MANAGEMENT IN AVIATION HISTORY BENCH MARKS
Department, Gus Ririe, soon added Anholzer to his staff which traveled to learn more about aircraft and engine components at Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, and the Air Force. “My model building experience led to and became a big part of my job.
We laid out the work on paper, and built models of buildings, machines and engine test cells.” By 1960 PAA chose New York’s
JFK Airport as their main overhaul base for the “Jet Age”. Construction was based upon the scale model
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Anholzer’s team built of buildings, hangars, and taxi ways. When the facility was completed, Anholzer became Assistant Foreman in the shops, but returned to the Planning department each time PAA purchased diff erent engines and aircraft, including the Boeing 747. Anholzer’s fi rst image of the giant aircraft was a scale drawing which left him gasping, “All the facilities around the world had just become obsolete to handle such a large airplane.” Eventually Anholzer became manager of PAA’s Design Engineer group for the new maintenance and overhaul base at JFK Airport. He was then assigned to build an aircraft service maintenance dock. “This [dock] was to surround the 747 with scaff olding for the inspectors and mechanics to reach every part of the aircraft under service. The project would cost $2.5 million.
When we pulled the fi rst 747 into
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the service dock, the whole hanger crew stopped work to see it fi t. My stomach was doing back fl ips as I ran around the airplane checking various clearances from all levels of the dock. It fi t like a glove.” “Hank” Anholzer, the “Boat Man” mechanic and maintenance dock builder retired from PAA in the 1970s. He continued to make model airplanes and volunteer at aviation museums to restore vintage aircraft.
Giacinta Bradley Koontz
is an aviation historian, magazine columnist and author who has received the
DAR History Medal and honorable mention from the New York Book Festival. She has appeared on the History Channel and in PBS documentaries. For more information, visit
www.GiaBKoontz.com.
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