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What's up, guys? My name is Nate. I'm here at the 
aircraft maintenance lab. This is our little  

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hanger. We have a lot of cool planes here. All of 
these planes here are super common, so you pretty  

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much get to learn on everything that's flying 
right now. We have our Piper Tomahawk right  

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here. We have some experimental stuff. And 
then we have a really cool helicopter. This is  

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our Jet Ranger 2. So, we get to do projects on the 
helicopter like these guys up here. Originally,  

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we were doing a gear swing for this aircraft. 
Then we did have a hydraulic leak. So,  

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right now we're trying to fix that. Right now 
they're working on the panel under the belly.   

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Of course we got it on jacks and then we're going 
to try to put this line in. We have a PT6 jet  

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engine. We do get to run it up. That's one of our 
projects for Power Plant. - is actually running  

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up a turbine engine. We have a Sky Master 
right here. This is a double engine. So there's  

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going to be two engines. There's going to be one in 
the front, one in the rear. As we move forward,  

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we have another experimental engine as well, right 
here. Another experimental plane here. Now, this  

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one's really cool cuz it's an experimental plane 
as well, but it's not built by any factory or  

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manufacturer. It was actually built in somebody's 
garage and then they donated it to us. So,  

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what we're doing here today is we're going to be 
timing the valves and the magnetos. And right now,  

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we're doing that with this little buzz 
box. Right now, by turning this prop,  

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we're able to adjust the magnetos so the timing 
of the engine is perfect. So it runs right.  

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We have all of our cleaning stuff to clean all 
of our parts. On my left right here is our test  

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cells. One of our projects for Power Plant is 
actually overhauling an engine. You strip it  

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all the way down to bare parts down to the 
crankshaft, down to the pistons, everything. And  

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then we put them in a test cell or outside and we 
actually run them up. And these ones right here  

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are all students who are disassembling them or 
reassembling them to test them out, pretty much.

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(engine starts)

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And then now we're going to step up to turbo jets. 
These are what you see in fighter jets. Just  

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straight pure thrust. This is our JT12. It's 
a really cool engine that we have. We get to  

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run this up. We get to do projects on this. 
We get to actually touch and run up engines,  

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jet engines, like this. Super cool. Really 
loud, really powerful. And then after, if you want  

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to do some efficiencies, we go on to Big Daddy 
747. This is a JT9 right here. Turbo fan. And this  

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baby creates a lot of thrust. This is the ones you 
go cross country with these ones. International.

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(music and airplane idling)