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MY LIFE IN AVIONICS PART 3
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lines got me a round-trip pass back to Washington National
Airport again, which was the home base of the airline. I was
hired on the spot. After all, I had an FCC second-class radio
license. They had a fleet of 52 Vickers Viscounts, a four-engine
turboprop, some Connies and a few DC-3s. I liked that life, but
just after we moved and purchased a nice new home in Woodbridge, Virginia, using the GI bill, the union went on strike and
I hadn't been there long enough to join the union. It was lean
times, so I became a house dad and my wife went to work.
Eventually, things fell into place as the strike was settled and
I joined the union. I wasn't too happy with this seniority thing.
It was assumed if someone belonged to the union longer than
you, they were smarter than you. There were some dumb guys
that had been there longer than me. But the union did get us
some good wages and benefits, so I was happy.
All my airline work was line maintenance, as there was a
repair shop for bench repairs. I could troubleshoot those aircraft quickly. When a pilot radioed ahead with problems, we
would check out some black boxes, catch the airline bus from

the hangar to the flight line, and wait for the plane. We were
expected to repair any problem in 15 minutes and usually did.
Heavy Collins and Bendix boxes were swapped as needed.
We made special tools, and I carried a little pencil magnet in
my pocket. At each gate, there was what looked like a broom
handle with a short piece of rubber hose on the end of it. The
gate agent used it to hand the final papers to the pilot through
his small window. When we had a complaint on the compass
system or the autopilot, I would put the little magnet in the hose
on the end of the stick. Then I would walk to the tail of the aircraft where the magnetic heading transmitter was located. By
moving the magnet from side to side, we simulated the aircraft
turning. Pretty smart, huh?
To get parts from the supply window, you needed a foreman's signature on the parts request form. You could never
find a foreman when you needed one, so one time when I
needed a part quickly, I gave up. I forged Nikita Khrushchev's
name on the form and got my part.
But when you didn't want a foreman checking on you, we
had a method for taking care of that, too. When keying the HF
radio in the aircraft on the right channel, the company intercom
would pick it up and broadcast whatever you said. It was fun to

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