Stig Shift #8 (29DEC23-31DEC23) New Year Special 

Design engineer here. Speaking from my experience, designs are often influenced by many factors and people within an organization, which may differ from the designers own desire. First time watcher. This is amazing, thanks for showing us all this.

I love that you CAN make these videos and clearly, there's no objection from FAA or local bodies. Super awesome!

Hands down one of the very best aviation related channels. Thank you for your service.

Man Stig I hope you can continue making these videos for a long long time. Watching these videos are the highlight of my day and you do a masterful job at putting these all together and the end result shows in a spectacular fashion. You bring me such joy and happiness and I can't thank you enough brother.

Hey Sir! As part of the fAAmily, us guys up front have the world of respect for our maintenance brothers. Without you guys and your hard work, we wouldn’t have jobs. For that, we are grateful. 🤙 Have a great new year! CLT/737/FO/I

Thank you Stig for these great reflections on your work and surroundings. Happy 2024.

Brilliant Fantastic Stig ! G-YMML is one of only two British Airways aircraft to be painted in a special livery, now that it has retired all its Boeing 747-400s. It was created specially to fly the UK’s delegation into Shanghai’s Great Festival of Creativity. The livery features intricate Western impressionist art combined with Chinese ink-and-wash paint techniques. Designed by Chinese fashion designer Masha Ma, it depicts interwoven bamboo stems and roses, both extremely important symbols in Chinese and British culture respectively. Graham west of London UK. [ Chartered Engineer ]

As an aircraft Mechanic I 100% agree with you on the engineering, some of the designs they come up with makes you scratch your head.

Gosh, you are not doing enough? You are literally saving lives every week! While making super content for your viewers... That is a Lot!

Blinker fluid , and remember to change out either winter air or summer air in the tires . Winter air in the summer makes the tires sweat and summer air will freeze up in the winter . Winter air remains cold and summer air will be warm . Please use full synthetic blinker fluid . Helps the blinkers to become brighter . Living in Wisconsin , we change out the tire air every fall and spring . I worked in a welding shop for 38 years , retired in 2022 . We have had this same issue with parts not opening , closing , hand clearance , etc . My assembly line was Digital Printing Equipment . designed mainly on CAD . we had assemblies that we could not put together cause we could not get our hand in the area to get at the hardware. Our design Engineers told us CAD shows we should be able to get our hands in there . We had to get them out to our floor and show them

Thanks Mister Stig, Happy 2024 to you! Your enthusiasim and dedication to your craft is freakin' contagious. American is very fortunate to have such an A+P guy like you!

Amazingly put together. Hard not to be romantic about commercial aviation. Thank you for bringing us along. Happy New Year!!

One of my favorite parts of flying is getting to talk to the planes I fly because they each have their own little quirks and personalities. The fleet at my school is will maintained thanks to our MX shop. They know each tail as well as we do, and one of our AMTs has been known to sing to them.

I love to learn how stuff works. I also love aviation. Its difficult to find channels and videos where someone pay attention to every single detail and explaining it with passion. I appreciate you sir !

That livery is the BA "Great Festival of Creativity in Shanghai" Boeing 777-236ER G-YMML... Unveiled in 2015, G-YMML is one of only two British Airways aircraft to be painted in a special livery, now that it has retired all its Boeing 747-400s. It was created specially to fly the UK’s delegation into Shanghai’s Great Festival of Creativity. The livery features intricate Western impressionist art combined with Chinese ink-and-wash paint techniques. Designed by Chinese fashion designer Masha Ma, it depicts interwoven bamboo stems and roses, both extremely important symbols in Chinese and British culture respectively.

