Stig Shift #32 (Aircraft Maintenance Adventures)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome back everyone, it’s a pleasure to have you all here. My deepest gratitude for all you wonderful people that sit and watch and support this adventure with me.
It was a pretty easy weekend for me so not much to show in regards of excitement. But I try to fill in information where I can.
If you see something I said incorrectly please don’t hesitate to say something to connect me. I always encourage knowledge, because i learn from you as well.
Thank you all for watching and I’ll see you on the next journey. Cheers 🤙
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One of the best tips I ever learned as a Flight Attendant was from the Mechanics. "Never touch the dusty buttons!"
🤣🤣 ohh ya. Unfortunately, we as maintenance have to touch it. Thank goodness for gloves. 🧤
@@StigAviationhey stig. If you were a pilot. What would you prefer flying. And spending your day in. A 737 or a320. Also would you prefer to use a yoke or the side stick
@@markjackson5333a320 as a pilot lots of room and very nice plane
Never worry about boring us Stig. We are here because we are all plane nerds and this always makes our day.
Thank you for being here and enjoying the adventures
The blue/brown oil controversy, is just like that black/blue dress controversy 😃!! It definitely looks blue when you are pumping it in, but brown with a thin blue layer in the cup.
Excellent tour of that abandoned hangar! You could just smell the history of that place. Epic!
I was gonna say that exact same thing, I completely forgot to mention the smell of the facility.
Stig I don’t care how mundane these videos are, we love them irregardless. Thursday has quickly become one of my favorite days of the week!
Thank you so much. I appreciate you watching
Same pinch
Stig, never fear that these videos are mundane. We just love them, showing just what it is like behind the scenes. I've yet to be bored!!
I’m glad you are enjoying it all. I appreciate you being here.
Stig you’ve done it again!! You flooded me with a rush of great memories from my time as an A&P with Continental Airlines at LAX 1977-1982. I was DC-10 line/ramp and hanger maintenance in the EXACT huge hangers you visited and videoed. I was taxi and engine run qualified on the “Big Ten”Damn Stig--whew-pushing 50 years ago, seemed like yesterday🫣🫣. The large hanger was for the DC-10’s -we could get two inside at a time for all A, B, C checks, APU work, any and all maintenance inside and out, engine changes, landing gear work (in fact the set up for landing gear swings was putting HUGE jacks under the wings, nose and tail-and then the FLOORS under the nose and main gear actually were lowered!!). Your video in the large hanger even shows the remnants of huge overhead people cranes we had that could go completely around and up and down and over every inch of the DC-10’s in the hanger. You also showed the supervisors office where we went to get work orders and return signed off paperwork-and make copies of the maintenance procedures on a microfilm machine!!! No computers, no smart phones, no electronics-just copy machines and typewriters!!!!
The ramp and apron area around the hanger was used also for maintenance not needing a hanger-like tire and brake changes, pre-flight inspections-and of course post maintenance engine runs!!
The smaller low bay hangers on the side were used for maintenance on all the Continental’s fleet of Boeing B-727 jets.
Your inside video I was looking at showed all the areas I walked thru a million times-the supply stores, engine shop, metal shop, our break rooms, landing gear shop, avionics shops, hydraulic shops--holy Moses what memories!!
Thanks Stig--it was a great time on my life as a young man in my 30’s. Then the government airline deregulation act hit, and the unions started their s-t, and then one of the greatest airlines in the world went bankrupt and I lost the best job I ever had. Was off work for over 10 months-no airlines were hiring😢. So I jumped from the boiling pot of the airlines and into the fire of the oil and gas industry and retired after 35 years of that seven years ago.
I still have the greatest memories of Continental and my work on what I always loved-the DC-10!!
Thanks for sharing this-you have once again made my day-heck--made my week!!!
Stay safe Stig, so I can vicariously re-live the “good ol’ days” of yesteryears of now only memories😌😌💪🏻
this is awesome. must be crazy seeing it all these years later lying dormant.
Absolutely amazing, thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this with me. I’m glad it brought back fond memories.
