3 Navy planes damaged after wrong oil used for engines. Engines on three E-2C Hawkeyes were damaged and needed to be replaced

[rangerrebew]

3 Navy planes damaged after wrong oil used for engines
Engines on three E-2C Hawkeyes were damaged and needed to be replaced

    February 10, 2017
 
3 Navy planes damaged after wrong oil used for engines

An E-2C Hawkeye, from the “Liberty Bells” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 15, approaches the flight deck of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Burke/DVIDSHUB)

Brock Vergakis
The Virginian-Pilot

NORFOLK — Days before the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush set out from Norfolk last month, the Navy had to scramble to fix a major problem with the ship's squadron of early warning, command and control aircraft.

The engines on three of the squadron's four E-2C Hawkeyes had been damaged and needed to be replaced.

The culprit?

The wrong oil was used in each $80 million, twin-engine turboprop aircraft.

https://www.military1.com/military-weapons/article/1701549014-3-navy-planes-damaged-after-wrong-oil-used-for-engines/

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Never use 5w30 when you need 10w30!

[Frank Cannon]

The replacements come at a time when the Navy says that half its aircraft can't fly because they're awaiting maintenance or lack needed spare parts.

Yet they are still giving away Obamaphones.

[Elderberry]

One of my neighborhood friends, when he was an Army helicopter crew chief in Alaska, refueled a helicopter with Mo-gas. One engine exploded on start-up. They medical discharged him after that.