Stig Shift #23 (Aircraft Maintenance Adventures) 

Omygosh!! Stig is on!! Let’s stay up and watch the video!!! Who needs sleep 😴!!!!

Absolutely amazing words for your mum. Well said. You only have 1 set of parents.

You are absolutely correct with the Merc @ 25:48 being very rare. It's a 560 SEC AMG. Part of why it's so rare and unique is the interesting relationship between AMG and Mercedes at the time. Some of you may or may not recall, that AMG used to be a separate tuning company that overhauled already manufactured cars. You couldn't order an AMG SEC from a Mercedes dealer like you can now (Well, technically you can't order an SEC anymore, but you get the point). You had to order a regular SEC and then put up another order with AMG and deliver your car to them for an overhaul. The process involved multiple mechanical modifications to increase the power and improve the handling, but also hacking up the body to give it the flared fenders and sometimes even repainting the whole car while they were at it. The conversions were very well made, looking and working like that was the way the cars left the factory. When you were too rich for a regular SEC, this is what you got to impress your friends.

Hi Stig, thanks for your kind words at the end of video. Learning so much from you, you open the knowledge gate of aviation for me with such a easy way, just watching your video's. Thanks again...

Thanks for sharing! I pray the next generation will share Your enthusiasm.

Hey Stig, absyloved this video. Your presentations are like fine wine, you get better with age. Technical explanations along with videos and photo clips make your presentations very educational and enjoyable to watch. My grandkids are now great viewers. Keep'em coming brother. From Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

Thank you sir. And everyone involved in aviation that keeps the sky safe!! It’s quality how engineering can bring people together. 👍🙏🙏

At (24:04). Man, those Tesla trux look like Martian landers or something. Goofy looking.

What a treat. We get the barking dog, and a bonus kitty cat. Cheers Stig!

Unsure if you've already done something like this, but I (and surely many others) would be very interested to watch a video about your journey in becoming an aircraft mechanic for the airlines. Watching through your series of videos has honestly made me seriously consider line maintenance as a potential career, so any insight you can provide into the process would be truly invaluable. Not that you are obliged, though! Every episode of Stig Shift is enough of a blessing as is.

I’ll be 66 on May 25 th. You continue to teach this old dog new tricks! I ‘bout melted on the floor when I saw that awesome Maserati. What a gorgeous car. Thank you, be safe, take care.

Wise words at the end for all the senior technicians and trainees. In my field(automotive) , I had some very poor teachers and a couple of very good ones. You are in the very good class! Excellent videos 🎉

Hello Stig. I've been an aviation enthusiast for more than 20 years, and I've piloted two types of aircraft you are servicing. Even though I have been through FCOMs, FCTMs, and AMMs my whole career, I have learned more from your videos in a few months than I have from these books in 20 years. :D Keep up the good work.

Beautiful shout out to your Mum! She really did an amazing job Stig!! Happy Mother’s Day to her. 🌹

Stay belted! Here is one where ALL were belted and there were FEW injuries, way more dramatic, and damaging to plane, 1985. Plane dropped, out of control 30,000 FEET! On the 19th of February 1985, a China Airlines Boeing 747 one engine of 4 lost power, and due to pilot inattention, they allowed the plane to roll, then stall. Mind you, this plane can fly with ONE engine, and 3 were working fine. It was pilot error! They did not pay attention to speed or bank angle, while troubleshooting the ONE engine. Pieces began to tear off the jet as it tumbled toward the sea. And then, just when it seemed all hope was lost, the captain regained his bearings and leveled the plane - after falling more than 30,000 feet in two and a half minutes, they pulled out just in time. The crew nursed the crippled 747 to an emergency landing in San Francisco, and the 274 passengers and crew disembarked with only a few serious injuries. The media hailed the captain as a hero. But what was the real story? The proper procedure for dealing with a hung engine was to close the bleed air valves on that engine before attempting to increase power, and this probably would have fixed the problem; however, Wei was allowed to perform the procedure without reference to the checklist, and while working from memory he forgot to perform this minor but critical step. The engine did resume power, they went about it all wrong. Part, but not all of the horizontal stabilizer was broken off, but it FLEW fine, landed safely. That plane far exceeded it's design limits.

