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I was at the Pima Air & Space Museum yesterday and saw a perfectly preserved radial engine with the maintenance logs still attached.

It's a small thing, but seeing that detailed, handwritten logbook from the 1950s next to the engine it tracked really hit home about the history of our trade, and has anyone else found an old piece of documentation that gave you a new respect for the work?
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reese_chen
That's a cool find. My grandpa kept similar logs for every truck he ever owned, just a simple notebook with dates and what he fixed. Seeing someone's handwriting from that long ago makes the work feel more personal, doesn't it? What kind of plane was the engine from?
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tyler_stone44
Ever find old notes in a library book?
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