Maintenance Kaleidoscope

Maintainers from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental shop inspect parts of a C-130 Hercules using a borescope at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. The borescope consists of a miniature video camera on the end of a flexible tube that projects the image on a screen, allowing Airmen to inspect otherwise inaccessible parts of an aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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(Right to left) Airmen 1st Class Alexander Buenviaje and Nathan Judd, both from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental shop, disassemble parts of a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. Yokota maintainers spend their time troubleshooting maintenance issues on the flightline and conducting daily maintenance on the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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Airmen from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electric and environmental shop use a video borescope to inspect inside parts of a C-130 Hercules on the flightline at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. The borescope consists of a miniature video camera on the end of a flexible tube that projects the image on a screen and allows Airmen to inspect deep within equipment, engines and other dark spaces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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(Right to left) Airman 1st Class Alexander Buenviaje and Senior Airman Paul Nguyen, both of the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental shop, use a video borescope to inspect parts of a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. Yokota maintainers spend their time troubleshooting maintenance issues on the flightline and conducting daily maintenance on the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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(Right to left) Airmen 1st Class Alexander Buenviaje and Nathan Judd, both from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental shop,monitor a video borescope view screen to inspect parts of a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. Yokota maintainers spend their time troubleshooting maintenance issues on the flightline and conducting daily maintenance on the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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Maintainers from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental shop inspect parts of a C-130 Hercules using a borescope at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. The borescope consists of a miniature video camera on the end of a flexible tube that projects the image on a screen, allowing Airmen to inspect otherwise inaccessible parts of an aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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Airmen from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electric and environmental shop use a borescope to inspect inside parts of a C-130 at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. The borescope consists of a miniature video camera on the end of a flexible tube that projects the image on a screen, allowing Airmen to inspect deep within equipment, engines and other dark spaces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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Airman 1st Class Alexander Buenviaje, 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environment apprentice, operates a video borescope to inspect inside parts of a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. The borescope, a fiberscope, consists of a miniature video camera on the end of a flexible tube that projects the image on a screen, allowing Airmen to inspect deep within equipment, engines and other dark spaces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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Senior Airman Paul Nguyen, 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environment journeyman, monitors a screen projected from a borescope inside parts of a C-130 Hercules at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. As the borescope traveled through the aircraft parts, Nguyen took screenshots to be later analyzed. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo/Released)

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Maintenance Kaleidoscope

Published April 30, 2014
By Osakabe Yasuo
374th Airlift Wing public affairs

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Maintainers from the 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron electrical and environmental shop inspect parts of a C-130 Hercules using a borescope at Yokota Air Base, Japan, April 28, 2014. The borescope consists of a miniature video camera on the end of a flexible tube that projects the image on a screen, allowing Airmen to inspect otherwise inaccessible parts of an aircraft.