Actually a jet mech on targets, fighters and "bombers"(F117).
The sense of accomplishment you get from taking a sputtering or inop. engine and making it roar again is the best job in the world!
I tell folks that I would rather be under an engine at mil. power than anywhere else on the flightline. I found that it's usually alot safer!
I had to learn how to service LOX while over in Saudi in '90-'91 and hated it. Highly compressed gas that wants to blow up damn near anything it touches, screw that noise.
I had my first experience with AB's at Shaw working on Blk 40/42/50's. What a rush that was! I was working on a Blk 42 on an open trim pad and the first time I felt the jet kick into burner, I knew that I was in for something special.
Did you ever run a jet in a test cell with the doors closed in full AB? You're looking at the doors about fifteen feet in front of you and you know that if the restraint lets go you're hosed.
Could regale FR all day with acts of accomplishment and buffoonery, but I do have a job to do today, so must keep it short.
Take care!
Cheers,
SZ
Laying between the rails, trimming the beast with that little flexible driver with the hex-head on it? Yeah :)
Also had one come apart on me too, right after I'd closed the doors behind me.
Same here about the job - I'll write more later. Good to find another jet engine mechanic. RedBloodedAmerican on here actually worked for Pratt, the dog.