I learnt so much about airplanes from your videos and its very fun to watch

Hey Stig! The trash bin position on the R1 door. This is probably due to a trash bin not being accessed during flight but being used during normal operations and just to use all space in the AC. Could you imagine if this is where they put the portable O2 bottles or First Aid Kit. The big drawback I can see is if this became a potential fire hazard. I wonder what the procedure is for a fire in the this trash bin. Could be an interesting exercise for the Flight and Cabin Crew. I take it there is no access from the bulkhead. Never seen much Airbus except as a passenger. Flew on a USAir one back in 2013-2014. Staff were knowing the end was near which made it a little uncomfortable. That old merger with America West put the nail in the coffin. Go No Go items like cabin flashlights, certain bulbs and first aid kit seals are fun. Curious as you seem at ease with all aircraft yet some of your contemporaries don't like certain aircraft like working the 737max and the E190. I heard one AME call it the E180 because it always came back to the gate. Maybe you take it in stride as if to say "that's why I'm here!" Livery on BA G-YMML is called "Shanghai's Great Festival of Creativity" marking roses and bamboo to represent British and Chinese Culture. Basically a marketing gimmick for its target cities in China mostly for business passengers.

Incredibly fascinating for a transportation nerd!

It’s interesting that the B787 doesn’t use bleed air for pressurization, I guess you learn something new every day

Most interesting and informative avgeek channel on RU-vid. Good stuff 👍

22:15 Haha! I was going to ask you about that noise! Stig is ON the case!

Happy new year Stig! Keep these amazing videos coming.

Happy new year Stig! Thanks for great videos!!

Happy New Year My Master, Stig ❤

Thanks for you're content, happy new year brother!

I love your energy and enthusiasm for the line of work your in. You take pride in what you do and keeping hundreds of thousands of people safe in the air 🥰 I'm really enjoying these long uploads!

Happy New Year Stig!!!

You can see someones soul with that flashlight! Happy New Year, stig!

Great video. Happy new year Stig !

Happy New Year Stig! I hope 2024 brings you much happiness and peace 🙏

I love the fun facts. Also, I love when people are passionate about their work! Keep it up!

Absolutely awesome video and your knowledge is so cool of planes, its good to see inside the Aircraft and what it does...

Beautiful !!!! As usual

Thanks for all the great content, Stig!

Happy New Year Stig! As always, loveee these videos! Absolutely love seeing these beautiful pieces of engineering take to the skies and seeing their ins and outs and it's really inspiring to push onto my dream! Keep them coming! Many greetings from Norway!

Gotta love that 747! Happy New Year Stig!

I love your videos man, I get to learn about all the noises and where they come from. At work I hear the A320neo's turbine while it shuts off and kept asking myself why did it change it's sound all of a sudden. Now I know! I'm really enjoying your channel. Thanks for this videos.

Another great video, happy new year! all the best

A great morning is a morning where you wake up and see a new video from stig! Happy holidays!

Happy New Year, Stig!! Thanks for your great work sharing mechanics work in the aviation industry. We are the unsung heroes! No glory but so much pride! 👍

Another great shift. I keep learning every single time I watch your videos. Thank you. It has been a great 2023 and I can't wait to see what you get up to in 2024. Happy new year.

Love your videos. Mad respect for your energy and knowledge. Great job on these videos. New subscriber here for sure. Happy new year from the east coast

Happy New Year Stig and thank you, great watching and so informative

Many thanks for the aviation insight , happy new year

Happy New Year!!

A fantastic video to end the year on. I’m so glad I found your channel and I look forward to many more videos from you in the new year. You do a great job! Oh yeah, and keep doing the dad jokes! Your humor is one of the best parts of each of you video’s!

Cool fact regarding that special Plane Livery. The Pandas Livery is a 1-3 plane, with a total order of 10 coming. The Pandas featured on the Livery are representative of the 8 pandas that the airline adopted and sponsored care of from the Chengdu giant panda research base and breeding program in China. The Sichuan province of china is also considered the home of the giant panda, so the Sichuan airlines panda livery is also representative of their namesake. The Whole interior of the panda livery a350’s are all decked with panda themes too, And when the panda line (direct flight from Beijing to Chengdu, China) was first introduced, the Air stewards/stewardesses would have panda based costumes to wear for the whole flight too.

