WEBVTT 00:04.040 --> 00:07.230 I'm texting just moose I'm here at 00:07.240 --> 00:09.560 balad Airbase Iraq . I worked in the , 00:09.560 --> 00:13.230 in the lab . We have seven 00:13.230 --> 00:15.452 methods of inspection here , which I'll 00:15.452 --> 00:17.619 go over here in a little bit for you . 00:18.040 --> 00:20.580 Originally , I'm from Norfolk Nebraska . 00:20.790 --> 00:22.790 I'm stationed out of hill Air Force 00:22.790 --> 00:26.450 base in Utah and we're here having fun . 00:27.040 --> 00:29.450 My family lives in a little town called 00:29.450 --> 00:31.980 Hoskins Nebraska . But you'll find in 00:31.980 --> 00:34.091 Norfolk Nebraska on the map . It's in 00:34.091 --> 00:36.500 Northeast Nebraska . Right . What India 00:36.500 --> 00:38.600 does is we check the structural 00:38.600 --> 00:41.860 integrity of aircraft and aircraft 00:41.870 --> 00:44.650 related parts . We have seven different 00:44.650 --> 00:47.150 methods of doing this . The first one 00:47.160 --> 00:50.290 is any current . What that basically is . 00:50.290 --> 00:53.970 It checks the skin of the aircraft 00:53.980 --> 00:57.480 for cracks . The second method would be 00:57.480 --> 00:59.840 ultrasonic . It's similar to that of 00:59.840 --> 01:02.230 what's used in a hospital . We use a 01:02.240 --> 01:04.660 much simpler version , but it's also 01:04.660 --> 01:07.550 used to detect cracks . The 3rd is 01:07.560 --> 01:09.671 called Magnetic Particle Inspection . 01:09.840 --> 01:12.410 And basically what you do there is 01:12.420 --> 01:15.990 you'll magnetize an iron parts and 01:15.990 --> 01:19.080 you'll spray iron iron filings in a oil 01:19.090 --> 01:22.970 on to the part . And the , 01:22.980 --> 01:25.890 if there is a defect , it will attract 01:25.890 --> 01:28.720 all the iron filings to the , to the 01:28.720 --> 01:32.060 defect and it'll cause it to show up uh 01:32.440 --> 01:35.230 liquid penetration is basically a green 01:35.230 --> 01:38.100 type of paint which is put onto apart 01:38.170 --> 01:40.337 and after it sits for a certain amount 01:40.337 --> 01:43.230 of time . We wipe that paint off and it 01:43.240 --> 01:46.530 will show uh , wherever a crack is on 01:46.540 --> 01:50.270 any type of metal . The fifth type of 01:50.280 --> 01:52.370 inspection we do is X ray . We don't 01:52.370 --> 01:55.290 have a lot of X ray here at balad but 01:55.300 --> 01:57.522 it's used to see in the parts which are 01:57.560 --> 02:00.050 difficult or impossible to take apart . 02:00.540 --> 02:04.100 We also use the chip and joke um , 02:04.170 --> 02:07.070 methods which are seen here and those 02:07.070 --> 02:09.560 are used to check the integrity of 02:09.940 --> 02:12.470 aircraft engines . Uh pretty pretty 02:12.470 --> 02:15.370 important in some aspects because in 02:15.370 --> 02:17.092 some cases will actually catch 02:17.092 --> 02:19.148 something before it happens And uh , 02:19.148 --> 02:21.460 knowing that we prevented a $40 million 02:21.460 --> 02:24.150 jet from crashing is uh pretty awesome 02:24.150 --> 02:26.040 responsibility . There's a lot of 02:26.040 --> 02:28.380 different science that we use and it's 02:28.380 --> 02:30.547 interesting to see how the science has 02:30.547 --> 02:33.610 applied to the job that we do and it's 02:33.610 --> 02:35.610 not only applicable here in the Air 02:35.610 --> 02:38.340 Force but it's a , it's a background . 02:38.340 --> 02:40.340 You can take once you leave the Air 02:40.340 --> 02:42.562 Force and go into the civilian sector . 02:44.540 --> 02:46.596 I am starting Harville . I'm part of 02:46.596 --> 02:48.596 the aircraft structural maintenance 02:48.596 --> 02:50.762 here at balad Air Base Home station is 02:50.762 --> 02:52.780 Hill Air Force Base Utah hometown 02:52.780 --> 02:54.947 Mountain Home Idaho Here in our shop . 02:54.947 --> 02:56.836 Aircraft structural maintenance , 02:56.836 --> 02:58.502 that's exactly what it is . A 02:58.502 --> 02:58.380 structural maintenance of the aircraft . 02:58.390 --> 03:01.290 Air frame panels , bulkheads , anything 03:01.290 --> 03:03.290 structure on the aircraft , we deal 03:03.290 --> 03:05.290 with a lot of events , composites , 03:05.290 --> 03:07.234 craft like structures , fiberglass 03:07.234 --> 03:06.650 structures , anything of that sort of 03:06.650 --> 03:09.430 16 has a few stuff like that . We deal 03:09.430 --> 03:11.541 with all that stuff . All the special 03:11.541 --> 03:13.874 fasteners . We deal with all the rivets , 03:13.874 --> 03:16.097 huck's various factors that go into the 03:16.097 --> 03:18.460 airframe do all that special grommets 03:19.240 --> 03:21.690 that's tubing were manufactured tubing 03:21.690 --> 03:24.260 here and that's pretty much what we do . 