Jan Herzog, a Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) engineer, holds the template designed in the iHub that can show distortion in an F414 engine component. Use of the template has led to a cost savings of more than $300,000.

With the Command’s strategic imperatives of readiness and speed to fleet in mind, Jan Herzog and Loyd Broom went on a routine site visit to Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) West in Lemoore, California, to review afterburner module maintenance practices.

While there, Herzog, an aerospace engineer in Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Propulsion and Power components (combustor/afterburner) branch at Patuxent River, saw maintainers discarding a large amount of secondary seal supports (SSS) for the F414 engines on the F-18 Hornet because they were bent or distorted. The SSS is a component on the F414 engine that goes into the nozzle on the aft part of the engine […]

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