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Pardon the ignorance, but what are the centre barrels?
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Essentially it is the 'heart' of the Hornets fuselage. It is where the wings and forward fuselage connect onto. I have heard through the grapevine that they may only do 15 aircraft. |
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Just to elaborate on what Damien said...
The centre barrel (CB) is made up of three major internal structural components through which the engine air passes but also onto which the aircraft's wings, undercarriage, engines and forward fuselage are attached. If you were looking at a Hornet side on, it would go from just behind the engine intakes to a point just past the leading edge of the vertical stabiliser. In US Navy Hornets, the CBs have taken a real beating around the undercarriage area thanks to the heavy landings aboard aircraft carriers, whereas our Hornets are suffering more in the wing attachment areas because the RAAF has a greater emphasis on air-to-air combat. These components are built by Northrop Grumman for Boeing (or in our case, L3), and it is a HUGE operation to basically strip a Hornet down to replace the CB, requiring more than 20,000 separate components for each aircraft! Cheers
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Is the An-124 coming back any time soon?
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Those pics of mine are now out of the queue and into the database. They can now be found here.
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Perhaps only 10 now need repair
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