Stig Shift #5 (08DEC23-10DEC23) 

I love taking the tail numbers of these planes you work on into flight radar to see where they’re at in the world.

I am started to be addicted to this beautiful channel and the super nice narrations…

Nothing more beautiful than the VC-25A not to mention the other 2 presidential jets you showed us thank you for serving your fellow Avgeeks love your content

That original terminal was there when LAX was called MEIGS Field.back in WWII. At the approach end of runways 24L and 24R, now a parking lot was three streets, El Manor, Lyceum, and Alverstone. I lived on both El Manor and Alverstone. Across Sepulveda was a housing project, all 1 bedroom duplexes, built for the workers at North American Aviation (Mitchell B-25's and P-51 Mustangs) At the opposite end of Interceptor Street was Airport Junior High school. I went there from 1957 - 1961. "Yea Elysians." Graduated and went to Westchester High. I was there when the new LAX terminals, the control tower, and the theme building were being built. Remember Western Airlines? Remember DC-6's, DC-7's, and Super Connies flying for TWA? I watched the Brooklyn Dodgers land, and walked off their Convair 440 in LA Dodgers uniforms. Continental Airlines had the first Boeing 707 to land at LAX. United had the first DC-8. Thanks for the memories. Jon

so glad i found this channel combines 2 of my favorite things

As a ramp guy and an aviation enthusiast I love these videos

I enjoy and learn a ton with your vids. They’re educational and funny at a time. Thanks for your content and please, keep posting 😊 You’re right, the triple 7 is so elegant lady ❤

Your vlogging skills are out of this world!

I think I’ve commented on every long video like this! Couldn’t tell you enough how much I enjoy watching these videos! Can’t explain my love for those massive beautiful pieces of engineering! It’s incredible! Greetings and marry Christmas from Norway! 🇳🇴

Man, I love watching your videos. You have the best job on the planet. I love aviation and should have made it my occupation but life took me in a different direction. Keep em coming!!! PS...Air Force One is a gorgeous bird!!!

2:24 I love the chimes of the 1st stage fan blades moving and clanging around! 🤠👍

Thank you again Stig!! SO interesting SO fascinating SO beautiful watching your babies fly

I've been watching for a few weeks now and I love it stig! I'm a huge aviation geek and sim flyer. I don't know what it is but it's super relaxing to listen to this in the background, learning new things about these beautiful aircraft. I would LOVE to get a video with you talking about your history in the aviation industry! It would be super interesting to hear tales of old about the previous generation of airliners. Especially the differences from then and now. Anyway, keep it up stig, you're doing fantastic work!

Really cool to see your side of operations . being a passenger , we see the planes pull up to the gates , then we board . Having several pairs of eyes looking over these birds is the way maintenance should be done .

Can't believe those cars sit out there for days in the elements with no covers. Crazy

I will never get tired of of you sharing your feelings, thoughts and knowledge about your great job.

Thank you so much for your work and for sharing your knowledge with us, my god the triple 7 is huge from your point of view, 1M likes for you.

I absolutely LOVE the smell of jetfuel too..love your videos too! I look forward to more! And I love your passion for aviation

Love these and the wide video!

great vid as always! keep up the good work Stig!!!

Loved watching from beginning to end. Many thanks for what you do, stig!

I start my A&P course Monday and these videos help get a jump start to what im gonna learn

It’s almost like Christmas arrives early with another Stig Shift video! 😊

Absolutely love these videos! Keep it up :D

Fellow A&P here, love your videos and the positive view of the industry. Very happy to hear that you still love what you do. Keep showing others how great aviation can be!!!

should have shown more of those cars haha love the crossover two of my favorite things, planes and cars!

Gotta stick around for the end of a Stig shift episode! The passion is excellent! Keep it up! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Boy would I love to spend a day on the apron with you. The videos will do for now. Appreciate you sharing this with us. Thanks Stig!

I loved US AIRWAYS! Watched AF1 come in and Marine One take off on Airline Videos Live. Thanks for your coverage.

Great video, Stig! I love those incredible automobiles! 👍

Stig, I love love love the cargo section of the video!!! Those cars are cool!

Love your passion

i love your narration - just on point. love the smell in the morning too

Stig, you have a job of a lifetime..envious. Thanks for all the info.

Those pictures look a lot like some old pictures I’ve seen of SCLA back in the day! Walking around the aircraft always puts such a smile on my face! Absolutely love it! 😊

STIG You are an awesome person!!! These videos are GREAT!!! Thank you.

