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Sep
25
2025
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As the years click by on this journey we call aircraft maintenance, I find that some things bother me more now than they used to. At the top of that list? A bad attitude. I consider myself patient, but when someone displays an attitude of not caring, that’s when I have to step in and try to correct the ship.
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Mark Tyler
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Aug
27
2025
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There’s an old saying in leadership circles: “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Nowhere is that more true than in helicopter maintenance.
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Mark Tyler
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Jul
27
2025
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Not long ago, one of our aircraft mechanics had a close call. While working on a helicopter from an elevated platform ladder, he shifted his weight—and the ladder flipped. He fell inside the frame and struck his head on a side brace, requiring 17 stitches.
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Mark Tyler
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Jul
07
2025
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Not long ago, one of our aircraft mechanics had a close call. While working on a helicopter from an elevated platform ladder, he shifted his weight—and the ladder flipped. He fell inside the frame and struck his head on a side brace, requiring 17 stitches.
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Mark Tyler
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May
23
2025
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In aviation maintenance, we live by the standard. Minimum Equipment Lists, standard torque values, standard practices. But somewhere along the way, “standard” started sounding like “average.” And that’s a mindset problem—one we can’t afford in this industry.
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Mark Tyler
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May
05
2025
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I love a good catchphrase. Much like the marketing ads that tell us to “Just Do It” or “Have It Your Way,” in the helicopter world, Bell Helicopter brought us some classics in the 1990s, including “Ask Any Pilot” and my personal favorite, “It Better Be Bell.”
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Mark Tyler
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Mar
28
2025
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It would be interesting to know how many of you have heard of or know someone who has been awarded The Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award…or maybe have earned one yourself. The Federal Aviation Administration presents this award to honor a very elite group of aviation mechanics. To qualify for consideration requires at least 50 years of documented work experience in aviation maintenance, to hold an Airframe and Powerplant Certificate or Repairman Certificate in good standing and to demonstrate professionalism and dedication to aviation safety. The award is named for Charles Taylor who was the first aviation mechanic. He collaborated with the Wright brothers and played a pivotal role in developing the engine for their first powered flight.
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Feb
28
2025
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It would be interesting to know how many of you have heard of or know someone who has been awarded The Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award…or maybe have earned one yourself. The Federal Aviation Administration presents this award to honor a very elite group of aviation mechanics. To qualify for consideration requires at least 50 years of documented work experience in aviation maintenance, to hold an Airframe and Powerplant Certificate or Repairman Certificate in good standing and to demonstrate professionalism and dedication to aviation safety. The award is named for Charles Taylor who was the first aviation mechanic. He collaborated with the Wright brothers and played a pivotal role in developing the engine for their first powered flight.
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Mark Tyler
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Jan
23
2025
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If we’ve ever met in person my accent will probably make it evident that I grew up in the deep south. Most families in my hometown worked either in the cotton mill, paper mill or the marble quarry. My family was cotton mill people, so I became a cotton mill person at the age of sixteen. Looking back on it, I am incredibly grateful for that experience. People that worked in the cotton mill and, I’m sure, the other industries, developed a strong work ethic and a deep respect for one another. One of things I noticed as a young man working in the mill was that when someone retired after forty or fifty years of working, they received a special gift to commemorate the day. For the men that retired that gift was almost always a fishing rod and reel. After witnessing this many times, I though…is this what I have to look forward to, working fifty years and getting a Zebco? I have come to realize that a rod and reel would be the perfect gift and hopefully one day I will get mine.
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Mark Tyler
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Dec
23
2024
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In late September 2024, Hurricane Helene was beginning to churn and stir in the Gulf of Mexico. Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region near Perry, Florida, as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds and 15-foot storm surge. Over the next couple of days, she made her way through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and into the mountains of western North Carolina (WNC) where extensive rains caused massive flooding.
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