This week’s “cover” story in our GSW e-newsletter recaps our three Ground Support Leaders of the Year we recognized last week at AviationPros LIVE, March 13-14, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
We honored Tronair, Travis Blair and Bill Biermann, as our Product Leader, Team Leader, and Lifetime Achievement winners, respectively. And Ground Support Worldwide readers can also read more about each in cover stories to be published in the next three issues of the magazine beginning with the April edition.
But let’s also recognize all the techs who took part in last week’s AMT Society Maintenance Skills Competition. We were able to provide live webcasting of the events throughout the show, plus sponsor Snap-On Industrial also caught the interest of the local FOX news channel to come out and do a live report.
Finally, we tweeted highlights of the competition and received many responses posted to AviationPros.com, including:
- “What a fantastic representation of our profession!! I wish that EVERY person who has EVER flown an airplane and not given a second thought to what goes into maintaining it could see this competition.”
- “Gentlemen, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for representing WestJet in the 2013 AMT Skills Competition. I truly hope you all enjoy this experience, have fun and create new friendships / contacts with your fellow participants.”
Check out #AMTS2013MSC for more congrats.
Finally, we took the picture included with this blog in memory of Tom Hendershot, who passed away just weeks before the competition. As the crowd gathered for an official shot, they shouted “Tom Hendershot” in his honor.
