My Work

[Yob]

Hi guys, i though i should share. I am actually a Junior Aircraft maintenance Engineer here is a picture of what i did about 2 weeks ago.

 

Guess what war-bird it is from. Cowling for the front gear bay taken off for oil drain.

 

Elijah

[Weta43]

Spitfire ?

[Strut]

I think its a "Pony" ?

[badger66]

I might be heading off to Africa ..... perhaps in the next 6 to 12 months to totally stripdown & rebuild a spitfire ..... repair it , make bits for it and replace every magnesium rivet with aluminium ones ..... should take a couple years . She was a gate guardian so has a monster hole hacked in her belly from the support used to display it .

 

Should be fun . Ive worked on F4U4 , B-25 , DC-6B , T-26 ..... Spitfire would be nice to add to the CV ..... but a 190 or a 110 would be nicer .

Edited April 25, 2014 by badger66

[Yob]

I might be heading off to Africa ..... perhaps in the next 6 to 12 months to totally stripdown & rebuild a spitfire ..... repair it , make bits for it and replace every magnesium rivet with aluminium ones ..... should take a couple years . She was a gate guardian so has a monster hole hacked in her belly from the support used to display it .

 

Should be fun . Ive worked on F4U4 , B-25 , DC-6B , T-26 ..... Spitfire would be nice to add to the CV ..... but a 190 or a 110 would be nicer .

 

Ohh yes.. My boss you might know him. he worked on a Spit at duxford for a while and a lot of DC-3's.

 

 

 

 

Shot from my boss, i am cleaning flaps for display. By the way it is an SNJ

 

 

 

Me in a Anzac flight of DH: Chipmunks...

[badger66]

Looks like you got a nice job there .

 

I used to work for The Flying Bulls ..... owned by Didier Matachitz who is part owner of Red Bull and owner of the Red Bull F1 team .

 

After I left he got a P-38 .

 

I think the Spitfire I might be doing is a MK.22 , without the Merlin engine .

 

Im mostly a structure eng .

[Yob]

Awesome, I love spits but the late ones from Post MK-IVX bores me a little.

 

Mm We do engines and structial and painting where pretty much a complete place, i am learning engines and structural.

 

Along with Fabric

[badger66]

Never did fabric ..... yet . Kinda like to leave that job for women ..... lol .

 

No seriously ..... I wouldn't mind learning about it . The DC-6B used fabric and this particular aircraft used to be the presidential flight from Marschal Tito of the former Yugoslavia .

 

The Corsair F4U4 was I think ex French Navy .

 

B-25 I know was done by Ezell Aviation , in Breckenridge , Texas ..... as was the P-38 .

Edited April 26, 2014 by badger66

[badger66]

This is some of the stuff Ive worked on while working at The Flying Bulls .

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Red-Bull-(The/Vought-F4U-4-Corsair/2411027/L/&sid=0afb0a1ad53e8ec4fae4260590d4e4e6

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Red-Bull-(The/North-American-B-25J/2346919/L/&sid=0afb0a1ad53e8ec4fae4260590d4e4e6

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Red-Bull-(The/Douglas-DC-6B/1878019/L/&sid=c167a8de246a5013e50edb05695c91e8

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Red-Bull-(The/North-American-T-28B/0410122/L/&sid=47f81b99586a89af99f7f0825fcf66a2

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Red-Bull/SCAN-30-(G-44A/0751906/L/&sid=49f2bc4816471de77bf420383be28558 ..... eem , this was crashed upon landing in some lake . It flipped over and went down upside down and backwards . The pilots survived .

 

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(The-Flying/Bell-TAH-1F-Cobra/1025808/L/&sid=9e900fbd39c9116e03994bb04a84427e

 

I particularly like making ribs and stuff like that from sheet and cooking it up to temper . Then when u see the finished product that fits like an original one nested in position ..... that makes me happy .

Edited April 26, 2014 by badger66

[astrospud]

 

This wouldn't be at Temora, would it?

[realtrance]

My Work

 

I was just reading about the difficulties and excitement of being a maint eng the other day; thank you for doing such challenging and important work!

 

http://www.shmoop.com/careers/aircraft-mechanic/

Edited April 29, 2014 by realtrance

[Yob]

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