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Yet another darn engineer! LOL.
I'm a flight test engineer for Boeing on the C-17 cargo aircraft. We are based at Edwards Air Force Base in sunny California. This is the place where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound. These days the flight test pilots have 2.5 kids, a house, and drive minivans. It's up to us engineers to be the wild ones.
But right now I'm fixing UH-60s in Iraq and will go back to the flight test job in a couple of months. I'm getting real good at safety wiring things.
I'm a flight test engineer for Boeing on the C-17 cargo aircraft. We are based at Edwards Air Force Base in sunny California. This is the place where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound. These days the flight test pilots have 2.5 kids, a house, and drive minivans. It's up to us engineers to be the wild ones.
But right now I'm fixing UH-60s in Iraq and will go back to the flight test job in a couple of months. I'm getting real good at safety wiring things.

. Also got to see the B-2 bomber (the wing) when it was being tested at Edwards. I had to round up a guest speaker for our dining-in. I found out from one of the pilots at Edwards that Chuck was living in Northern Cali. So I gave him a call and he agreed to come down. We took the CG's UH-60 and flew up and picked him and his wife up and flew them back to Fort Irwin. He even got some stick time. Cool guy and even though he spent all of his life in fix winged aircraft he flew the 60 like he had been trained for it. I had him sign both of my books he wrote.



