Work Team Frees Mechanic Held Hostage By Airplanes
A "Global Response" team traveled from Ohio to perform the rescue using only rivet guns and wrenches.
Airplane Mechanics
These are posts that mention me (or somebody else) working on or complaining about an airplane.
Phantom Potholes & Life Lessons →
Elliot learns to use a drill, Adi learns life lessons, and our new espresso machine keeps our guard up all night.
Papua New Guinea
Simple Solutions Versus Wild Ambition →
Mechanics without pilot licenses are a bit like penguins. We’re basically flightless birds. This is why we don’t care much about the weather. Pilots do.
Potholes
Our First Tropical Christmas →
Sweating while caroling and other strange ways to spend Christmas.
Christmas
Airplane In A Box →
Even the most stoic mechanic will leap around and shout like a spirit-filled Pentecostal if the airplane goes down when it was supposed to go up.
Airplanes
Finally An A&P Mechanic! →
This is the culmination of two and half years of working towards the 4,800 hours of experience needed to take the tests.
Airplane Mechanics
My Written Exams Are Done! →
General aviation is one part Stone Age and one part NASA. Sometimes we're fretting over .005" tolerance and sometimes we're beating things with a hammer and a block of wood.
Airplane Mechanics
Close, But No Baby →
Janice recovers from COVID and almost has a baby. I work on a Porter and get some help changing a tire on a King Air.
Holy Matrimony!
Dissolving Steel With Alum Powder →
Apparently watchmakers came up with this method to dissolve screws out of brass.
Airplane Mechanics
Video: The Bearhawk Project →
That time we completely disassembled a Bearhawk, sandblasted the frame, and rebuilt it from the ground up.
Airplanes
Perspective! →
You begin to realize that all the little things that looked so big to you are actually just a small part of a much bigger picture.
Holy Matrimony!
Trash Cans, Preschool, Engine Overhauls, & Family Vacay →
Instead of compost, we were producing weapons grade mustard gas.
West Virginia
Defective Crayons And A Change Of Plans →
I decided to just be a mechanic. I might as well have leprosy.
Colorblindness
Starting My Apprenticeship At MMS Aviation →
A squawk is the sound a bird makes when something is wrong. It's also the sound a pilot makes when he complains about something.
Airplane Mechanics