The IA renewal season has begun in earnest, and as can be expected, the annual discussion of why we need to do this every year? And as usual, we face the challenge of getting ...
Tungsten Line Weldcraft, a manufacturer of GTAW (TIG) welding torches and accessories, offers an extensive line of tungsten for use on a variety of TIG welding applications. ...
Have you noticed that communicating with your teenagers is vastly different than communicating with your parents? In addition to working with individuals who all have their own...
My company pays me $20 per hour as a technician, yet they charge customers $70 for each hour that I work. Why? If involved in a conversation concerning this topic, this article...
You might think that decisions of the Supreme Court involving condemnation are beyond your concern. Ordinarily, we would care less about such things. However, nothing could be...
Bill O’Brien talks about what keeps us from the goal of universal professional recognition. The definition of professional contains three major parts: education, recognition, ...
An inspection program for a large or multi-turbine powered airplane or turbine-powered rotorcraft will generally consist of the following types of inspections: look-phase inspections...
A phrase familiar to software people goes like this: Garbage in equals garbage out abbreviated as GIGO. This means that if the input data or the software itself was bad (i.e.,...
The vibration spectrum survey can bring quite a bit of seemingly unrelated data into an organized format that you can use as a valuable troubleshooting tool.
So why go back to basics? It boils down to a big problem in maintenance — complacency. Webster’s dictionary defines complacency as satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual...
Magnetos have been around since the early 1900s and have been refined for the last 100 years to give us the reliability we have come to expect from aircraft magnetos. As maintenance...
We chose Noel Wilton as this year’s winner. The photo taken by Gerald Paul New of Noel crouched down inspecting a model airplane was a great shot. Joe Escobar also claims it’s...
Manufacturers and outfitters of rotary wing aircraft face many unique challenges when it comes to selecting and installing avionics. Helicopters, like their fixed wing counterparts...