AEROSPACE MAINTENANCE COMPETITION
Safety Wiring (Sponsored by Aventure Aviation) This event tested each participant’s skill and speed while accomplishing a series of safety wire patterns. Event winner: Team Alaska
Cockpit and Wing Sealant (Sponsored by PPG Aerospace) Teams had to complete a circuit of sealing 12 overhead fasteners. Six fasteners had to be sealed by hand, six had to be sealed by cap. Mechanics could only work on one section at a time. They had to complete the hand sealing section before moving on to the cap sealing portion. Event winner: Team Air Canada
Human Factors Exam (Sponsored by Grey Owl Aviation) Technicians took a multiple-choice test on various human factors including the “Dirty Dozen.” Event winner: Team UPS
Airworthiness Documentation Review (Sponsored by ASA)
This event tested the team’s ability to spot issues in documentation that commonly accompanies aircraft parts. This is the sort of documentation that is important to the airworthiness determinations made by aircraft parts installers. Event winner: Team Air China
Composite Skill (Sponsored by Abaris Training) This skill event was based on an elevated high temperature, vacuum bagged, composite repair scenario. Each team of two was provided a work packet which included; Job card, repair ply material, bleeder/ breather kits, and vacuum bag. Since no grinding of fiberglass/carbon fiber was allowed in the competition area, the repair panel was assumed to be ready for layup. Mixing of resin in the competition area was also not allowed, repair plies were laid up dry. A vacuum source was available along with all needed hoses/ports/fittings etc. A HEATCON single zone hot
bonder was be pre-programmed, but teams needed to start the cure cycle. This skill event ended with the start of the printer on the bonder. Event winner: Team Air China
Space Vehicle – Vacuum Loading Operation (Sponsored by SpaceTEC) This event simulated the loading of a small quantity of a hazardous commodity from a holding tank into a space vehicle flight tank. Each team consisted of two individuals who were required to don the proper PPE, assemble a mobile fluid transfer station per schematic and transfer 200 grams of a commodity from a holding tank to a flight tank using a vacuum loading operation. A command/response protocol needed to be followed when completing the operation. Upon completion of the fluid transfer all system lines were evacuated using compressed air and disassembled from the station. Event winner: Team Utah State
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Pneumatic/Hydraulic Lines and Fittings (Sponsored by National Aviation Academy) This event tested each team’s ability to fabricate replacement rigid lines and to identify a possible leak in a low pressure gaseous oxygen system using acceptable methods, techniques & practices as outlined in AC 43-13-1B CHG 1, Chapter 9. Event winner: Salt Lake College Team Yellow
NDT (Sponsored by AAR) Teams competed by using NDT methods to detect cracks on test pieces. Teams followed a written procefure to locate defect using the magnetic particle method. Event winner: Team FedEx Team 1
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Weight and Balance (Sponsored by Indian Hills Community College) This event challenged the competitor’s ability to properly calculate and aircraft’s weight and balance. Event winner: Team Indian Hills (Team Indian Hills stepped aside since they helped develop the event, and
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