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Mar
03
2026
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Reflecting on 2025 and all the great things that happened this past year, I’m filled with gratitude—especially for the opportunity to witness my friend and mentor, Perry Siler, receive the Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award. I first met Perry in 1990 when I started a new job at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. I was a young A&P helicopter mechanic, and my director of maintenance introduced me to Perry with one simple piece of advice: “Never lose his number!” He told me Perry would always tell me the truth and would always be there to help me. After 35 years, I can say without hesitation that statement was absolutely true.
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Feb
02
2026
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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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Dec
26
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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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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Nov
10
2025
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Looking back over the last 44 years in aircraft maintenance, I am filled with gratitude. I’ve had the privilege of working for great companies and, more importantly, with people who invested generously in me. Their guidance, encouragement, and example shaped my career in lasting ways. Because of that, I do my best to pay it forward—helping others become the best they can be.
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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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