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May 1, 2004
A&O Composites Tackles Niche Component Market
The leftovers of a Cold War strategic bomber base in the Texas Panhandle town of Amarillo have become quarters fine enough for a company that's becoming increasingly well-known for its expertise in composite structures. Standing outside the 1950s-era hangar...
May 1, 2004
Something New in IA Renewal
Few aspects of aircraft operation generate more discussion, controversy, and outright dispute than piston-engine powerplant management. And with the advent of modern graphic engine-monitoring systems, aviation maintenance technicians find themselves more...
May 1, 2004
Wing Aviation Offering Mx Tech Scholarship
Good help is always hard to find, but a Conroe company says 2004 will be the year it takes steps to assure itself of quality employees in the future. Wing Aviation, which opened an aircraft heavy maintenance operation a year ago at the Montgomery County...
April 1, 2004
Motivating Mechanics, Part 2
In the February issue, we discussed intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external) motivation and the benefits of each. This time, let's discuss the measurement of motivational levels, how to determine them, and what they mean. One of the concepts introduced...
March 1, 2004
Industry Focus: Workplace/Training:
Fielding a PAMA Olympics Team Perhaps your organization has entertained the idea of competing in the PAMA Aviation Maintenance Olympics but was somewhat intimidated by the process of selecting and preparing a team. The competition is a series of events...
December 1, 2003
My Story
This story was originally published in Collier’s magazine December 25, 1948 and is reprinted here with the permission of the Charles E. Taylor family. Taylor and Ball wrote this story in 1948. It was a hot June night in Dayton. It must have been a...
July 1, 2003
2003 Salary Survey results
The number crunching is complete for Aviation Maintenance’s 2003 annual salary survey of aviation maintenance professionals, and we have a somewhat surprising picture this time. The survey indicates an overall average salary of $60,900 ($29.28 per...
June 1, 2003
Rebuilding & Restoring a Corsair
Restoring a vintage WW II airplane from a pile of twisted metal to an airworthy status is a testament to an A&P’s skills and dedication. This is the story of Craig McBurney’s mission to restore and to fly a WW II Corsair. Memories of watching...
April 1, 2003
Angels in the Field
The Blue Angels show off what sailors and marines in the fleet do every day. You just can’t watch a Blue Angels show and not come away excited and maybe just a bit proud. After all, from their signature diamond formation maneuvers, with 18 inches from...
April 1, 2003
Medical Corner: Smallpox Defenders
Smallpox is a disease that, in its natural form, has been eliminated from the world through the use of vaccine that made most of us immune. Without a population to infect, the disease stopped occurring in nature. Now the U.S. government warns that this dread...
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