This book has been written by an aircraft engineer to give you an
insight into his sixty years as a maintenance man, inspecting,
rectifying, and certifying many types of aircraft all over the
world, and as a Licensed Engineer for forty-four years. The book
takes you through his five years in the Royal Air Force, as an
engine mechanic on Merlin engines as fitted to the Avro Lincoln.
During his service he saw action in Egypt (Canal Zone) also in
Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. For these he received two
campaign medals. Then into civilian life, working with some of the
major companies in the UK but mainly with the freight airlines, one
being Air Charter of London (a Freddie Laker company), which
included an airline as well as aircraft maintenance. He was engaged
on a prototype twin-engined small airliner, The Accountant (not too
successful). From there to an engine fitter on DC4, Bristol 170,
Avro Tudor aircraft, and many more. He was also a 'flying spanner'
on the DC4s flying between Southend airport in England and Adelaide
in Australia, still working for Laker. The author gained his
aircraft maintenance licence in 1967, which is still valid as of
2012. Over the years he has been involved with innumerable
aircraft, from the very small to the very large, including the
Russian-built Antonov AN 124, Boeing B17 Flying Fortress, Spitfire,
and P51 Mustang. His work has taken him all over the world
including North and South America, Australia, Russia, Africa, and
the Far East, as a fixer of unserviceable aircraft, and also as
engineering auditor mainly for oil companies involved in the oil
spill control world. Over the last thirty years he has been the
chief engineer on the only airworthy B17 flying outside the United
States, in addition to maintaining many War Birds during that time.
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