Planes, cats and cars - what could be better?

I just have to say Stig one of the things you do that we appreciate the most as viewers is the way you interact with us in the comments and showing us things we ask about during your videos. That makes a world of difference in setting you apart from every other creator on this platform who doesn’t do it. You are our biggest fan, but we are your biggest fans!

Stig, I’m currently an apprentice getting my engineering license and your videos are massively helpful to develop my knowledge and aid my understanding on different systems and processes. Thank you for taking your time to make these videos, it’s highly appreciated 💪

Thanks again Stig! I’ll never tire of learning about these beautiful machines. Lovely words for your Mother there. Family is important. Always remember where you came from. 🫡

What I always appreciate about airliner redundancies is that these aren't just duplicates or backups but webs of asymmetrically configured overlapping systems. It would take multiple of failures of different types in multiple places from multiple causes to get to a catastrophic situation. And also, rather than binary failures there are degrees of capability degradation. Many people smart people have thought about these things. I especially like the Airbus hydraulics design.

Always love the airbus barking of the hydraulics beautiful and always great vid :)

That jet blue landing was impeccable

I finally got to see the barking dogs. We sat on the tarmac once while those things ran over and over again. Finally, we returned to the gate where something was repaired, and we finally left over an hour late.

My only excuse to ever stay up late, glad to be early to this one! Great work stig!

I'm glad to see your channel . Lots of thing's to know and learn tnkx

The respect this man deserves for not only making awesome videos and keeping people safe, but he includes respect to his mom in his video. It’s sad to say that it’s difficult to find those people who respect family. o7

I think I spotted you several times while I was on holiday in LA last week (spent 95% of the holiday planespotting of course)

Love love love your videos and your incredible passion. Thank you!

"Aaand the Weather Radar will make pancakes!" love your work, Sir ❤

Another awsome stream. Amazing how the flaps work, so many mechanisms in place that need to work together. My sincerest thank you for your educational shows

Stig, thanks immensely for another awesome video. I am hooked! I truly appreciate you for taking the time to explain an array of aircraft concepts and systems. Take care and be safe!

Stig the man is back with another amazing upload, this guy never fails to impress us with his videos. Keep up the great work and can't wait for the next one.

You are the most wonderful person..my friend..The video was great,but even better was what you said about your Mom...May God bless you my friend

Also, it was cool to see the Rezvani, I have not seen one before. However, I couldn't help but notice that this half-million-dollar car doesn't even have a spare tire 24:43, not even a donut!

Hope all is well with you Stig. Always good to see your content and a pleasure to watch. Keep up the fantastic work my man.

Never a dull moment my friend. ThankYOU!

Stig, you caught me a bit late 😂 will watch in the morning, now i’ve got something to look forward to!

Cool and inspiring🤙 Always learn and share knowledge and experience with colleagues, that's really nice point, Stig!!!

I am speechless!!! This is one of the best video I watched up to now, at your channel. Shiiit, you are making me happy and hungry for mooore knowledge everytime I watch your videos. Plus, I extremely appreciate the quality, postproduction, narration recorded during editing process... Very time consumpting in my opinion. When I was recording me playing guitars and putting it all together, it also took certain amount of time. Stig - please, never stop! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Plus, I am always improving my knowledge of the english language, right with your help. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND PASSION👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Stig, you are a good dude. Thank you for sharing your amazing aviation world 👍

Great as ever! Thank you, Stig!

Absolutely mind boggling and some more !!

This is an awesome video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this industry.

Stig, you are by far my favorite aviation channel on RU-vid right now. As a pilot myself I love seeing the maintenance side of aviation cause without you guys I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing haha. Keep up the amazing work and content 😎🤙

Hi Stig, Totally agree with you on sharing your knowledge, knowledge is power if you share it. Too many people think that keeping it to themselves makes them stronger, that is simply not the case! Keep up the great channel, your enthusiasm is so powerful. I found the best way to know your trade and skills is being able to teach others. Best to you and your Mum (Mom), sorry i'm a Brit!

