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The flight crew were fine and pay protected per their contract. There wasn't any action against me from the FAA nor the airline...

The best kind are the ones with the ********* plastic knob like AEAdam shows in his picture. You can get some serious downward/upward...

I use a 1/4 dr for hubcaps when doing wheel/tire assembly changes and running down fasteners on fuel tank access panels before torquing...

Use them almost daily, as our engineering guys figured out long years ago, that power tools driving fasteners into nutplates results in...

I think that A&P mechanics are one of the last cohorts of workers that are still using speed handles regularly.

No, the mechanic in Newark thought the soaking wet APU and inside the tail cone was de-icing fluid. It was a fuel leak. How it did not...

We had a turn flight from Newark come in with the APU on deferral. It shut down when they were de-icing the plane in Newark. I had about...

I did not lock out / tag out a fuel boost pump circuit breaker one night changing a fuel filter on a plane. Filter and bowl off, then it...

Use them all the time...We have spline, 6 and 12 point hardware on the jets and it's handy not to have to change sockets every time...

You just might be onto something here 🤔

I have at least 4 caulking guns. Every time I need one, they are nowhere to be found. I finally got a cardboard box and wrote "caulking...

In aviation, almost everything has a torque spec and when you start getting into flight controls, hydraulic actuators, and power control...