Its interesting at least for me,
to watch something like this. Although the person on the flight its nostalgia, and that's really great. The first word that came to my mind was "Corrosion" and lots of it on the 146 Aircraft that Ansett New Zealand used
, they were really bad.
Another joy to watch for me in this video, was the flap operation
. I remember a couple of us had the job of fitting them, as we were all new, it was a learning curve straight from the manual. Anyway as neither of us had a company approval to use a forklift, we decided to give it a go. After trying out the controls of the forklift, oft we went. It took four of us to fit them both, they were large and very heavy, so I had to be "super careful" on the forklift. After about 2 hours we had them fitted and rigged ready for testing. Ansett were a good company to work for I should add. I also was asked to help one of the guys to rig the ailerons.
The person I was helping had spent 4 hours reading up. I also needed to have a quick read also, I said, right, how are you going to do it? he replied. I said "nope" just watch uncle haggis "me" and oft we went. Afternoon break he came to me and said, you are not bad for a old bugger ha ha, well you do learn something over the years ha ha. Well it went on its test flight and the report stated it was perfect
, so there you have it, in life you are never through learning, anyway that's my thoughts anyway
. They were good times and good people to work with.













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