Well done again. In reference to ADF, originally ADF was tuned to commercial radio stations as well as NDB’s, that is why radio stations station identifications that are regularly announced so that pilots could match the station to the location on their navigation charts. In most countries the form and repeat rate of announcements is legislated. In regard to tyre blowouts, Qantas 747-238’s in the early 80’s were blowing tyres in HNL. Research found that the aircraft were at or close to max takeoff weight and the average taxi distance at HNL was 27 km therefore putting lots of heat into the tyres especially the body gear tyres. The fix was to change the tyres from 30 ply to 32 ply which fixed the problem. Fun for maintenance during the changeover aw we had to keep 32 ply’s on the body gear and use up the 30 ply’s on the wing gear and nose gear. Enough history for today, thanks.
Thank you as always for the incredible education sir. Always a pleasure to learn from you.
For people in SoCal, I just learned from my optometrist, while I was telling her about my job designing avionics boxes for jetliners at Teledyne Controls, that there's a place in Anaheim called Flightdeck that has a Boeing 737 flight simulator that's open to the public to rent along with guidance from a flight instructor. $109 for 30 minutes, $209 for 60 minutes, or $309 for 90 minutes. I'm definitely going to go for the 90 minute experience some time next month and "fly the B-737 gate-to-gate" from LAX to San Francisco. Apparently they're the only place in the world with a real jetliner simulator open to the public.
That's a great tip!
Thanks good to know.
I have heard about that place as well, I need to take a visit too.
We olso have one in Italy. It's a 737 NG full motion dynamic simulator. It is located near Bergamo's airport (the main Ryanair hub in Italy). It's the same simulator used by professional pilots for their assessment preparation and MCC, CRM, SMS courses. It is olso open to the public. 370€ for 120 min of fun with the flight instructor at your side and there are sits at your back for your friends. The coolest thing.... If you ask, the flight instructor can simulate for you emergency situations (for example.. engine failure past v1) and show you how handle and ricover the aircraft.
That's what I was seeking . My cousin who worked forTw❤A . Asked me about a simulator for public.
I remember back in1984/85 I interviewed with Continental Airlines for a job in the engine shop and I was accepted but I didn’t want to cross a picket line because the union was on strike. I had just got out of the USAF after six years and I was working at an old aircraft engine overhaul facility called Stewart Davis Inc. rebuilding large radial engines so I really wasn’t that disappointed I loved radials, but I did miss the money in the end. I lucked out and got hired on at McDonnell Douglas in December 1985 I watch your videos Stig because you share the same passion that I did. I thought that was a lost cause when I retired you keep my spirits up and you keep me informed on the newer technology and for that I thank you.
Stig is great. If you shared his energy I bet everyone enjoyed working with you.
@@thereissomecoolstuffI agree
Remy, you did the right thing. I’m glad you did not cross that picket line, you know how this works in the industry. Nobody likes a scab. I appreciate you being here my friend.
@@StigAviationwhen the tail wags the dog, and the prison is run by the prisoners--your union just destroyed your airline, so don’t play it off to scabs-the unions got what they created-‘Nuf said😢
Learning so much which literally does nothing for me other than filling my brain with information I don’t need, and it’s pushing out information I don’t need. Still I love it , thank you for sharing your content!
The 777 not only has an amazing sound, but such a beautiful and distinctive look to it in my opinion.
Love that you share your adventures with us. There is nothing mundane about your videos. Even if it is a quiet shift for you, it is pure excitement for people like me!
I am so happy you enjoyed it Jon, thank you for being here and watching
I think the thing with the oil is how it reflects light. When you were topping off the plane it looked blue in that clip. When you filled the cup it looked brown *except* right on the surface where it looks blue. I suspect it's the same reason you see a rainbow on the road after it rains where there's oil. Could also be the camera too.
I think you’re right, and since it’s a petroleum product, that’s why it has that coloration
One more thing after finishing the video. I think the media gets so fixated on commercial aviation incidents is because they are so rare now. I can remember as a kid even back in the 80s there were sadly a couple crashes a year in the US including a rather famous United one in my hometown. Now it's a couple a decade and you're absolutely right about the trip to and from the airport being the most dangerous part of air travel.