I definitely appreciate the way you describe these aircraft. Definitely a work of art and awe inspiring! I live vicariously through you!👍🏽👍🏽

As a kid I flew on a ton of Delta L1011's across the Atlantic. That pic you put up brought back a lot of memories :) Loved that plane, and got to visit the cockpit many times. Miss those and the MD11/DC10's.

THANKS bro great work keep up

Like your videos. Thanks for your time. ❤

Absolutely loving these videos,only just found tour channell, cheers rob uk

Hi Stig Just found your channel. Absolutely love it. Admire your dedication and love for your profession!

Love your videos. Really, such a professional and such pride and attention to detail in your work. I feel very safe knowing that maintenance like you are out there making sure these huge planes are working properly.

That red & carbon fiber Zenvo Aurora you found at the cargo lot sure got my attention! 💯

Another great video. You provide lots of technical information as well as the inter workings of different aircraft. Great information.

My goodness that 787 cockpit was beautiful! I love airplanes and to smell that jet fuel too!😍

It's so nice to see someone take so much pride in their job. Stay safe my friend.

For me this is the greatest channel, you answer questions I never knew I had, keep this up 😀

I honestly can’t believe you got to see all of those cars in person in one sitting, that’s truly a remarkable experience, I had never even heard of a zenvo…wow

AF1, you lucky dog! Can’t wait for the -8! ✈️👍🏼

I miss LA so much. Thank you.

Really love the cargo fleet. Also a top gear fan. 🤙🤙

Hey stig, just discovered your channel and love your videos so far! I'm an air traffic controller at an enroute center in the U.S. and i can provide some insight on the screen below the ISIS at about the 10:00 mark. AAL has, along with us, been testing a new spacing system over the past year where we can give the pilots a spacing clearance such as 'cross xx (fix) at and maintain 8 miles (or an amount of seconds) behind (callsign.) This screen uses ADS B as you said to find that other aircraft and command a speed for the pilots to select on the autopilot to achieve the desired spacing! This is used exclusively with AAL A321'S for now.

Fantastic content. Just awsome to see these amazing craft up close, and to be able to see areas of them that most people never see or are even aware exist. Love the details, explanations, and knowledge, all presented so well. Thank you. And I sure hope that if I fly, I fly a plane you've inspected and checked over. Admire your enthusiasm and dedication to your job.

You're an absolute gem Stig. Love these videos 😃😃 Wish I had thought of being an aircraft engineer when I left school 😞

Only discovered your channel today and am binge watching already! 😍 it! 🥇✈️🔧

I’m currently in school for my A&P just getting into power plant, love your videos and all the info you give on even the smallest things. Keep up the great videos!!!

That’s cool you were able to be on the ramp when AF1 left, when it came in by us the ramp stopped us and made us go inside.

that lfa was so nice i love the orange thank you stig

Thank for an excellent video. The camera quality is magnificent.

man i am always speechless while watching your videos!! i wish i could get an office like yours

Hi always good things te see thanks for n good program.Regards Braam from South Africa.

Another fantastic video. But wow, can you imagine all the huge early movie stars who came through that old terminal? What history. And the cars? Woah. Surprised they're not all covered, but likely some reason for that.

As someone who flew Learjets for 15 years and the A320/321 for a while I really love your videos. Great work. Excellent.

ADSB is fun to track with an RTL-SDR and another one set to the local traffic control. Thanks for sharing your work.

Hello Stig, thank you for sharing. You are very fortunate to be able to see and touch those beautiful airplanes every day. I was just about to ask you about any Avianca ones. Greetings!

I love that I've been a passenger on a lot of the planes you worked on. Especially the 787s to HND. Used to take the HND-LAX and vice-versa a lot

I worked on the ref systems on both 747s and some of the 757s at Andrews A.F.B. An awsome aircraft

Stig thanks for the photos @ 4:06 of Emery Air Freight 60 series DC8’s. Worked at the Emery hub for 10 years loading aircraft. The newest plane we had was a DC-10 and L-1011.

Nicely done Stig! 😊

Thanks for making this videos , im studing for my B2 avionics license and this helps a lot

Very informal video and I enjoy learning from a mechanic with many years of experience on the job!

Love the channel. Thanks for the MD11. Can you review fire panel/bottle buttons.

Wide framed upload! 💯👌. Tall screen uploads are no bother to me, but I appreciate the full screen! Happy wrench turning from your new MKE subscriber!!

