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The US Air Force’s 82nd Training Wing and the Raptor industry team opened a state-of-the-art, 120,000-square foot F-22 maintenance training facility at Sheppard AFB, Texas, on 19 October, providing a realistic training environment for future Raptor maintainers. For instructional purposes, engineers have divided the aircraft into seven full-scale, high-fidelity training devices that replicate flight line maintenance conditions and eliminate the need to train on operational aircraft. The devices provide hands-on practice in inspection, operation, removal and installation, system-testing, and fault isolation. The devices range from simple to highly complex, covering as few as fourteen separate tasks to as many as 240 tasks. Boeing served as the design lead on the new facility.
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