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| 04.01.2004 |
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Motivating Mechanics, Part 2
In the February issue, we discussed intrinsic (internal) and extrinsic (external) motivation and the benefits of each. This time, let's discuss the measurement of motivational levels, how to determine them, and what they mean. One of the concepts introduced...
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| 03.01.2004 |
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Industry Focus: Light Aircraft MRO:
Wiring Inspections Are Money-Making Opportunity Most repair station operators have to agree that it would be nice to find a few extra thousand dollars of workorders regularly. Yet, according to a discussion held at the Aircraft Electronics Association...
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| 03.01.2004 |
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Industry Focus: Workplace/Training:
Fielding a PAMA Olympics Team Perhaps your organization has entertained the idea of competing in the PAMA Aviation Maintenance Olympics but was somewhat intimidated by the process of selecting and preparing a team. The competition is a series of events...
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| 01.01.2004 |
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Marketing for Maintenance Businesses: 5 Ways to Save and Prosper
Marketing and new business development can be strange and confusing to the owner of an aviation maintenance shop. While owners usually have strong technical backgrounds, the fundamentals of marketing are not typically addressed in training� programs for...
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| 12.01.2003 |
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My Story
This story was originally published in Collier’s magazine December 25, 1948 and is reprinted here with the permission of the Charles E. Taylor family. Taylor and Ball wrote this story in 1948. It was a hot June night in Dayton. It must have been a...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Cutter Aviation: 75 years of Quality Service
A focus on quality and integrity has served Cutter Aviation and its customers well for 75 years. Cutter Aviation has two reasons to celebrate in 2003. First, along with the rest of us in the aviation world, they will mark the first century of controlled...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Fighting Fire with Neptune Maintenance
Neptune Aviation Services keeps an aging fleet of Lockheeds flying safely and reliably so they can fly another day in the endless fight against forest fires. Over the years, aviation maintenance professionals certainly see change. For example, Juan Trippe...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Jetstars Survive with Aircraft Support
Aircraft Support Group is helping keep the Jetstar, a venerable first-generation business jet, alive and well, by providing parts and services to support operators well into the future. Legend has it, as most legends tend to do, that aeronautical design...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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The Mineral Oil Myth
Aircraft piston engines break-in just fine on ashless dispersant oil, so why do engine manufacturers still require break-in using straight mineral, non-ashless dispersant oil? There is a pervasive myth in the aviation piston-engine world: the myth claims that...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Keeping Insurance Rates in Check
If your shop is struggling to pay ever-increasing insurance premiums, then you are not alone. Skyrocketing rates are an epidemic causing many small facilities to shut down and large shops to cut coverage to a bare minimum. AvDyne AeroServices in Baltimore...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Rebirth of an Old Jet
Garrett Aviation's FJ44 Eagle conversion to the Cessna 500 & 501 fleet adds awesome performance, thanks to new engines and extensive structural modifications. Like an aging beauty who goes to her favorite surgeon in hopes of fighting time, the matriarch...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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The Quintessential Kerchenfaut
Brilliance is an intense brightness, a sharp gleam of reflection from a brighter source. In the confines of an enormous hangar, an unmistakable artisan draws no attention to himself save by reputation alone. Workmanship performed over the course of decades...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Vending Machines Deliver Parts, Not Food
Vending machines are quickly becoming a vital element in MRO parts- and tool-management programs. The reason: when integrated into a bar code tracking system, vending machines can help maintenance organizations reduce inventory, improve technician...
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| 09.01.2003 |
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So Long, Starship
Raytheon's plan to destroy the entire fleet of Starships seals the fate of the ground-breaking composite turboprop, or does it? Raytheon Aircraft's surprise announcement that it is sending its Starship literally to the shredders, thus ending the type's...
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| 09.01.2003 |
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Maintenance in the United Kingdom
The maintenance industry in the United Kingdom is experiencing tough times, as in the rest of the world. To survive, not all companies use the same recipe. Some concentrate on their core business. Others prefer to keep a broad range of service offerings...
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| 09.01.2003 |
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NTSB Holds Final Emery DC-8 Crash Hearing
On August 5, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board held its final hearing on the Emery Worldwide Airlines DC-8 crash, which happened February 16, 2000 near Sacramento, Calfornia. Probable cause of the accident, according to the NTSB...
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| 07.01.2003 |
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2003 Salary Survey results
The number crunching is complete for Aviation Maintenance’s 2003 annual salary survey of aviation maintenance professionals, and we have a somewhat surprising picture this time. The survey indicates an overall average salary of $60,900 ($29.28 per...
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| 06.01.2003 |
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Elliott Aviation’s Complete Completion Center
With the opening of its state-of-the-art completion center, Elliott Aviation has achieved its goal of becoming a one-stop solution for its growing list of business aviation customers. If you had commissioned the late Norman Rockwell to paint a picture of a...
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| 05.01.2003 |
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Cramped, Tedious, and Safe
A focus on finding and training the right people for the work has helped AOG take a bite out of the fuel tank repair market. If you wanted to set yourself apart in a rather small, very specialized market, what would you do? Well, if you were the brains behind...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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Medical Corner: Smallpox Defenders
Smallpox is a disease that, in its natural form, has been eliminated from the world through the use of vaccine that made most of us immune. Without a population to infect, the disease stopped occurring in nature. Now the U.S. government warns that this dread...
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