Undervalued Engineers?

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Originally Posted by Diff Tail Shim

Only thing they were any bloody good for was opening STC's. Reminds me of flying out to Turkey from Lyneham with a load of spares, tool kits and a Jaguar engine door in its STC. The bloody movers (bag chucklers) decided that a thin plywood shod STC was a prefect place to stick hundreds of kilogrammes of baggage on top of it. That the STC could not support. Stores at Colt were livid when they got the STC back from Turkey and it arrived back to us to be conditioned. My comment was "You should have seen the ****e they put on top of it!
I used a cordless screw gun on my aircraft yesterday. Nice piece of kit and the first time I have used our new addition to our line station tool board.. Actually cordless drills are almost mandatory pieces of kit used in Civvy base maintenance.

except near fuel tanks.