That was cool getting to see the working mechanisms that operate the flaps, bark for me dog, ruff ruff lol. I think its pretty cool how the flight computer shows the open and closed doors/hatches on the plane. And just when I wondered what that speaker looking thing was, you answered the question without me asking it, the ACT system for central tanks. I absolutely loved that sweet message that you gave to your mom, I 100% agree with everything you said, because even I know its true, as I also thank your mother for bringing you into this world, because you bring us such joy, she raised you right indeed.

The touching message to your mom for mother's day was lovely 👍

You’re the best always looking forward for your videos. God bless you and your family.

Thank you Monsieur Stig for all yours videos. It's alway a good opportunity to learn something. You have another fan in France.

This is the first video I watched on your channel. Love these videos. I plan on starting school for my a&p on august hopefully. Learning how these machines operate gets me even more excited! Can’t wait! 🙏

My goodness this was a good one Stig. Thank you for talking about the airbus Nose gear faults! My goodness how cool is that 777 built in test function? You would think the EICAS would be enough but that maintenance access computer is amazing!!! Wow!!!!

Stig, what a great video. All your videos are so informative! The landing gear at 90 degrees info is really interesting and impressive! So cool! Thanks Stig you're awesome!

Always learn and enjoy watching Stig video!!!....Thanks!!!......A real professional A&P

Stig, you have the heart of a teacher. Thank you for all of the knowledge that you share. I learn so much with every video. I have no doubt that your Mother is incredibly proud of you!

Another great knowledge based video, you're a very humble guy stig, thanks for sharing.. 🤙🤙

Live the videos. Look forward to another "Name that price" episode. Thanks

12:01 Love the L-1011! (and your cat :p)

One more wonderful video as always Stig. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us my friend.

I really appreciate the diagrams showing the systems. Helps a lot in understanding things. Thank you.

Hey Stig. Another brilliant, brilliant episode. Showing us and explaining the inner workings of the flaps in action was absolutely amazing and then the nose gear explanation with the diagrams was so cool, techno mumbo jumbo at it's fascinating finest and its this level of detail that makes your videos so great. Aircraft truly are the most incredible machines mankind has ever created. I just wanted to say that it's really because of you that the channel is growing. Once you combine our enthusiasm and willingness to learn with your knowledge and own infectious enthusiasm and willingness to teach, the result is truly amazing and captivating videos. You have a brilliant way of explaining things, and you are giving us exactly what we want in your videos. I'm pretty sure we're all here for way more than just looking at aircraft, at the very least, I am anyway. We want to know what, why, and how, and like I said, that's exactly what you're giving us, so in truth, it really is us that should be saying the thank yous 🖖

Hello, from the MIA FO! Look forward to seeing you again, Stig! Now, on to your video!

this is _ incredible _ content, I'm learning so many interesting things - and presentation is simply amazing, not to mention fun! :D many thanks

Another great rime experience watching Stig

That cat..catches my attention 😅😊

Amazing how small the area of intake is to the compressors, compared to the N1 fan. Makes sense why near the root of the N1 fan blade, its stright in line to the intake airflow, so not to impede flow. Ya gotta a dream job Stig, and your knowledge is impressive to say the least.

Every video gets better and better. Taking my comps for Generals rn and you give me the motivation to keep studying hard to pass my o&p

Thank you so much for taking us on your journey!

Flying on your awesome airplanes again tonight...such great service...

Thanks for share your knowledge with us. I’m studying mechanic aircraft here in Brazil I hope soon to be work that I always liked . Aviation is my passion

54:07 You are gem of a technical person. Enabling others and working to make them great. That’s the way i learned. You are a gift. 20 years from now others will come back and say you’re one of a select few that made them what they are. Marvelous. Wonderfully done.

Absolutely love the information having to do with the fuel systems. I’m an airline fueler at my home airport, we have 35-40 AA flights per day. 75% are E170’s by Republic and Envoy, and there are one or two CRJ2’s by Air Wisconsin and a few RJ9’s by PSA thrown in there. Our mainline service is mostly 737-800 and A319/20/21 aircraft. I always enjoy learning about the fuel systems in these planes, how they operate. Keep up the great work, love your content! Don’t forget the coffee! ☕️

The first time stig has been lost for words! G'day from Tasmania!

