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Published: 2019-09-10 05:24:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 667; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 1
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-September 2019, Denver International Airport, KDEN-This was the third Aviation Day I had attended. The event is hosted in United's hangar at DEN and is intended to inspire high school students to join the filed of aviation. I was there representing the MSU Denver Aviation and Aerospace Department. (I graduated, but they were understaffed).
Express Jet brought an Embraer 170. This one was extra fun because it was the first aircraft I've seen in the new United Airlines livery. I love these little airplanes; I also got to poke around a Republic E170 in May:
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I remember working on E-jets. Smaller airliners all with their own unique equipment installed by specific airlines. Good times.
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I remember a few that had ‘camera mods.’ They installed a small black and white screen in the cockpit. On the overhead panel between the two front cockpit windows. They also installed three cameras into the ceiling panels and wired them up accordingly. You could then switch on the screen and be able to see who’s outside the cockpit door, who’s in the forward galley, and a view of the aisle leading to the back of the plane. Not high resolution, but more than enough to tell if someone is there or not. In terms of electronics and the like, most were the same. However, some components were in better shape than others. Like touchpads for the informational screens displaying electronics, hydraulic, and fuel indications. I remember one touchpad didn’t work at all. Meaning one of the pilots would be out of luck if they wanted to scroll between different menus. Some buttons were worn to the point you couldn’t really read what they were for. One side window had a lot of delamination. But if it wasn’t in the pilot’s direct field of vision, we were told to leave it unless a given percentage of the window was exhibiting delamination. Or finding a paper part tag inside the right wing fuel tank. A tag with a legible date; it had been in that fuel tank for a year. Lots of little things here and there. God I miss that job.
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