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jrhume
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Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 1967
In my helicopter company we had a captain assigned as maintenance officer. The lad was convinced he knew everything there was to know about aviation maintenance -- and then some.
A crew working at night replaced an engine on one of our Chinooks. Our hero showed up in the wee hours and decided it would be dandy to test run the new engine, even though the maintenance inspector hadn‘t checked it over yet.
Someone had left a small bolt lying loose in the intake. Just the sort of thing an inspection is designed to catch -- right? An $80,000 engine soon began a return trip to the depot.
We called him Captain Mechanic after that.
Jim
In my helicopter company we had a captain assigned as maintenance officer. The lad was convinced he knew everything there was to know about aviation maintenance -- and then some.
A crew working at night replaced an engine on one of our Chinooks. Our hero showed up in the wee hours and decided it would be dandy to test run the new engine, even though the maintenance inspector hadn‘t checked it over yet.
Someone had left a small bolt lying loose in the intake. Just the sort of thing an inspection is designed to catch -- right? An $80,000 engine soon began a return trip to the depot.
We called him Captain Mechanic after that.
Jim