Where in the world is Madcap79?

Madcap79 · Feb 27, 2014

Challenger 601 cockpit and the loaner and customer engine next to each other. We'll be hanging the engine tomorrow.

Madcap79 · Mar 1, 2014

Installed a couple of BR710's after the CF34 engine change. A shot of one in the build up stand and then both engines installed but not hooked up. Clocked 72 hours so far this week. Gotta go in tomorrow to finish up. Hope to fly home tomorrow night, weather permitting.

Madcap79 · Mar 2, 2014

Listening to Atom Heart Mother and some Sigur Ros while sipping a latte and waiting for my flight. Plus some bonus pics from this week.

Madcap79 · Mar 19, 2014

I've been slacking. My apologies to anyone who cares. Haha. In Dallas, my home away from home. Fly from here to Tucson tomorrow. I had a traditional Irish meal for St. Patricks Day, huevos rancheros. Haha. I did have some Jameson to make up for it. I'll get some more pics up but here's my feast. Cheers!

Madcap79 · Mar 28, 2015

Almost a year to the day, let's try this again. Fuck it, why not. Hanging a CF34 in Ottawa KS from last year. Hopefully the pic uploads correctly.

SSVUN~YAH · Mar 28, 2015

Had to play some jams to your return and peruse this nice thread!
:rockon:

Rock On @Madcap79 :rockon:

CarolKing · Mar 28, 2015

Madcap you are lucky you don't have to take a drug test with your job. There are so many jobs here in Washington state that require drug tests even if you are not working on big pieces of aircraft equipment. You sure do look like you have a fun life and an interesting job. Enjoy! :leaf:

Awesome pics :cool:

Madcap79 · Mar 28, 2015

SSVUN~YAH said:
Had to play some jams to your return and peruse this nice thread!
Rock On @Madcap79

Thank you sir! For all the likes too!

@CarolKing
I do get randoms.......

KidFated. · Mar 28, 2015

I've missed this thread, glad to see you back at it madcap!

Madcap79 · Mar 28, 2015

Thanks everyone for the kind words and likes. I just happened to be passing the stadium of the KC Royals during the World Series last year so I snapped a shitty pic. Haha.

Madcap79 · Mar 29, 2015

Unloading some old (from last year) photos. Bear with me. This TFE731 had a bad day. A low pressure turbine blade one stage upstream decided to let go and took out the stage after it. Pilot didn't shut the engine down until they landed. Enjoy.

t-dub · Mar 29, 2015

How aircraft parts hold up as well as they do under spin amazes me. I know there have been catastrophic failures like UA 232 which sticks out in my mind at the moment.

Madcap79 · Mar 29, 2015

t-dub said:
How aircraft parts hold up as well as they do under spin amazes me. I know there have been catastrophic failures like UA 232 which sticks out in my mind at the moment.

Yeah, it really is amazing the amount of stress the parts inside go through. Failures do happen but they are not too common. These things go through ridiculous amounts of testing before they are released into the wild. Amazing engineering and they let mindless apes like myself work on them. Haha!

2clicker · Mar 29, 2015

Madcap79 said:
Yeah, it really is amazing the amount of stress the parts inside go through. Failures do happen but they are not too common. These things go through ridiculous amounts of testing before they are released into the wild. Amazing engineering and they let mindless apes like myself work on them. Haha!

hilarious. and im never flying again

jk

Madcap79 · Mar 29, 2015

Well, I work on private jets so........Fly an airline. Hehe.

Madcap79 · Mar 31, 2015

Former owner of the Dolphins Gulfstream. The hangar floor was painted like a football field. Ha!

Madcap79 · Apr 5, 2015

A double BR710 change we did in Van Nuys CA earlier last year.

Madcap79 · Apr 6, 2015

I was lucky enough to be involved in the first Rolls Royce BR710 engine pull for our company. It was the engine I was hired to work on. That and the GE CF34. Anyway, who cares. I'm babbling. Damn Herbie. Enjoy!

Madcap79 · Apr 7, 2015

Here is a Gulfstream 3 with 'hush kits' in Toluca Mexico. They have Rolls Royce Spey engines. Loud as fuck! Old technology. Cheers!

Madcap79 · Apr 16, 2015

Hello all. It's been a bit. Here are a few picture of what I did on Monday and Tuesday in sunny south Florida. Still down here working on other shit. I'll try to post more pic but uploading them to tinypic is a pain in the ass. Replaced a fan case on a Challenger 601 CF34 engine because it had a decent chunk of abraidable material missing on the fan shroud. Got to work outside on the ramp the whole time. Enjoy!

underdog · Nov 15, 2017

Madcap79 said:
I seem to have deleted a couple of my pics. Oops.

Damn I love the look of aerospace forgings! Awesome thread dude and super interesting, looking forward to lots more posts!

FlyingLow · Nov 16, 2017

Living the dream!

HellsWindStaff · Nov 22, 2017

I love this thread

NinjaMindTriks · Nov 23, 2017

He hasn't posted here since 2015! @Madcap79 Where are you?

Madcap79 · Nov 27, 2017

I abandoned this out of pure laziness and the 6 months have been a bit crazy for me so I haven’t been on the site at all lately. I’ll see if I can breath new life into the thread since people have show interest.

Here’s a boring one to start off with.

Something isn’t right here..... Wrong bolt ordered. Oops. :doh:

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