03:24.640 --> 03:26.751 It's pretty good feeling being a part 03:26.751 --> 03:28.807 of like making these things fly , do 03:28.807 --> 03:30.807 what we do every day . It's kind of 03:30.807 --> 03:32.918 cool like take the aircraft all apart 03:32.918 --> 03:35.029 down to bare nothing and then putting 03:35.029 --> 03:34.440 it back together and then watch them go 03:34.440 --> 03:36.662 off flying mission . It's a pretty good 03:36.662 --> 03:38.662 feeling and makes part of the field 03:38.662 --> 03:40.773 team . Okay being here , it's kind of 03:40.773 --> 03:42.607 cool because we work on a lot of 03:42.607 --> 03:44.718 different aircraft we work on because 03:44.718 --> 03:46.551 we're not just aircraft specific 03:46.551 --> 03:46.090 construction business . We support the 03:46.090 --> 03:48.312 1 30 ramp , the F sixteens and even the 03:48.312 --> 03:50.257 predators or the army side college 03:50.257 --> 03:52.257 helicopters and think that they can 03:52.257 --> 03:54.368 when we do favors for them . So I got 03:54.368 --> 03:54.300 to hand form out of just a flat piece 03:54.300 --> 03:56.750 of metal . Nothing make a piece of 03:56.750 --> 03:58.528 exclusion that had to go into a 03:58.528 --> 04:00.694 helicopter on the army side . That was 04:00.694 --> 04:02.806 pretty cool thing to do , helping out 04:02.806 --> 04:04.917 your brothers in arms sisters in arms 04:04.917 --> 04:07.139 stuff . So that was pretty cool stuff . 04:07.139 --> 04:09.250 And just the interaction we have with 04:09.250 --> 04:11.139 everybody . Staff sergeant Andrew 04:11.139 --> 04:13.306 Evangelisti . 332 M . Xs from Hill Air 04:13.306 --> 04:16.520 Force Base Utah aircraft males 04:16.520 --> 04:20.480 technologist . We support combat 04:20.490 --> 04:23.260 operations by machining welding and 04:23.260 --> 04:25.482 heat treating various metal out lawyers 04:25.482 --> 04:27.760 to provide parts for the aircraft . 04:28.840 --> 04:32.200 They use our parts to repair various 04:32.200 --> 04:34.311 components on the aircraft , get them 04:34.311 --> 04:36.570 back up and running , they couldn't 04:36.570 --> 04:38.681 repair the parts , they often have to 04:38.681 --> 04:40.903 buy brand new ones with manufacturers . 04:40.903 --> 04:43.237 So we do a lot of monetary savings . Um , 04:43.340 --> 04:45.480 time savings , especially we can 04:45.480 --> 04:47.702 manufacture parts locally versus having 04:47.702 --> 04:49.758 to procure them and wait for them to 04:49.758 --> 04:51.869 arrive from the United States or from 04:51.869 --> 04:55.030 the manufacturer . We manufactured a 04:55.040 --> 04:57.230 significantly complicated part for 04:57.230 --> 04:59.740 deployed debris from facility . This is 04:59.750 --> 05:01.972 to the latch mechanism on that facility 05:02.140 --> 05:04.307 Until we got this part done , they had 05:04.307 --> 05:07.450 to man with a guard 24-72 05:08.040 --> 05:10.260 authenticate access to this facility 05:10.270 --> 05:12.437 where they do the aircraft debriefings 05:12.437 --> 05:15.100 from the pilots . We were able to make 05:15.100 --> 05:17.790 this part in three days , it's no 05:17.790 --> 05:19.846 longer made by the manufacturer . So 05:19.846 --> 05:22.760 the time to procure a brand new block 05:22.760 --> 05:26.340 assembly would have been unknown a week 05:26.340 --> 05:28.630 or more easily and that whole time they 05:28.630 --> 05:30.852 would have had to man it with a guard , 05:32.640 --> 05:34.960 the machining time . Oftentimes not 05:34.960 --> 05:37.790 very long . It's the setups that take a 05:37.790 --> 05:40.012 significant amount of time . We have to 05:40.012 --> 05:41.790 set all machines up , make sure 05:41.790 --> 05:43.901 everything's clean straight dalit all 05:43.901 --> 05:45.957 in so we can maintain our accuracies 05:45.957 --> 05:47.901 and tolerances and then the actual 05:47.901 --> 05:49.901 cutting time often doesn't take all 05:49.901 --> 05:52.320 that long . Our mission is essential 05:52.320 --> 05:54.153 and that we support a variety of 05:54.153 --> 05:56.320 aircraft and non aircraft operations . 05:56.750 --> 05:58.694 Even the army comes to us a lot of 05:58.694 --> 06:00.472 times to repair parts for their 06:00.472 --> 06:03.050 aircraft , helicopters Humvees , MRAPs , 06:03.050 --> 06:04.883 we do a lot of different support 06:04.883 --> 06:07.217 operations . Just the nature of our job , 06:07.217 --> 06:09.328 we're able to make almost anything of 06:09.328 --> 06:11.439 metal and sometimes even non metallic 06:11.439 --> 06:13.606 items , so we have a huge footprint on 06:13.606 --> 06:15.439 this based on what we can do and 06:15.439 --> 06:17.772 capabilities that we have for the wings . 06:17.840 --> 06:20.007 We employ a variety machines , milling 06:20.007 --> 06:22.570 machines , lays cutting torches , 06:22.570 --> 06:26.120 welding equipment , variety equipment 06:26.120 --> 06:28.080 that industry also uses in the 06:28.080 --> 06:30.600 manufacture of just everything from 06:30.600 --> 06:31.750 automobiles to aircraft .