What a great channel 👍 Subscribed a few days ago and new world opened up ... All the best, Per (Denmark)

I absolutely love this channel. As a new ramp worker it's often my job to perform safety inspections but I always want to know more. Coming here, I get to understand a little bit more about what I'm looking at so I can be safer and more informed in my job. I'm not swapping anything I learn here for training but it's nice to understand the nature the equipment to a greater depth. I have an often irrational love for aviation but as an industrial designer (my day job) I explain that aviation is a perfect melding of design and engineering. Everything, right down to the screws in the galley are designed to a purpose. I'm in awe of the efficiency, the complexity, how something the size of a building can soar 7 miles in the atmosphere. In aviation (unlike many other subjects I could list), subjectivity, ambiguity and being driven by one's perceptions is never the guiding force, in fact those behaviors are considered extremely hazardous in aviation (as they should be in any pursuit). We follow strict practices and rely on facts because that's what proves to make this industry safe, efficient and a joy to work in. In a world that encourages polarization at every turn, aviation is a place where people from all backgrounds can come and agree. The way you feel each morning walking out on the ramp at LAX is the way I feel every day I get to be out there. It's a privilege to be so up close and personal. I love it but I also take the job very seriously. A question I have for you, and it's kind of a hard one to ask, is: how are you allowed to record as much as you do? I'm so glad you are but I also know that in my job I'm not allowed to video out there.

Seen ya kinda fighting to get that allen wrench in there on that captains tray... get ya a set of ball end 45⁰ angle bondhus allen wrenches. You wont be disappointed! Super handy for thr tight and awkward to reach spots stig. Use them everyday on cnc machine maintenance.

Stig, can you do a complete engine start and shut down on each engine you service? I so can’t wait for your next videos. I’m so jealous.

The shutterspeed of that video footage of those GE90’s on that 777 looked epic. You could see the individual blades spinning.

I just got my A&P and im currently working on PC12s and 24s, its really nice to see your experience in the airlines, makes me exited to eventually move on to them.

i hear ya on the 777 love. it’s a visually striking plane, which is saying a lot given the high bar set by its predecessor, the Queen.

I truly enjoy your videos! I love all aspects of aviation! I’m aspiring airline pilot working on my pilot certificates and ratings. Thanks a lot!

And there’s me thinking you slapping the throttles is like someone picking up a power drill and pulling the trigger as if to say, ‘yeah, I got this’ 😂 just come across your channel and so pleased I can learn and see things from an expert mechanics point of view. Keep ‘em coming!

39:19 I like the pause to look for the winglets to see if it was a DC-10 or MD-11. At least that was the way I learned to differentiate between them. Ramp work is really cool. Thank you for taking us along.

awesome!!!!!!

Another good one.

Hi stig love your videos love your videos for doing stuff like that tray table Harbor Freight has a set by icon I think you would use it a lot

New subscriber👍🏻 absolutely love these detailed videos. Im an avgeek myself and will hopefully soon get my a&p

Geez, you're so knowledgeable!

Another cool video Stig! Myself being an obsessed car guy I can truly appreciate those works of art. Just amazing! I heard you on one of your previous videos that you were an auto technician prior to getting into aviation. Guess what I was too... I told you we must have come from the same mold... LOL

Thanks for helping my memory to reinvigorate the greatness of the old days; someday, please show a 777 IRP in it's 'native location', and should you venture into the hellhole..... Much thanks, Happy Holiday's, too!! (gotta luv those Dreamliner Flight Decks!!)

I remember when Jeremy raced this to Oslo. You did well on the fast lap though.

I've just happened upon your channel.... very nice! Count me as a new subscriber! I thought I knew a lot about aircraft and airport ops... but I learned several things in just this one video. Also.... nice catch of AF1 🇺🇸

Holy ****! An LFA! I remember Jeremy driving that, too. What a car. I remember Jeremy saying that Lexus/Toyota took a loss with every car sold because the car’s development was so expensive. Each of the 500 production cars was $375,000.

Thank you Stig! I needed that! The only thing missing was the smell of kerosene…;-)

Ex-Jet Mech here. Great content….brings back great memories of when I worked Flightline 1986-1994. Just so ya know, ETOPS stands for Engines Turn Or People Swim! I worked for UAL when ETOPS was implemented. That was in the day of 3 and 4 engine Airliners!

I was LAX based captain on the 777 for about a year and a half. Thank you for all the great mx inspections and repairs you did to keep my long, over water, flights safe.

Man that 777 is a beast!

My brother in law was a aviation mechanic I believe electronics on AirForce One for 8 years he loved that gig

Babe wake up a new stig shift dropped