This electronic flyer highlights our capabilities and activities in the area of B-52 Maintenance Training. Please sign our guestbook. For additional information, e-mail John D.Micheletti, Southwest Research Institute.

B-52 Maintenance Training

The B-52 aircraft is currently undergoing midlife avionics improvements.

Under contract to the U.S. Air Force B-52 System Program Office (SPO), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)  is upgrading the hardware and software for the B-52 Bomb Navigation System Maintenance Trainers and the Electro-optical Viewing System Maintenance Trainers. The BNSMTs and EVSMTs are employed at Sheppard AFB to provide hands-on maintenance procedures training for the B-52 Offensive Avionics System.

The current BNSMT configuration consists of several aircraft avionics computer systems, displays, control panels, and a Simulation Computer System (SCS). The SCS enables instructor insertion of simulated avionics system faults and provides a limited simulation of the aircraft's Inertial Navigation System. The current SCS is based on a customized 1970s-era DEC PDP-11 computer that is no longer maintainable. SwRI is replacing the existing SCS with a commercial off-the-shelf PC-based system that provides enhanced simulation capabilities, instructor control, and a graphical user interface. At the direction of the B-52 SPO, SwRI is evaluating additional modifications and upgrades to the BNSMT.

The BNSMT provides hands-on avionics mainte-nance procedures training for B-52 ground crews.

In conjunction with the BNSMT modifications, SwRI is also replacing the Modified Advanced Capability Radar configuration in one of the EVSMTs with the Strategic Radar (SR) AN/APQ-166 subsystem. The SR modification includes replacing the Terrain Display Control Panel, Indicator Light Assembly, Simulated Operating Condition Indicator Panel, Trainer Power Switch, Emergency Power Off Switch, and associated panels, wiring harnesses, and connectors

The EVSMT is used to train aircraft maintenance personnel on the B-52 electro-optical viewing system.

This flyer was originally published in November 2000. For more information about B-52 maintenance training, contact John D. Micheletti, Training, Simulation and Performance Improvement, Southwest Research Institute, P.O. Drawer 28510, San Antonio, Texas 78228-0510, Phone (210) 522-3110, Fax (210) 522-2572.

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