Maybe you even went through a lot of growing pains in the past, especially back in the 80s. But as you said, it’s so much safer now.
The airplanes flying by when you are in the Continental hangar is some pure ASMR gold
I’m glad I kept the audio as I walked through. I wanted people to experience it.
@@StigAviation You nailed it ! We are all gonna have nightmares of that pipe now :)
Listening to the foreign language announcements reminded me of the early 80s when I worked in Saudi Arabia. Back then PanAm had the contract to train Saudi national pilots, it was always comforting when the cockpit chat was in a 'Chuck Norris' accent rather than.....
😅 I bet that was interesting
STIIIIIG! AIRPLANES!! Tonight is a good night.
Enjoy 🤙
the optical illusion of the engine blades looking like they've stopped spinning (even though they very much still are) blows my mind every time....constant reminder of how important the white spiral in the middle is lol
Strobe effect like a car strobe in the old days has to do with the frequency or wave length of the sunlight. All light has a specific frequency. As 6 becomes 12 on the spinner is the rotation being doubled or tripled of the wavelength or actually halved or quartered (harmonic). Poor choice of words but I tried!
I find it fascinating as well, standing there, watching it, it’s a mesmerizing feeling
After the Air France Concord incident with FOD caused explosion that caused the loss of life, I for one feel safer with the aircraft redundancy that prevents future events. Thank the almighty that the recent events haven’t resulted in loss of life. Great video Stig keep up your great work and stay safe.
Thank you so much for being here and watching. I appreciate you
I had a bad day. Until now. Thank you Stig. :)
Isn’t it true. This old airplane mechanic that loves his job makes me feel so much better.
I’m happy this video made your day better.
Love that GE90-115B startup sequence. The funny thing is that it sounds almost IDENTICAL to the GE F404 and F414 in the hornet / super hornet fighters. There is nothing like being at an airshow and hearing the Navy demo teams all fire up at once (adversary team, refueling demo, hornet demo, etc - perks of the good Naval Air Station shows!) plus of course the Blue Angels. I always watch the turkey feathers to see when they’ve completed their startup sequence
Definitely one of my favorite sounds, it’s an absolute pleasure listening to it on the ground
@@StigAviation I’d love to know the technical reasons for the reverberations and low frequency sounds after ignition, is it the VSVs moving around? Fuel flow changing? 🤷🏻♂️
@@StigAviation actually that might make for a decent question - what is the technical startup sequence inside the engine? As far as the GE90 sounds and that low freq humm is concerned. I know that’s more for the specialist guys in the engine shops - but I’m sure you could pick their brains and enlighten us a bit. 😈
Combination camera lens, grey background of the inlet tank and tint of blue (probably an additive) make it look blue on our end.
We can also assume that it is a petroleum product, so a tint of blue could be there.
I remember going through those hangers when continental was in full swing decades ago. .even got an hour in their DC-10 sim across the street . friends dad worked there., that tour through there led me to a career in Military Aircraft Maintenance and learning to fly
Yup. You know your stuff. The back side of the facility had full simulators for flight training. Continental was at the top of its game back then.
Man you were not kidding 757 high power ground runs😂. After you mentioned it I had to watch some TH-cam vids of them, and wow those people can’t keep the cameras still lol
I’m telling you Andy, it’s impossible. That thing shakes so violently. You can barely focus on anything. 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you stig for so much effort. It was lovely to watch your videos. It just 👍.
Thank you so much for watching
Stig, it would be appreciated if you could show more about the vehicles operating in the airport like the baggage handler tug, fuel tanker. Sorry , I don't know their actual names.
I’ll try to include some of that in the future episodes
There are times when you move the cup with oil, it did look blue. Camera lenses and shutters do strange things to to videos.
You're passion for your career continues to show through. Thank you for everything you are doing to keep everyone safe.
😎🇨🇦🙏
Thank you so much James, I appreciate you always for watching
Boeing 777 and 787 are amazing pieces of engineering.
