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Boeing's Emergency Airplane Repair Team
October 24, 2008 10:27 AM
ABC News’ Matt Hosford reports that: Nothing fires me up like a good song.
My new favorite starts with a shredding guitar lick -- something you might have heard on college radio circa 1993. The vocals echo Les Claypool’s days in Primus.
And the lyrics, “Well, we’re toolin’ and a spoolin’ and a riggin and a jiggin” are straight out of the Mike Watt playbook.
Now what if I told you it was set to footage of guys fixing a plane? Sounds cool, huh?
The video is called “Put Together Quickly” and was produced by Boeing.
It shows the company’s Aircraft on Ground team fixing a damaged Boeing 767 airplane. That’s its job: When a plane needs repairs, it goes out and fixes it. Or as the team sings in its song, “We’ll come and fix any airplane, where it happens to be, we’ll get it in the air flying, where a plane ought to be.”
The AOG story -- and accompanying video -- are featured on the Air and Space Magazine Web site. The plane AOG fixed in the video had to be taken apart and reassembled all in three weeks.
Doesn’t sound like much of a challenge for a team that promises: “We fix it from the top, And we fix it from below, We get it done fast and put you on the go, Gotta beat feet, Just give me a good crane and safety helmet.” I know I’m fired up.
October 24, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)
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Maybe the AOG guys can tell us what happened to this 767 part:
Posted by: spanner | Oct 24, 2008 2:06:41 PM
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