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I was showing my son this photo lately, I took of a Holden car I used on loan when I worked for AVIS rentals way back in 1976
Nothing unusual in that itself, except he said, looks good for a "classic" car. I replied that it was not a classic car then, just another rental. As the years have passed and they do so quickly these days, everything I used to work on is regarded as almost a museum piece.
I was watching this video this morning of a BA146, but what made me "smile" was watching the flaps go up and down. I remember at Ansett we had to fit them to one of the aircraft, none of us had done it before, so it was, you might say a "learning" curve. One problem was, none of us had a company approval to operate the forklift with the sling to fit them. I started up the forklift tried things out very gently, then away we went and within a couple of hours we had the flaps fitted and rigged.
That video also reminded of being being asked to assist a person on our shift to rig the "Aileron" control system. The person I was asked to help, like me, had not done it before. I asked, have you got it figured out, he replied after spending two hours reading up that he had.
I said I need 20 minutes to read up also. He was a bit inpatient, but afterwards, I said, so how were you going to do it?, "no" not that way I explained, but "this way", just watch old "Uncle Haggis" that's me, as the book does not tell you the full story of adjustment effecting other parts of the system I said.
Reluctantly he followed me closely, in the end all the degrees for travel and tensions were spot on Afternoon tea break he came up to me and said, you are not bad for an "old bugger" ha ha. I replied to that over the years you do learn something
The aircraft later went for its test flight and the later pilot report on the flight controls was good
My thinking has always been, that no matter what the job is, you are in you are never through "learning", the day you think that, you will come unstuck and that goes for any age including me....ah! memories
lots of them
Only photo I took during my time with Ansett NZ.
Nothing unusual in that itself, except he said, looks good for a "classic" car. I replied that it was not a classic car then, just another rental. As the years have passed and they do so quickly these days, everything I used to work on is regarded as almost a museum piece.I was watching this video this morning of a BA146, but what made me "smile" was watching the flaps go up and down. I remember at Ansett we had to fit them to one of the aircraft, none of us had done it before, so it was, you might say a "learning" curve. One problem was, none of us had a company approval to operate the forklift with the sling to fit them. I started up the forklift tried things out very gently, then away we went and within a couple of hours we had the flaps fitted and rigged.
That video also reminded of being being asked to assist a person on our shift to rig the "Aileron" control system. The person I was asked to help, like me, had not done it before. I asked, have you got it figured out, he replied after spending two hours reading up that he had.I said I need 20 minutes to read up also. He was a bit inpatient, but afterwards, I said, so how were you going to do it?, "no" not that way I explained, but "this way", just watch old "Uncle Haggis" that's me, as the book does not tell you the full story of adjustment effecting other parts of the system I said.
Reluctantly
he followed me closely, in the end all the degrees for travel and tensions were spot on Afternoon tea break he came up to me and said, you are not bad for an "old bugger" ha ha. I replied to that over the years you do learn something The aircraft later went for its test flight and the later pilot report on the flight controls was goodMy thinking has always been, that no matter what the job is, you are in you are never through "learning", the day you think that, you will come unstuck and that goes for any age including me....ah! memories
lots of them Only photo I took during my time with Ansett NZ.
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