{"id":109691,"date":"2024-08-18T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/military-aircraft-operational-readiness-extreme-climates\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:00:12","slug":"how-do-military-aircraft-maintain-operational-readiness-in-extreme-climates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=109691","title":{"rendered":"How Do Military Aircraft Maintain Operational Readiness In Extreme Climates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            As I&#8217;ve mentioned in several previous articles as well as my <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/author\/christian-orr\/\">Simple Flying author bio page<\/a>, the                                     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60642\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-52\/\"  >B-52 Stratofortress<\/a><\/span>                                         (AKA the &#8220;BUFF&#8221;) is my all-time favorite warplane, so it was a joy to be able to watch the BUFFs take off and fly when I was a young enlisted airman a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minot.af.mil\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >t Minot AFB<\/a>, North Dakota. Thing is, for those of you not familiar with that geographical region of the United States, North Dakota and the surrounding so-called &#8220;Northern Tier&#8221; states get really, really freakin&#8217; cold during the winter months. &#8220;Why not Minot? Freezin&#8217;s the reason,&#8221; goes the cynical joke.                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme climates can be just as deadly to military aircraft can be as deadly to military aircraft as enemy fire. How do maintainers keep &#8217;em flying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2102,397,12667,12668,11721],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-maintenance","category-analysis","category-climate","category-cold-temperatures","category-maintenance-problems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109692,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109691\/revisions\/109692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}