miamiair Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 To repair a wing leading edge, TO 1C-130A-3 or SMP 583 for a C-130H operated by a European air force? I 'll post why after a few replies. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorp1 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I think the following would apply: 1. If the aircraft were direct purchase from Lockheed use the SMP. 2. If they were aquired through FMS use USAF publications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiair Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 I'll give you my view, and others can comment and add some light to this... I think the SMP is for Civilian Hercs and TO's for military Hercs. Here's an example of a difference, for the same leading edge section, a skin repair requires two rows of rivets under the TO, and four rows under the SMP. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve1300 Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 I'll give you my view, and others can comment and add some light to this... I think the SMP is for Civilian Hercs and TO's for military Hercs. Here's an example of a difference, for the same leading edge section, a skin repair requires two rows of rivets under the TO, and four rows under the SMP. Why? I will take a guess at that for you: different engineers provided the instructions. A "typical" repair often calls for two rows of rivets using the closest rivets rows to the repair area as examples for size and pitch and spacing. An engineered repair takes the metal bearing strength and calculated required rivet size and number based on matching the metal bearing strength with the shear strength of the rivets. Using those two methods, it is possible to come up with a difference in repair instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmac Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 My take: SMP can be used for 130s or L 100s at operators discretion, but SMP is generally more conservative in both inspection intervals and repair instructions as it was designed for civil certificated aircraft and Lockheed wanted to minimize liability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duder Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 So, are you going with the TO 1C-130A-3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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