afghanistan, he used to be compelled to spend the evening because the merely Westerner in Khost – with a $25,000 bounty on his head.

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What activities are common between repair and FACO for the JSF? Would a complete FACO line require additional investment beyond that required for MR&U? How would servicing and assembling a mix of JSF variants affect the required investment? Examine Potential UK Facilities for JSF FACO RAND Europe surveyed UK private and government-owned facilities to assess their capabilities for FACO. The four sites studied were suggested by the MOD and include BAE SYSTEMS, DARA, Marshall Aerospace, and Rolls-Royce.

16 Assembling and Supporting the JSF in the United Kingdom • remote input/outputs—fuel, hydraulics, • fuel/ground refuel receptacle operation, • fuel/aerial refuel receptacle fuel functioning, • OBIGGS (On-Board Inert Gas–Generating System) testing, • escape system checkout, • survival kit/seawars system checkout, • green engine run (auxiliary power unit, environmental control systems, engine), • engine starter/general checkout, • bleed air/emergency power mode, integrated power package checkout, • Environmental Control System (ECS) ground test, • cabin pressure checkout, • On-Board Oxygen-Generating System (OBOGS) checkout, • green engine run (preflight and mechanical), • Crash-Survivable Functional Data Recorder download/clear, • Prognostic Health Management checkout, • flight readiness checkout, • company functional check flights numbers 1 and 2, and • delivery to the customer.

For some early modifications/upgrades, a field team dispatched from Lockheed Martin would probably install the modified equipment into JSFs at opera­ tional bases. So the question might be asked, what would drive the UK to establish an in-country airframe depot maintenance capabil­ ity? There are several potential reasons. First, the MOD might want to have its own capability to repair battle­ damaged or crash-damaged aircraft that require extensive airframe repairs beyond the capability or practicality of base-level organisa­ tions and facilities.

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