Indeed they are. Beautiful works of art
My favorite non-pilot TH-camr had posted again. Great content Stig, I love watching your videos and seeing what being an airline mechanic is like.
It’s a pleasure to have you here and I’m happy you enjoyed it
Thanks again stig. Love watching and learning from such a dedicated and enthusiastic practitioner. Having had the pleasure of an indepth tour around one of our local helicopter operators I have even more appreciation of how safe flying is thanks to people like you
Thank you so much for being here and watching John, i’m glad you’re enjoying it and appreciating it
GE90 on start up gives me goosebumps with that howling sound and the "MOOOOOO". I have been on Air New Zealand's 777-300's 3 times and each time when the engines made that "Moooing" sound, you could feel and hear the vibration which would cause the perspex to hum. You should have seen me Stig I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.😄
I’m the exact same way, especially standing outside listening to It is a whole different experience.
Automatic Direction Finder is a simple system. You enter the frequency for a ground station and the display shows if you are going towards or away from the ground station, it's being phased out and isn't used anymore. If you ever see a 747 cargo plane with the nose open for loading / unloading it would be great to show your viewers, I fly them and it's always interesting. Just landed in Anchorage after a flight from Hong Kong and saw your video waiting.
I’ve always heard the 757 was overpowered, but that story really puts it in perspective. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
Chalks in, Brakes set and she'll still go if you aren't careful!
It will absolutely go, I have seen it jump the chocks as well 😂
Just accepted an A&P position with American. Going through pre-employment paperwork now. Can't wait to be on the American team.
Congratulations Nick. Welcome to the fAAmily 🤙
Another great one Stig as always. Happy Flight Attendant Safety Professionals' Day [19th July] to anyone in that industry reading this and thank you for keeping us all safe in the air. They have a huge responsibility up there providing urgent healthcare, security and safety as well as just keeping us comfortable, fed and watered.
They absolutely do. Flight attendants are pretty much jack of all trades nowadays. Rescue workers, EMTs , fire fighters and cops. Flight public lately have become very outrageous.
0:03 “grab your popcorn settle up…” *proceeds to go and make popcorn* (yes literally 😂😂😂)
😅 hope you enjoyed the show 🤙
@@StigAviation this is the best show ever on TH-cam 😂
That's gotta be the best job to do every day. What a lucky man. GOD BLESS YOU
I absolutely love this job
im a simple man. i see new stig shift i press play
And I appreciate you for that. 🤙
Stig! We’ve never been introduced to your cats! They’re in your profile picture, therefore, they are a part of this channel! I promise I won’t twist the foot air or windshield air knobs anymore. 😅
Ahh my beautiful fur babies. I’ll show them off one day.
That's seriously cool. In the cup, that oil is as brown as brown can be but it honestly looks blue in the filler port... More Stig sorcerery I fear...
The oil itself looks brown but the oil surface does look a bit blue to me. Might be an optical illusion caused by the camera? I've seen similar effects looking through a polarized lens.
Yes, I noticed that, too. It had a blue tint to it at the surface even when looking at the side of the cup, almost like it had two layers. I'd guess it's something along the lines of refraction and viscosity creating the effect.
It could be because it’s a petroleum product, just like you see that rainbow effect if it’s spilled on the floor.
Good stuff Stig!!!
Thank you Frank I Appreciate you being here and watching.
1:03:17 I just had a "Duh!" moment. I sometimes wondered how the tug operators could see behind them. I didn't realize that their seats swivelled 180 degrees! I told you it was a duh moment 😂
Thank you Stig, for another fun, educational, and beautiful video 👍 👍
No worries, I’m glad you enjoyed the video though
Hold all calls…it’s STIG TIME!👍👍
Let go 🤙🤙🤙
Thank you, Stig, for great video, just a kindly reminder about aircraft weight distribution we chat about it before on comments, whenever you have time. I love your work!!!!
You mean you want me to talk about CG ?
