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kenlyco
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I know we have a thread on faces,how about places we have worked over the years.You do not have to say were its at ,and it doesn't have to be aviation related,a picture to you may not be interesting but to someone else it may be.if not interested no big deal.Heres some FBO's I worked at, and my truck I use to run around in and my test stand were I have busted plenty of knuckles.
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Well, let's see...

10,000 gallons of Jet-A
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L-188 (love drip stick fueling)
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My mounts (L-R, 7000 gallons Jet-A, MoGas (400gal), 2500gal Jet-A, 5000gal Jet-A, and 10,000gal Jet-A.)
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Weekly engine run
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Maintenance
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Coming off the Addison Wye just south of Addison Airport
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My last 3 jobs - Denver, Columbus, and Dallas :)


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kenlyco
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Wow, that one sweet fueler,is that a Vicount
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Nathan
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Bluedharma wrote:
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Short and sweet! :lol:

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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.
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Wow, that one sweet fueler,is that a Vicount


L188. I saw it again almost exactly 2 years later on one of its last revenue operations before it was finally retired for good. It's an ex-Zantop aircraft but by the time I saw it the first time in 2002 it was being operated by another company, HMZ.
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I've only got this picture from when it snowed (which is a big deal in Seattle). The Space Needle is only a few blocks behind but not visible due to the "blizzard".

Not a dream job but it's paying the bills and allowing me to travel for my airshow activities.

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Here's a few,

P & W West Palm Beach ( Pre-Rocketdyne days)
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Andrews AFB, 89th AirLift Wing
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UAL- OAK, SFO, IAD
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How about getting your fuel ticket and it says two inop. wing gauges ,fun
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I'll do you one better. Evergreen 747-100F, both main tanks on the right wing suspect and they wanted 150,000 LBS. During PEAK.

Or my "pride and joy" fuel - same company, sister aircraft, a year later & the helper (who had been fueling for 6 months and never at Cargo) decided to not pay attention and was just letting the "automatic" system fuel. He only stopped when he couldn't lower the lift on Tanker 14 (the big one) any further and was having to stoop to stay under the wing. I looked over from across the ramp and he's got the danged thing leaning like nothing else. He figured the "automatic" system would close off the tanks to keep them even not understanding (and not listening to what we told him before he went to fuel the plane) that the "automatic" system would only shutoff when the total said the amount he dialed in. I spent the next 45 minutes transferring fuel from the flight deck to re-balance the airplane. Thankfully he didn't overfuel it or else I would have really had a cow. Funniest part was the crew driving up, about die when they see the plane leaning like it was, then the FE coming up and finding me there already fixing the problem and just laughing when I told him what happened. Apparently it wasn't the first time he'd had it happen.
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Mike,

When were you at the 89th? I was there from 1968 to 1975. Do you get back to the reunions?

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Jack,dont take this wrong but I thought you were much older,your about my age maybe a little younger 46.
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45 is old enough :!:

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