These are suuuuper cool. Pls keep doing them!

Great video Sig happy new year keep them flying. And thank you for showing the job we do everyday in line maintenance of these great flying machines .

Happy New to you,and thank you so much for the wonderful videos and your great attitude.i can't wait to some day meet you,May God bless your New Year

You make the best, most interesting videos Stig. I love to watch. 😊

Found your channel as an aviation enthusiast and I am absolutely glued to every minute of your video. Also please dont stop with the dad, jokes, haha! Happy New Year!

I find your content absolutely fascinating. Also glad there's maintenance guys like you, who are on the top of their game.

Awesome video Stig, happy new year! Stig I’m really happy that you are able to make this content which is entertaining and educational. I’m going on my demo flights in Long Beach next Saturday and look forward to enjoying it! Again, great video can’t wait to see more this year.

Stig man! Your knowledge of these aircraft is very impressive. When i fly, i sure hope someone with your professionalism is checking my plane. Excellent job sir!!!

This one was full of great nuggets - even some of the dad jokes. 😂 Happy New Year, Stig! I’m always excited to see your videos pop up in my TikTok, RU-vid or IG feeds - it’s 50 minutes of therapy for us aviation nerds. Thanks again for all you do. I fly your airline almost exclusively and every time I board one of the birds, it makes me feel even safer knowing people like you and your partners are wrenching on them.

happy new year stig

Sir Stig, I really wish we had more maintenance professionals like you joining the Part 23 world. Our little piston slappers need more dedication now than ever before. No one can fake your passion. I'm a huge fan.

These long form vids are the beeeeest. I subbed cuz of these videos

I LOVE YOUR VIDS SO MUCH!!❤

Happy new year Stig, i hope 2024 is a great year for you. Your video's are never boring im always learning something from them and your humour and passion for aviation shines through. I was bitten by the aviation bug at 8 yrs old living near Manchster Airport in th UK i never got the grades to go into aircraft engineering but i have never lost the passion for it avation Photography is my way of being close to airplanes. If i could do my life over the only thing id change is to study harder and become an aircraft engineer. Keep the videos coming Stig and stay safe my friend

Happy New Year! And thank you very much for all the great videos you make. I have been flying since I was 6 yrs old and I have had a lot of questions that you have been answering little by little and getting to see things up close that I have always wanted to see. Thank you so much again!

Happy new year Stig. An all time pleasure following you on your daily work. I’m sitting here smiling when you’re telling about the different stuff on an airplane. Really enjoying it. Keep up the good work. Best regards from Denmark 🇩🇰 😊

HAPPY NEW YEAR BUD!!! GREAT VIDEOES

Blinker fluid. Love it! That's what makes your videos so enjoyable to watch. Love those Stig jokes!

I love your videos and they are entertaining and informative. And thank you to American Airlines for allowing you to show the unsung heroes of the airline industry it’s amazing footage

Flying American on Tuesday out of Portland Oregon. Nice to know guys like you keep these birds healthy! Love the videos. Thanks for putting these out!

Thank you and happy new year

Love your vids. I had to fly out at 5am in that morning storm, what a fun take-off to be honest. That rain and wind going up to 10k feet was just nasty fun to see as a passenger. Anyway, stay safe!!

Love your videos. Your flashlight has a nice long throw.

I do the same job you do except i work for the "enemy." I love watching you videos on my off days because I'm a nerd, new guy, and watch the little things you do so i can learn. Happy new years! Keep the passion strong

Happy New year Bro

New subscriber! This is an addicting channel. While repetitive at times, it's never dull!

Wow... I am always impressed by the things you must know to do your job properly... Deep respect to you and all the people working on the ground. Have wonderful happy new year. Thanks for all the beautiful videos, sooo interesting👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Happy new year ( awesome videos )

love these videos man. Im an aspiring pilot currently working as a ramper at my local airport. Seeing you go into detail about the mechanical side of planes is super intersting. I love it and i think its so important.