@@StigAviation Please Sir if you could, I can't think of anyone with better illustration than you, we are getting educated here. You make aviation fun and informative. Blessings!
You’re amazing Stig , how you keep pumping out these videos. Love every one. Watching from England. Keep em coming.👍
Many thanks Phil. I appreciate you spending time and watching.
Ok, the TWA Heritage plane with the speedstripes ... that's very very well done.
Many thanks! It’s one of my favorites as well
Yesterday we came home from our trip, we flew out of Las Vegas on one of your guys’s A321s, as always, an amazing and super smooth plane, and we had an absolute ROCKET of a takeoff!
We got to DFW where we were connecting home to CMH, we got on one of your guys’s 737-800s where we sat for a while before having to change aircraft, I asked to see the flight deck on the way out and when I was in there, I figured out the problem was low hydraulic pressure. Appreciate you guys putting safety first and not putting that bird in the air! Safety should always be put #1 even if it causes a delay, which some other companies _sometimes_ don’t do.
My brother was sitting on the left side and said they were “taking off the bottom of the wing and pulling out pipes” which I wish I could’ve seen, that would’ve been cool.
I’m glad they caught the hydraulic leak, and yes, maintenance will never allow an unsafe aircraft to fly. I’m glad you guys are safe and I’m glad you made the trip.
As you're going thru that (now abandoned) Continental hangar, I wonder if they'll consider selling off things like those gantry cranes or even just the hoist portions of those, or if those are going to be set aside and used in a new hangar.
One of those hoists would be massively overkill for me who only works on cars and pickup trucks most of the time, but I can imagine a shop that works on semi trucks or locomotives would find a lot of use out of them, if they're serviceable.
EDIT: About the only thing I know about re-chroming is that it involves chemicals that will give you cancer VERY quickly, if they don't just give you heavy metal poisoning first. Really nasty stuff, there's a reason we ship all that stuff out to China now (Pretty sure that despite the durability benefits of hard chrome plating, you can't really do it economically in the US anymore due to environmental regulations).
I did hear the noises from the pipes, and to be honest it didn't really creep me out that much.
You know what would absolutely terrify me in a place like that? Complete and utter silence. The fact that the lights are buzzing is comforting, it tells me that the building is, in most of the important aspects, still alive.
If it's silent, or all you hear is creaking metal, that means the power's dead. No power means it's impossible for it to contain any conditioned spaces inside it, and if you don't have any conditioned spaces inside it, you get surprisingly rapid onset of degredation of things like structure, plumbing, wiring being stolen by copper thieves, etc.
If the power's on, none of that has had a chance to happen yet.
The cranes and hoists at auction $$$$$!!
@@jeffcurtis5460
Yeah, expensive I know, but the people building the new hangars are probably in the market for EXTREMELY similar equipment.
I’m sure they’ll eventually sell majority of the hoist equipment at one point or another. I’m glad you enjoyed the tour.
Yay!! Here waiting for an event to start at work and Stig posts his video!! Yay!!! Time to watch some Stig shift!!
I hope you enjoyed it, thank you so much for always being here
@@StigAviation you’re welcome but more like Thank you for taking us on these adventures every week! I love it!
Stig because of you at 35 years old I have finally decided to go to A&P school. Thank you!!
That’s a perfect age, matter fact, I’ll give you a good example, last week I met a gentleman who is in his 50s, and he’s about to graduate the school. Goes to show it’s never too late.
Haha im catching up with all the videos...i dont want to add to the blue/brown controversy...but i see Green on it....😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅Grettings Colleague...🤘🤘🤘
@@stanleyvasquez7110 wait till you see the latest video on hydraulic fluid purple 😂
Hey Stig! I was wondering if you briefed the pilots before each flight and what that might look like?! thanks again for the amazing aviation content and i’m jealous of your anti-ice button lol
It’s not every flight that I get to brief the pilots, but whenever I do get a chance, I make sure to let them know that they have a good aircraft and that I’ll be downstairs if they need any thing fixed. I always have a good conversation with them.
