By DAVID NIXON
When you are around old airplanes you can’t help but feel part of the fabric of the past. When you grow up in a family that has old airplanes, that is even more apparent. When you work as airplane mechanic in general aviation you add even more to the texture.
Mechanics become part of the history woven in the make and model, N number, serial number, and logbook entries of a flying machine. Your work literally becomes the next page in the life of an old airplane. It is what I like about general aviation and my line of work. How and when the past comes to the present is often a function of happenstance. It happens when you least expect it, sometimes with the simplest of conversations.
===> Posted on April 17, 2011 by . No comments. © GAN 2011
