#Ninox 3600 tent portable#

“A lot that goes into the spraying process is making the aircraft mission capable,” said Moniz. Approximately 2,700 production hours were saved with the Tent N Vent. The Tent N Vent cuts down production time and allows the aircraft part to be painted at Aviano, negating the need to send it to Belgium, said Moniz. It allows us to do the majority of our spraying outside.”Įleven aircraft parts have already been painted with the FMS-3600 coating using the Tent N Vent.

#Ninox 3600 tent portable#

“That's the functionality that they bring, they are portable facilities. “We can set up a Tent N Vent in the hangar or on the pads,” said Moniz.

At 16x5 feet long, airflow is used to create a vacuum in the plastic. The Tent N Vent is a portable facility used to spray paint on aircraft parts and contains a three-stage filter method to filter the air as it comes out. Cameron Keeney, 31st MXS ASM craftsman, reconfigured the current mobile paint equipment Tent N Vent system to accommodate the new FMS-3600 coating. Jacob Moniz, 31st MXS ASM assistant section chief and U.S. To combat the challenge, two innovators, Master Sgt. Since some aircraft panels are bigger than nine square inches, ASM Airmen were required to spray the part, but without an operational Paint Barn a solution was needed. “Anything smaller than that, we can do TO-approved touch up repairs by brushing it or rolling it.” “The tasking order for spraying paint on aircraft states that any panel bigger than nine square inches has to be sprayed,” said Keeney. This resulted in all of the aircraft having to be flown under Partly Mission Capable status due to an inability to maintain the aircrafts’ radar cross section. As panels were replaced on the F-16, they were never painted properly with FMS-3600. In an effort to remain mission ready, aircraft aren’t sent if just one panel needs to be painted. Since Aviano’s Paint Barn has been unoperational since 2018, if any aircraft part requires painting, the whole aircraft must be sent to SABCA, a Belgian aerospace company. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons at Aviano are required to maintain coating of FMS 3600 paint, a radar absorbent material that enables the aircraft to be stealthier. Airmen assigned to the 31st Maintenance Squadron, aircraft structural maintenance section faced a challenge head-on and innovated a solution through the ‘Tent N Vent’ procedure. AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy – When dealing with a challenge, some find it easy to give in or buckle under the pressure that’s coming their way.