Are They Pirates Or Idiots?
We move into the nicest house within 30,000 square miles, Janice names a baby, and we go on a fishing trip and hook a French sailboat.
Airplane Mechanics
These are posts that mention me (or somebody else) working on or complaining about an airplane.
Visiting The Green Hangars On A Tuesday Afternoon
This is a post about how the work in three ordinary looking hangars on an unassuming county airport is helping to change the world.
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.
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.
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.
Our First Tropical Christmas
Sweating while caroling and other strange ways to spend 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.
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.
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.
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.
Dissolving Steel With Alum Powder
Apparently watchmakers came up with this method to dissolve screws out of brass.
Video: The Bearhawk Project
That time we completely disassembled a Bearhawk, sandblasted the frame, and rebuilt it from the ground up.