Articles for tag Mark Tyler
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May
11
2026
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My friend Buddy Evans used to call helicopter mechanics “Mack Daddy.”
And the first time you hear that, you might laugh a little…
because the world has its own definition of that term.
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Mark Tyler
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Apr
30
2026
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“I’ve worked in shops where quality was a slogan… and I’ve worked in shops where quality was a decision.
In aviation, quality is often described as everyone’s responsibility. It is. However, for the aircraft mechanic, quality is not a shared responsibility — it is personal responsibility. It is Job One.
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Mark Tyler
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Mar
22
2026
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As you’re reading this, Verticon is in our rear-view mirror. As I’m writing it, it’s next week.
I started attending helicopter trade shows in the 1990s as a young mechanic walking the floor wide-eyed, trying to learn everything I could. Back then I was the guy asking questions. Today, after more than a dozen years working a booth, I’m usually the one answering them.
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Mark Tyler
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Nov
13
2025
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In the helicopter industry, every flight depends on precision—and that precision begins long before the rotors ever turn. It begins in the hangar, in the hands of skilled mechanics who rely on the tools that make their craft possible. Behind those tools stands an often-overlooked partner in aviation safety: the tool truck.
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Mark Tyler
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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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Maintenance Minute
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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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Maintenance Minute
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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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