Serjames wrote:
You should see the US ones(s!). Massive massive
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It's a completely different world.
Even the USAF has manpower above and beyond the RAF in terms of personnel per airframe.
For eg, The RAF have a few guys of each trade to look after the entire sqn and they even train 'cross trade' as standard and everyone gets stuck in.
The USAF has a guy for each individual part for each individual airframe. When a US techie avionics guy asks a British Avionics Tech "which part of the avionics do you look after" they can't believe the reply of "all of it, including the weapons aiming systems and radar, oh and anything the other trades need a hand with"
Also, the refuelling and marshalling of the aurcraft is a separate trade in the US. The techies do it in the RAF after/before doing their trade stuff. Hence the term 'liney' (as in flight line)