This is amazing content! You’re an awesome man, thanks for keeping us safe and while bringing us to be closer to the aviation world!

love these pleas keep posting them

Happy New Year Sir. Just can’t enough of your channel. If I could live my life again I’d be doing exactly what you are doing. After working on cars for 17 years your career is so much better & fulfilling. Wish I could turn back the hands of time. Thank you again.

Who knew that you could get emotional watching an aircraft maintainence video? Stig, you're truely a master of your profession and video production! Here's to a wonderful and prosperous 2024! Thank you!!

Thanks stig. Huge inspiration too all aspiring AMEs including myself. Hoping too get in for winter 2025 beyond excited. Keep it up

Stig, thanks for sharing your expertise and enthusiasm in the work that you do.

Stig, you and your channel are something special. I heard about you through Kevin at Airline Videos 👍 This was an interesting video, and I have subscribed. All the best to you in this new year!

Happy New Year Stig!! One of the best moments of my life was getting to take my wife on a personal tour of a beautiful recently retired 777-200er a couple years ago, getting to show her a tiny little glimpse of what I do and how incredible it is getting to work one airplanes everyday! Really amazing! Engineer’s designs have left me scratching my head and laughing (or cussing) a couple times at well. I’ve been talking with Ryan, hopefully us 3 can get an Oshkosh trip planned! Would love to go with some fellow A&P aviation enthusiasts. Love the videos!

As an aerospace engineer, sometimes it just looks better on paper... lol

Even tho i came across your channel couple months ago I still appreciate what you have done throughout the years and the past year you're right life is full Of obstacles but one day i heard someone saying Life is to short to take it seriously. This and every time i watch your videos and you teaching us along the way is just means a lot Its hard to find a job where im currently but if one day i got lucky And got hired in US airport as a ramp agent I'll definitely come to you and shake your hand:) You have a wonderfull day sir

Happy New Year Stig from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Your videos are awesome, keep doing them! And I have no idea what the BA livery is for 🙈

Stig! New subscriber here…I’ve been really enjoying your videos bro. I haven’t flown much and when I have it’s been smaller 737s and a320s. This past July I went to Italy on an AA 777. I couldn’t believe the size of this thing! We sat above the wing and when I looked out the window I couldn’t believe how big the wing was lol. What an awesome plane! I’m an HVAC technician myself…but working on planes looks way cooler haha! Keep the videos coming and thanks for making sure these planes are safe for us when we’re up there. I love your enthusiasm for your job brother I can tell you love what you do and that is indeed a blessing. Sending much love to you brother and stay safe out there! Happy New Year!

Outstanding every time I watch it. 😊

HNY Sir. Very very interesting videos. God bless you

I too enjoy Stig's vids. I've had no significant exposure to aviation since back in the day when I was an Engineer & Mechanic in the USCG on C-130's in PAC Basin SAR out of Barber's Pt., HI.

I remember when your hanger was new. I visited and was in awe that 4 747's could fit inside. there were a couple in it that day

Love these like usual always wait for the next one Thanks for making these videos I’ve learned so much from your channel and that I thank you for :D. Also any online resources that have a lot of information about aircraft that you can recommend that might not be recommended by google but is publicly accessible?

Happy new year!!!!!!! Hope you had a great one and may your success continue in 2024!!!!!!! Btw 74gear has been promoted to captain now.

Awesome job., awesome personality., awesome videos., plssssss keep it coming

Hey Stig, gooood morning from Brazil - São Paulo. First i'd like to thanks for your vídeos and The way you share so many knowledge to us. I also work in an airline Company and It is so good to see how you do your work with proud, Joy and hapiness every single day.

Great video with a lot of insightful information. Thank you sir!

Excellent video Stig. 😊

Happy new year Stig and thanks for the work you put into making content for us aviation lovers. I live in LA and will be graduating and getting my second license in a few weeks time. I was wondering if you had any advice of how/ where to find work as a new a@p cheers.

Awesome videos very informative stay safe out there