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Comment by CobaltFire

3 years ago

We use these in military aviation across the world. Stupidly useful when you’ve got 100+ lbs of tools to run out to a down aircraft that needs fixed to make a mission.

Also in shipyards, for similar reasons.

I can't talk about details but I know of large industry-leading aerospace manufacturers who don't use MMC for flight parts because they need batch-level part tracking for failure investigations, and MMC doesn't offer that.

  • Pretty sure the USAF doesn’t care too much about the batch number for the tricycle the tech uses to get to the plane…

    But I also wouldn’t be surprised to find out that a government auditor complained about it too

  • I wasn't talking about using MMC for aviation parts; I was referring to the industrial tricycles.