Love the kicking feet out the cargo at 1:20! Like a kid at the playground :) you’re living the dream
I’m just a big kid with tools and airplanes for toys 😅
34:41 way cool tour. Thank you for everything you do.
My pleasure. Thank you for watching
That "Tap Tap" on the Throttles on a every plane is just the cherry of the cake :D
My old habits 😅
@@StigAviation Love it.
OMG this is strange,just finished my shift here in canada, im a structural technician, work at the base, got called to the ramp to investigate a dent, left the calm hanger to the absolute craziness of the ramp. Love your channel
Yup. Sounds about right. Line maintenance is organized chaos 😅
For some reason your videos make me happy. Maybe it’s your positive attitude.
I’m glad they make you smile 😊
ADF (Automatic Direction Finder). Pilots use ADF’s with different approaches. ADF’s use AM frequencies. Stig, you know that AM is hardly used anymore. Same with ADF’s. It is a needle in the cockpit that is constantly pointing at the ground (ADF Station). They are being phased out today. Though older aircraft will still have ADF equipment in them. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if ADF’s were inopped in aircraft.
Thank you so much for this wonderful information, I appreciate you Nick
Love the atc
Glad you enjoyed it
Never miss a Stig shift......Always great video as always....real life A&P line work.....Thank you!!!
Thank you so much Allan
To the sunrise at the sunset, everyrhing you show is incredible.
At the beging of the video, (7mn.36s),i see something strange in the outside gear of the 737..it's look a White spot. Maybe is a trace of paint?
And l have a nother question,
Did you use the same oil to refuel every type of engine?
To conclude, encore une excellente vidéo Monsieur Stig!
The white that you saw was on the tire, it was a piece of paper that got stuck on it. And yes, we use the same type of oil on all of our engines, it’s for standardization so we don’t cross contaminate.
@@StigAviation thank you for your answer
Stig, it was so awesome that you did that hanger walk through. I was trying to imagine what part of the big facility where my dad worked. I had some memories come back. This was a very special video. Same as cargo, Stig never disappoints!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you James
24:40 I love this view under the 777, it looks so sleek and mean, reminds me of the SR-71 Blackbird . Love this view!
It’s a beautiful and majestic aircraft.
haha that oil color is so interesting... it looked blue when you were topping up the engine but brown in the cup, although itbhad a blue layer at the top!
thanks Stig
Thank you so much for watching
Love how you say Good morning everybody but I always watch your video before going to sleep
Thank you for being here.
yay my favorite time of the week!
I hope you enjoy the show
I love airplanes stories Stig be telling. Keep them coming.
Thank you. I happy you are enjoying it all
I’ve had several brand new tires throw the tread off, different brands and different sizes… I haven’t had any recaps disintegrate on me… But I’m just a rookie with about 2 million miles on my odometer. I also don’t drive commercial anymore, I wanted more family time…
You’re definitely not a rookie my friend, you are a well seasoned veteran.
Another peaceful week, passengers happy, maintenance happy, airliners happy everyone happy
Exactly. Can’t ask for anything better than that
On a Friday Morning TGIF, I’m on my way to work I’m nearly halfway through my AMMT ( Aircraft Maintenance Mechanic Trainee ) journey and what a day to be alive! Gosh I love the GE90 magnificent machine
I hope you have a good shift, thank you so much for watching.
Just curious, when the engine is starting, you get almost two different but one main hit of this really deep sound. What is that sound?
Edit: I wrote a paper about airborne navigation in college, ADF antennae are really interesting. The most simple system is a highly directional antenna that you tune to a frequency, and then you can find the direction of the source by sweeping around with that antenna, and then locking wherever the signal is strongest. A benefit of this is that you can basically use any radio station that you can tune. A smaller version of this sort of device is used to track down pirate radio stations. Old ADF systems used to literally contain a rotable loop antenna (like DC3 old). More modern systems use an array of antennae, by measuring the difference in phase and strength of the signal that each antenna receives (and by knowing their relative position to one another and potentially some other factors such as cable length, attenuation, and impedance, but more importantly relative location of each antenna) we can determine the direction of the source. While these systems are electrically more complex, they have the advantage of being lighter, mechanically more simple, not being as vulnerable to the angle of the aircraft, and they can use simpler omnidirectional antennas. As a final fun fact, you have to be careful using ADF systems at night, as the lower frequencies used by these systems can bounce off the ionosphere, making it possible to falsely pick up a further away station on the same frequency, or to pickup a station beyond the range where the system is accurate.
