JayBird
Junior Member
But aren't we all just "fan-boys" ??
Well... you have the fan boys like me who sees nice pictures of new equipments and gets excited for a few days, and that's the end of it and move on for some other new eye catching equipments.
And then you have some "fan boys" in SDF who look at the pics and could make in depth analysis on the equipments that would make some so call experts out there blush.
And then you have another type of 'fan boys" who has written books and articles for publishing around the world or being posted on professional websites. Not to mention all the ex-military "fan boys" in SDF. If that's the definition of "fan boys" then I agree we are all just "fan boys".
Back on WS-10A/B, I don't think there was ever any official numbers released regarding WS-10A/B service life. But China's Air Force 5719 engine maintenance plant was able to extend the full life span of eariler AL-31F from 900 hours to 1,500 hours with some modification according one PLA newspaper article a while back. I will expect WS-10A/B full life span and MTBO to be better than AL-31F now.
But then from Wikipedia AL-31F MTBO is 1,000 hours with a full-life span of 3000 hours (Maybe this is the latest variant of AL-31F? Or the AL-31F exported to China was early variant or monkey version.) And 117S MTBO is 1,000 hours with a full-life span of 4,000 hours.