Photo by Joseph Andes | Fleet Readiness Center East | 12.11.2023
Jordan Barnes, a senior engineer on the H-53 Fleet Support Team (FST) at Fleet Readiness Center East, demonstrates the use of a new airless foamer while filming a video training aid in support of updated engine wash procedures for the Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter. The new engine wash procedures and training developed by the H-53 FST are aimed at enhancing time on wing and......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 12.05.2023
A team of artisans and engineers at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently developed and refined a new procedure for checking an H-53 spar fitting’s mount feet for excessive gaps, improving the manner in which the aircraft’s spar fittings are evaluated for fit and resulting in a higher acceptance rate and faster turnaround times for the components. Team members included, from left,......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 12.05.2023
Jason Gaskill, an H-53 airframe production support engineer with the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Engineering Production Line Support Division at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), examines successive rounds of impressions left by pressure-sensitive film while checking contact surfaces on the mount feet of an H-53 spar fitting. The use of the pressure-sensitive film to identify high areas......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 12.05.2023
Jason Gaskill, an H-53 airframe production support engineer with the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Engineering Production Line Support Division at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), and Michael Wells, a sheet metal worker in the H-53 Aircraft Components Shop at FRCE, examine the impressions left by pressure-sensitive film while checking contact surfaces on the mount feet of an H-53 spar......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 12.05.2023
Shevaun Jones, a sheet metal worker in the H-53 Aircraft Components Shop at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), uses a feeler gauge to check for excessive gaps on the mount feet of an H-53 spar fitting. The gap check is one step in a new procedure developed and refined by a team of artisans and engineers at FRCE in order to improve the manner in which the aircraft’s spar fittings are......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 12.05.2023
Michael Wells, a sheet metal worker in the H-53 Aircraft Components Shop at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), prepares a plate used to check an H-53 spar fitting’s mount feet for excessive gaps. The plate is used as part of a procedure developed and refined by a team of artisans and engineers at FRCE in order to improve the manner in which the aircraft’s spar fittings are evaluated for......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 11.02.2021
Glenn Roberts, a pneudraulics mechanic in the Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) hydraulics shop, assembles an H-53 primary servo cylinder. The primary servo cylinder is one of the items FRCE repairs as part of its H-53 Public-Private Partnership with Sikorsky. This partnership is helping meet the fleet’s needs for critical parts for CH-53E Super Stallion and MH-53E Sea Dragon heavy-lift......
Photo by Heather Wilburn | Fleet Readiness Center East | 11.02.2021
Clarence Hargett, a mechanical parts repairer in the Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) blade shop, replaces sections of the trim tab on an H-53 main rotor blade to prepare it for painting. The main rotor blade is one of the items FRCE repairs as part of its H-53 Public-Private Partnership with Sikorsky. This partnership is helping meet the fleet’s needs for critical parts for CH-53E Super......