Source: I am a computer/electrical engineer that does the digital side of radios, among other things
Absolutely beautiful information, thank you so much for taking your time and explaining these intricate details. And regards to answering your question, the sound you’re hearing is the initialization of the starting sequence of the engine. Combustion and spark.
@@StigAviation No problem, happy to share this kind of really interesting information with people who appreciate it. And thanks for your response!
Gotta appreciate the empty hangar tour. 🫶🏼
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you, Stig! I love it when you broadcast from the stream! This
Glad you enjoy it!
You are the best Stig never a dull moment in your videos, the sights and sounds are awesome have a great day my friend 💪💪🤠
Thank you very much Tim, I appreciate you being here and watching
Thanks!
Thank you for your generosity and support.
Greetings from the cargo side. Thanks for the show🤙
Thank you so much for being here, cheers 🤙
Brilliant video as always, uploaded at the perfect time for me to wind down, and watch after my evening shift here in Ireland
Thank you so much for being here Mark, I hope you enjoyed it
That GE90 start was phenomenal. Wish I could add it as my ringtone.
😁I have never enjoyed watching someone change oil over and over again, let alone fixing these metal birds. To a non-aviation enthusiast, your videos seem the same every day, but to us, it's like jumping from planet to planet, star to star,galaxy to galaxy. They are all different, and that's what makes them worth watching. Can't wait for the next adventure❤❤
And don't forget the coffee😊
Thank you so much Ronnie. I’m very happy you’re enjoying all of this adventure.
Never mundane stig,i and other folk look forward to your vlogs ..
Thank you very much
The pause when the announcement started once you closed the door; That caught me right off guard. Thank you for the laughs Stig.
You caught that 😅😂
Im finally earlyyyyyyy
(You might have seen comments from a person named BoeingAviation737 thats my alt account)
Also the top of the oil is blue and the rest is brown or red. your not crazy… YET
Thank you so much for being here Andre.
Your videos are never mundane. Even if it's your every day routine, it is an absolutely joy to be brought along with you!
Thank you so much
i live up the road in Santa Monica and can hear GE90s (20:50) starting on the north side of the field from 6 miles away when the wind is calm. I also fly 757s for the competition, never knew high powered runs were such a stirring event. That'll be a good tidbit to share with colleagues!
It’s even more exciting when your yards away from the GE 90, you can feel the ground shake and the 757 is incredibly powerful, especially when you’re doing a high power run standing still and trying to keep it from moving. Incredible feeling
Thanks for the TWA!!! I asked and you provided! Always watch til the end! Thanks buddy, really appreciate that!
My pleasure 🤙
Hellllll yesssss another shift another hour and change of pure knowledge and aviation bliss. Keep em coming stig
Thank you so much for being here Ronald.
Yessss Stig !!… the Beautiful Bird also speaks in Portuguese ( at 3:50 ) 🤣🤣 thanks my boss ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️
Indeed it does. What a beautiful language and beautiful people.
Some weeks ago i saw one of your Stigshift videos and i was very interested because I started to develop an interest in aircraft maintenance! After watching more videos I now know my future job!
Greetings from Latvia!
Absolutely fantastic, I wish you nothing but success in your future career. Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you again Stig, in this tumultuous world we again see men dedicated to their chosen paths keeping us all safe. Thanks again brother.
It’s my pleasure Paul. Thank you for watching
Stig blessing us with another hour of entertainment. Watching this as I'm packing for the next trip, great stuff as always. Us aviation nuts will never get bored of aircraft
I am very happy you’re enjoying it, and I hope you have a wonderful trip
I feel for the maintenance crews that had hands on that plane they gonna get raked over the coals and inside they gonna be wondering "what if" that's the tough part about the job. Take care Stig
Definitely a lot of responsibility. I’m sure they will be ok tho
Stig AA losing a tire, probably FOD. Still going to fly AA & others. Your competitor losing another wheel, probably procedure not being followed.