Awww. Your cat is cute. What's his or her name? Gotta' love The Stig Adventures.

Such an amazing vid, totally my fav RU-vid channel!!

2:30 That was a great perspective to give on how control surfaces are powered. Awesome footage!

Thank YOU for sharing your knowledge. Very much appreciated

another great upload, thank you

Hey Stig! Thank you so much for these type of videos. I am 18 years old and I’m looking into the aviation industry. You really are expanding my knowledge and trust with these type of videos. Fair well ❤

Thanks for another amazing Stig adventure. I hope your mom watches your videos as I’m sure she loved your comment to her. Look forward to your next Stig adventure.😊

Awesome indepth video's. Must see for aviation-addicts

Greetings! I just want to say that I love your videos!! It is always interesting to see things from another airline's perspective, I am from SWA my self. Cheers and keep up the great work!!!

Oh yes! Straight in and face to face with the Airbus Barking Dog !

THATS what that weird noise is when youre on an A321....Great video. Love your vids.....keep posting all those great shots.

Fantastic to get idea how flaps etc work. Great content as usual.

Ah yes new Stig video! Love these!!!

I always respected you for being exactly what you are. I respect you even more for sharing, teaching & showing us & your coworkers; and I will tell you why. When I worked @Sony there were certain people (asskissers, brown nosers to be nicer) that were always picked for product training even when it wasn’t their product & to perform a ‘knowledge transfer’ upon their returning to the people who actually had the hands on experience but never sharing to hold others back or to ‘have the power’ over others so they kept it to themselves. I applaud you for your respect of others & not be on a higher level than you coworkers. I could not think of a better man than YOU I’d rather be in a foxhole with. Your Mom did a wonderful job with you!

Another great and super informative video! I am curious, with the recent Airbus 330 electrical fire at Sea/Tac airport, could you explain for us the policies/procedures for ground support folks, as well as A&P mechanics, when a fire is discovered involving a aircraft? In the RU-vid video, there appeared to be quite a bit of confusion. Thanks again for everything you do!

Love your Videos, please keep posting.

16:16 Learned there is an "anti shimmy accumulator" in the nose wheel. Not very scientifically, but accurately described by Airbus 😃 That AMG Benz I believe is a 600 SEC!! Wow 👍😎🤙

Very very nice words at the end of the video, it is nice to see your work, your way of working, your jokes and as an aviation employee and spotter I learn a lot more. I'm a bit like you, when I see something on a plane and I don't understand what it is or do I ask a mechanic and they always love to tell you about it, because like you Stig you like your job and to teach others. Keep up the nice video. Cheers from Danny aka PiPo

thanks Stig! have a nice week!

After 2years since i went down the Rabbit hole i absolutely love this guy. My chill out time 🙂 Keep going Stig!😉

Stig, I love your videos, you remind me of my dad who used to be an aircraft mechanic. Thank you for making such entertaining videos

Stig! I joyfully am on a trip this week, and as I was sitting in my airplane seat watching the ground crew prepare for pushback I thought, "I would love it if Stig talked about what it took to go through schooling and become an aircraft mechanic." Keep up the awesome content!

Another Stig Shift!!!! Dutch Roll is a stability issue. Occurs with strong lateral stability, but weak directional stability - Yawing motion out of sync with rolling motion. Works like so: 1) Aircraft initially disturbed in Yaw, causes roll in the same direction. 2) As aircraft yaws back, it rolls in the opposite direction. (Aircraft yaws past the original position) 3) The cycle repeats.

Loving the videos and information mate. From a fellow aviation nut and ramp trainer in Australia

At 54.00 onwards you're words mean so much and are so true. Thank you Stig for these videos, I'm useless at tech, I can't even change a plug but as an avgeek I love these videos, I really like that I learn something new everytime. The best Aviation channel.........................................................in the world!❤

Thanks!

Awesome Stig. Always great videos. Can you talk about the fuel tank inspection windows on the lower side of the A320 wing. The black discs with white crosses in them. What’s the significance of the white cross and how does the system work. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻 love it.

omg I want to fly for the airlines (finishing my flight instructor certificate) but now you are making me want to learn the mechanics side of aviation where I am reading the FAA handbooks for fun lol