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Old 01-15-2012, 07:45 PM
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Left UT after 2 years toward and aero eng degree and started my work life in the Air Force. Worked on F-4D WCS, F-16 Comm/Nav/ECM, and then F-117A everything electronic.

Got my FCC with RADAR endorsement and went to Delta Air Lines at DFW as a line mechanic, getting my A&P as well. Did everything there from autopilot to toilets to engines.

Then the big downsize lay-offs in 1993 put me in the semiconductor industry. I have been a Final Test Engineer and Field Service Engineer for various equipment manufacturers before I got tired of traveling and settled on Motorola Semiconductor which is now Freescale Semiconductor. Can't complain about working seven 12 hour days every two weeks.


What I did today.

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Old 01-15-2012, 07:54 PM
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I'm guessing the plastic Saturn didn't fare quite as well.

That'll buff right out.
Sadly the driver of the Saturn walked out of the ER a few hours later (he ended up rolling his car 8 times after impact) and the driver of the benz didn't make it thats the only bad part of my job...
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Old 01-15-2012, 07:54 PM
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Default Reconstructed total?

Out of the 1000+ car collisions I have reconstructed < 10 had vehicles broken in two. The most recent was a BMW. Maybe we should ask the Germans. The BMW had a rear suspension subframe that tore the unit body structure open.

RR Grade Crossing collisions, tree and pole collisions are the most likely to result in the car exiting the collision in two pieces. BTW, I have learned to show this with my 3D animation software (It takes some "special" tricks).

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Just another day at the office as a Paramedic....



I do have a pretty awesome job but hoping to make the leap into full time aviation someday soon :-)

^^^ btw... to this day I don't understand how that Mercedes "tank" was sliced cleanly in half by a Saturn doing 100+
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Old 01-15-2012, 08:48 PM
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Default How I support my favorite bad habit

Still finding myself in the position of having to work for a living, I'm fortunate to have a job I thoroughly enjoy: I'm an ophthalmic anesthesiologist in Santa Fe & Albuquerque.

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Old 01-15-2012, 09:54 PM
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Default Bang'in rivits

I am a night lead mechanic for a large part 135 operation in Alaska. My job duties include just about anything you would expect from a A&P. My favorite thing is sheet metal, and I am the go to guy for that kind of stuff. Here is a recovery that two of us did last year. A temporary fuselage repair to the aft spar carry thru, a new wing, nose gear/engine and mount was needed to ferry it 800 miles out to our maintenance base. This aircraft was put back to work in about 5 months.




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Old 01-16-2012, 12:45 AM
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I manage and fly this aircraft. Lear 45. The aircraft is Part 91 and owned by five families. I've worked for them for fifteen years. They treat my co-pilot and I like family. It's a very rewarding and fun job.



I've been an aircraft mechanic, and electrician and an electrical contractor.

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Old 01-16-2012, 07:30 AM
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Default Cold conditions

Andrew, I guess when I worked in my garage on the 8 and didn't have the heater on in the winter, I had no legit complaining (errr wining) after seeing your outside work conditions. What was the coldest it got when you were working on that repair (two posts before this one)? Dave
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Old 01-16-2012, 08:03 AM
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After almost 16 years in the US I have been blessed to live the "American Dream" to the fullest. Get to fly a wonderful machine for a living and now build my own airplane. Now isn't that some awesome blessing!
I feel right at home here on VAF because of all the cool people with a purpose in life from the cube-dwellers to the space cowboys. We all need each other.

So thank you for all you do because without you I wouldn't be here either.

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Old 01-16-2012, 10:33 AM
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My post at http://www.vansairforce.com/communit...ad.php?t=81167 led to Pierre suggesting this thread so I'll expand on "A bit about me: I'm have an electrical engineer, computer science degree. I got my private ticket in 1987. Instrument rating in 1990. I've been a member of EAA chapter 105 for 18+ years and I'm currently on the board of directors. I've worked for Texas Instruments (Houston), Compaq Computer (Houston), Intel (Hillsboro, OR) and a small start up called ADDMM. I started working part time for Advanced Flight Systems shortly after the first flight of my RV."

I worked for Texas Instruments for 5 years designing seismic data acquisition equipment, the product was completed just as the oil industry had a decline and the equipment never went into production. While at TI, I also worked on a printer that did not make it to production. Joined Compaq Computer as employee 641, started working on the first DeskPro, 6 months later it was shipping. After 10 years at CPQ, and 10 products in production I moved to Portland OR area to work for Intel. I literally "wrote the book" on how to design with the Pentium Pro, Pentium II and several subsequent processors. Following many successful years in technical marketing, I worked in processor validation. ADDMM was a small company designing an innovative memory controller, funded by a large Japanese company: I was jack of all trades, master of none. Fun while it lasted, funding evaporated when the Japanese company lost money for the first time in their history. Then my full time job became building my RV-7A.

I had been talking to Rob for years about working for Advanced Flight Systems, just after the first flight of my RV-7A, he called and asked about my availability to work. I've been working for AFS as a contractor since then. Note that I planned to use a AFS-5600 years before I started working there! No picture of me now, at OSH 2011 one of Stein's guy's told Jenny Hickman that "Roy looks like a roadie for Blue Oyster Cult". Since then I've made my third hair donation to Lock Of Love........

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Our other riveted aluminum monocoque RV is a 25' Airstream

Past aluminum monocoque vehicles:
N601RT (CH601HDS) First flight 5/03, 1550hrs after flying 8 years: 912ULS, GNS430W, SL-30, D10A Sold
1995 Midnight Pearl NSX w/BBSC Sold

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