Maybe not fly w/them.
The ATC coms for the LAX incident were posted quickly, and the tower took FOD very seriously. The audio of the pilots telling ground where they last saw the tire/wheel was some good theater of the mind.
Love the channel.
I’m just glad they got out safe and no one was hurt. And thank you as always Tod. I appreciate you watching
I've downloaded this episode to my phone so I can watch it during my 90 minute flight tomorrow. The perfect length!
Thank you. Have a good flight Taylor
Based on that tire issue, (which I saw on takeoff on another flight, TPA is my home airport), if you look at the footage right before it blows up, it looks like it is throwing its tread. It was also very warm that morning and the runway was probably pretty warm
Yes, that is also a big major factor. Aircraft have to taxi to the runway and if it’s a hot day, it’s already warming up those tires. So it could’ve been that, a thrown tread.
Hey Stig thank you again for this amazing content. A few weeks from now I'm gonna start college for Aircraft Maintenance Technology. Watching your videos given me some ideas and knowledge. If you have some tips for me feel free to reply! Thank you once again🤙🏻🇵🇭
Wishing you all the best, keep up the good work and the good studies. I’m happy these videos are helping you.
Hahaha loved the voices(PRAMs) special the portuguese 🇵🇹
Me too. I was so surprised and happy to hear it
Another Stig shift just dropped man i love your videos! keep up the work man. Love from the Netherlands!
Many thanks Ruben, sending you greetings from LAX.
Funny you should mention the ramp agent, Stig. That's what I used to do at PDX. I worked for Alaska. It was a good job and really sparked my love for aviation. I ended up moving on to teaching once I got my degree but a part of me will always love it out there!
Also 23:00 It looks blue from the top. If you're looking right down on it, it has a blueish tint
I’m glad you got to experience Aviation, I’m curious you said you’re a teacher now, what do you teach?
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About that oil, the majority of it looks brown, it's true. I might have an idea why people are saying it looks blue tho, and it's not that "is the dress blue or gold" thing.
Look at the area in the cup where the surface level of the oil meets the inside wall of the cup, I see a different color there that does look green or blue.
Maybe the reason it looks blue or green when you're filling the engines is because of some similar effect, when the light passes thru a small thickness of oil, the colors that remain after passing thru make it look somewhere in the blue-green range, but if it passes thru a LARGE thickness of oil, like in the middle of the oil in the cup, the light that remains is brown in color?
Just a guess I have, the optical properties of hydrocarbons can be quite strange at times, especially when you have an interface between oil and another fluid (in this case, air). Most likely something similar to the rainbow effect of water droplets happening, but the angles (and resultant color spread) is all different compared to water because it has a different index of refraction (which is a measure of how strongly it focuses the light when confined to a defined lens shape that is held constant between things you wish to measure the index of refraction of, and compared to a known standard to set a baseline).
My guess would be because it is a petroleum product, just like when oil is on the ground you get the rainbow effect
i flew on a qantaslink 717 to launceston the other day and before boarding, i watched one of the mechanics do a check. your content helped give me an idea of what he was doing and i have so much respect for it. (flight was nice though, the 717 is like a little rocket. we got diverted back to the airport due to a tech issue, which was fun. plane got swapped, we made it to launceston and i subsequently got stranded because the plane we swapped to also had a fault. lucky day for me.)
I’m glad you guys made it out safely, and thank you so much for understanding and being here
Never mundane Stig! These videos are the best and always learning from them! ...but no more walks in empty hangers... that was creepy! :O) Great job!
Thank you so much
Worry not! The airplane doctor is back on duty! Love you Stig!❤️
Thank you so much 🤗
Favourite aviation youtuber ever! I always enjoy watching your videos, keep up the good work! 🔝
Thanks a ton! I appreciate you