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That is what happened in my 2nd time I was blindsided in a layoff when I worked for America West Airlines. No rumors or nothing like you get with most layoffs.
I got a phone call on a weekend that I was no longer employed I thought it was a friend playing a prank. The swing shift maintenance crew tried to go to work that day and the gates were locked they could not even get to their tool boxes there was quite an uproar in the local news stations about it.
We were in chapter 7 for about 4 years (pay cut, stock freeze) and working our way out of it when they hired a Corporate Henchman Bill Franke to help guide them. They gave him complete control little did they know that he would ultimately fire both the guys who created the airline and hired him it was the ultimate backstabbing technique.
Then he came up with a brilliant idea of outsourcing the heavy maintenance C checks and having a company in the Northwest Tramco do that work.
They forgot to factor in now they had to ferry an empty airplane (twice) pay the crew and all the fuel and costs that go into that also the fact that these Tramco employees were underpaid contract workers that could care less about America West Airlines.
Turned out to be a major mistake and ended up costing a lot more money and they had a lot more maintenance problems and I do believe there was a crash.
Another brilliant move by upper management, that don't have a clue as they don't work in the weeds that I have been through in my career.🙄🤬
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Slight tangent but still related...for a while now the DOD thought that unmanned aircraft would surely be the future. Cheaper to build without human considerations, i.e.; no cockpit, environmental systems, egress, etc. Trouble is...someone has to control that vehicle via some sort of communication or just preprogram it with no form of recall or cancellation. Current technology can't make these platforms "un-jammable". Despite the best efforts of the military and industry to drive down costs and manpower...the manned aircraft lives on.
But after his experimental plane crash in Beverly Hills where he would have died if not pulled out from a GI he became addicted to pain pills and went down hill from there.
They’ve always been on my “if I ever win the lottery... “ list.
As my first A&P instructor said, “oh awesome. Then you’d have the amazing experience of maintaining an aircraft, a boat and a house all it one neat package. Nothing like a 1br apartment that drinks fuel @ 200gph.” 😂😂😂 He hates seaplanes and helicopters with an absolute passion.
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Now consider the publically known limitations of the F-111, like speed. The paint in front of the canopy is good for mach 2. The aircraft cannot do mach 2. As far as you know...
The aircraft landed in the UK.
The nacelle delaminated on one side.
The right horizontal stabilizer lost a significant amount of surface at the extreme station.
The vertical stabilizer lost a significant amount of material at extreme waterline.
Paint bubbled fore of canopy.
You have recieved an exceptional aircraft.
I worked on them for about 5 years even though they had to quit making them.
I spent a lot of time on the guillotine that saved pilots from going in with the aircraft.
It severed the lines between the cockpit/capsule and the fuselage at punch out.
I'm pretty sure the EF, which was just an A model with a shit ton of jamming equipment crammed in it, could bust mach 2. Those hot rod F111F's were a LOT faster. We got to Saudi in Sept and by Christmas there wasn't much paint left on any leading edges.
I know those planes were extremely effective at making bad guys go boom but it took a hell of a lot of work to keep them flying. I worked them for 3 years and we had exactly ONE Code 1 flight (no discrepancies noted after sortie). The DCM shut down the flight line and fed us burgers and beer to celebrate that milestone.
I've heard some old pilots/crew refer to the DC-10 as the "Death Cruiser-10".
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No idea. My job was to repair the tooling to make the parts for it.
I didn't design it, I was just following orders.
It's all good. I just don't know if it ever worked.
I did all I could.
W7 is truly a WWII veteran. This aircraft originally served with the 12th Air Force in the Mediterranean Theater in 1943 and the 9th Air Force in England 1944-1945 as part of the 316th Troop Carrier Group. It was one of the lead aircraft of the first strike of the D-Day invasion on June 6th, 1944 over Ste. Mere Eglise, Normandy. It transported paratroopers for the 82nd Airborne Division as part of Operation NEPTUNE. Flak was very heavy during these missions but this C-47 managed to survive it all.
He was a very humble and gentle Man who raised 5 boys and 1 girl. Jan said he never talked about it.....
This was a serious war machine.
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, named for the North American spider, was the first operational U.S. warplane designed as a night fighter, and the first aircraft designed to use radar.[1][2] The P-61 had a crew of three: pilot, gunner, and radar operator. It was armed with four 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano M2 forward-firing cannon mounted in the lower fuselage, and four .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns mounted in a remote-controlled dorsal gun turret.
Was so glad they did not cancel the program like they have done with so many other great Aircraft.
It's essentially a GIANT machine gun with a plane wrapped around it.
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