Pic of the Day

[Scott Liggett]

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Joe, if you rob the bank, I'll drive the getaway car. We'll share the Galaxie.

Plan your work, work your plan.

Arent ya going to need that Galaxie as the getaway car?

[Brian Lohnes]

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I was planning on a low profile getaway in Goliath. :D

[joebogey]

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I was planning on a low profile speed getaway in Goliath. :D

There, fixed that for you...

[JOES66FURY]

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I am not allowed to take my camera to work , if I were I would cuz i do some cool shit from time to time... using big tools and big pieces of equipment on big things is something we all can appreciate....

Here is a picture i found that shows what me and my boys did today, 3 times...



when I bore-scope the engines last week (part of their annual inspections) I found some of this (though not to this degree)...What casues this? when a C-130 tries to keep up with a tanker she has to run hard, and running a jet engine hard means running it hot...when you run em' hot...this happens....the fuel atomizers were gunked up pretty good and the flow patterns were off quite a bit so that also plays in (the fuel they get over there SUCKS)

[Brian Lohnes]

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Hey man, I know your job blows goats from time to time, but that's neat right there.

[TheSilverBuick]

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I have to agree with Brian. I loved it when our offices were in the Truckshop, everyday walking through there at least twice a day. Seeing engines and such being pulled or worked on. (Oh how I wanted to take a giant turbo ;D)

[JOES66FURY]

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if anyone ever makes it down to tucson let me know...I will give you the nickle tour...

youre right Brian, more often than not my job does blow ... but days like this remind me of how much I love this job and why I got into it in the first place...and to be honest, my crew reall make it great, I am blessed with 6 good crew members, all willing to work and learn...no attitudes, no stupidity..makes for a great work environment...now if I could just get rid of my 6 bosses....

here is a photo of just the engine, no prop...the big grey thing is a reduction gear box...13:52:1 ....the big round tank up top is a oil tank and the little black box on top is a kind of computer that acts like a crusie controll of sorts...



this is a shot of the other side



here is what it looks like without the nacelle (structure around the engine)




strangely I can not find any pictures of the propeller so you can see some on the neat little widgets that make it work...

[98ciHemi]

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Joe, do you have your A+P license? I always found it funny that the same US govt. that paid Dad to be the crewchief of supersonic fighters for 15+ years say he cannot do much more than change the oil and sparkplugs on our Piper Tomahawk, since he never ended up with an A+P cert.

[JOES66FURY]

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Joe, do you have your A+P license? I always found it funny that the same US govt. that paid Dad to be the crewchief of supersonic fighters for 15+ years say he cannot do much more than change the oil and sparkplugs on our Piper Tomahawk, since he never ended up with an A+P cert.

I dont have my A&P Walt, I had my tickets to test but the guy who signed my paperwork had his license pulled and it made my tickets void..I never went back to get them again because I do not feel like dealing with the FAA, they are worse than the USAF....I never want to work civil aviation...getting your A&P is way more in depth than your dad got as a crew chief of me as an engine specialist...they get into a lot of stuff we dont see...so I took a bunch of aviation classe thru Embry Riddle to get me on speed...but it was so long ago I dont remember anything

There is a new program where I can go get my tickets to test by filliing out some paperwork but like I said, I would never pass the tests...I dont know how to time a magneto or dope a wing...and things like that can come up....

[1970camaroRS]

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[JOES66FURY]

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Cut away engines are bad ass...Rolls Royce had a cut away T-56 when I went there back in 02 for customer service training....

[Scott Liggett]

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That's some neat stuff, Joe. I find it interesting that they use a crane and pull the jet from the top of the nacelle instead of just removing the whole nacelle from the wing and servicing it.

[realsteelfreak]

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Saw this last Sunday and I can't get it outta my head....

Hey that looks like the one I am picking up, but just in much better shape.

[Aircooled]

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Cut away engines are bad ass...Rolls Royce had a cut away T-56 when I went there back in 02 for customer service training....

one T56 cut away coming up:

[CTX-SLPR]

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They still having that weird "horrible smell" in the cockpit and fuel gelling problems on the new Herks?