Airframes

The jobs include engineers, salespeople, marketing staff and "touch labor," which Hancock is quoted as identifying as airframes and power plants mechanics and avionics technicians. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The crew has trained in several technical areas, such as airframes, hydraulics and avionics, electrical systems, maintenance control and most importantly training the flight crew attached to VMM-263. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The SDSR has already made clear there will be a reduction in the number of assets and airframes across all three services, and that the RAF would be reduced by around 5,000 personnel to a total of about 33,000 by 2015," he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

OSC completed 2 airframes, one with all systems installed, and both are now rotting out at Edwards AFB. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These aging airframes reportedly will get sophisticated radars and electronic countermeasures that in some ways will make them more capable than the U.S. Air Force's own F-16s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They flew those old airframes like madmen, something to see. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition to the many practical skills required to perform their respective roles, pilots and ATCOs require extensive knowledge of the following: meteorology; physics; geography; navigation; maps and charts; theory of flight; mechanics; aircraft construction; airframes and engines; electrics, electronics and avionics; instrumentation; hydraulics; rules of the air; aviation rules and regulations, both in the air and on the ground; and air traffic control regulations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Countries that cannot afford to build fleets of the most advanced supersonic fighters can afford to build pods with clever software to mount on older airframes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pending Skylon "a game changing enhancement" (Andrew Swallow at June 1, 2009 12: 40 AM) 1/NASA should ONLY be R&Ding advanced TPS, airframes, in flight liquifaction of air, hypersonic staging, ... with the view to a singlar prototype TSTO Shuttle Mk III (Pan Am Clipper) as the next Big Thing ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is it being proposed that new airframes are to be manufactured or just conversions of existing ones? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Same thing with a prolonged Shuttle extension with only 3 remaining airframes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In noting the Comet's passing from service, he fails to note that Britain's Royal Air Force has kept flying a fleet of Nimrod MR2 surveillance planes that are built on Comet airframes. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2010)

Earlier this year, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates fired the program manager, withheld more than $600 million from the contractor and slashed the near-term procurement by more than a hundred airframes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The pilots lurched their airframes back into the air and veered off, rotors thumping. ❋ C. J. Chivers (2010)