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Experts Mike Busch, Paul New, and Colleen Sterling answer your toughest aviation maintenance questions. Submit questions to [email protected]. New episodes are released the first and fifteenth of every month.

Episodes (203)

"Am I doing anything evil?"

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"That installation is fraught with peril"

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"I'm an old mechanic and really like the idea of priming and painting"

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"That's an oft-reported myth"

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Episodes (203)

"Am I doing anything evil?"

"That installation is fraught with peril"

"I'm an old mechanic and really like the idea of priming and painting"

"That's an oft-reported myth"

“Is this like pulling a mattress tag off?”

"The owner can't do maintenance because the owner doesn't have arms"

"You're going to give him nightmares"

"He has a piston with a smiley face on it that's not very happy"

"Just be sure you lube it with something"

"If you go to 76 percent, the wings will fall off"

"It's one of the few accidents where you get to choose where it happens"

"Being an aircraft owner is the hardest job in aviation"

"That's an urban legend"

"More time to fly, less time to turn wrenches"

"You have a lot of splaining to do"

"Mechanics can be ornery sometimes"

Live from Airventure 2025

"That'd be like putting grease on the road"

"That's one way to flat spot a tire"

"An airplane with no engine is worth nothing"

"You have to cart mogas around like a homeless person"

"You have license to go zorching around"

"Continentals burn valves and Lycomings stick valves"

"My airplane is a flying experiment"

"They put all their maintenance records on napkins"

"Keep torturing those airplanes...and students"

"Shame on you for even thinking about it"

"If that doesn't work you've got the flame thrower option"

"Your airplane is on a full-time IV drip"

"You don’t know if he’s going to hit you with a wrench or a lawsuit"

"There's a serious brain drain in aviation maintenance"

"Check it, log it, and then relax"

"There’s a reason they call these amateur built"

"Don't open up the fuel system if you don't have to"

"The engine didn't explode"

"When they go bad the engine is toast"

"It goes through cylinders like flapjacks"

"When it starts to talk to you it's time to replace it"

"The people who design these airplanes don't work on them"

"Full rich is horrendously rich"

Live from Saturday Airventure 2024

"Mechanics are the surgeons of aviation"

"I've had grass stains on my prop"

"Placard it inop"

"Don't pull the throttle back until you want to land"

"Don't do that!"

"I have permission to get an airplane."

"I'm against throwing a part at something"

"You become the supervisor of your maintenance"

"Don't split the case halves"