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Saw a lot of older mechanics at the Oshkosh airshow last week
I was at the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh and spent a day just walking the flight line. It really hit me how many of the guys working on the vintage planes were older, maybe in their 60s or 70s. They were all swapping stories and showing younger folks tricks, like one guy explaining how to set the timing on a radial engine with just a piece of chalk. It felt like a lot of hands-on knowledge was right there in one place. Makes you wonder how we keep that kind of experience in the trade as more people retire.
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valgibson5mo ago
Is it really a problem if some old skills fade out though? New tools and methods come along all the time.
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betty_west406mo ago
Totally noticed that too. Watched an older guy hand-sew a fabric patch on a biplane wing like it was nothing. That skill is just gone now.
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