daveSanborn
Active Member
.... and today my patience paid off.
As some of you may know I work as a civilian contractor supporting Naval aviation, specifically the Marines Harrier program. Before retiring from the Marines I worked on the Harrier for 12 years.
Today my USGOV counterpart asked me to go the "scrapyard" to find $1.5mil worth of items (6 total items) that were inadvertantly disposed of (it happens more than we should probably talk about here). After a couple minutes of walking through a wharehouse I found his items and arranged to have them reclaimed into his custody. While I was standing next to a large open dumpster type container full of busted up scrap metal reporting my success to him via cell phone, I noticed the below laying in the scrap bin.
The picture shows the item laying on it's side on the trunk of my car (cigarettes thrown in for size reference). It's the throttle assembly for a Harrier. This item has had it's share of problems and we've upgraded them a few times over the years, but I've never been able to actually catch one that's being thrown out. Today was my lucky day. If you went to Boeing and had to buy a new one these, plan on selling your house to pay for it.
I've got a few ideas for what I'm going to do with it... one of which is to somehow incorporate into the tap handle of my kegerator so that when you "apply power".... beer dispenses from the keg.
As some of you may know I work as a civilian contractor supporting Naval aviation, specifically the Marines Harrier program. Before retiring from the Marines I worked on the Harrier for 12 years.
Today my USGOV counterpart asked me to go the "scrapyard" to find $1.5mil worth of items (6 total items) that were inadvertantly disposed of (it happens more than we should probably talk about here). After a couple minutes of walking through a wharehouse I found his items and arranged to have them reclaimed into his custody. While I was standing next to a large open dumpster type container full of busted up scrap metal reporting my success to him via cell phone, I noticed the below laying in the scrap bin.
The picture shows the item laying on it's side on the trunk of my car (cigarettes thrown in for size reference). It's the throttle assembly for a Harrier. This item has had it's share of problems and we've upgraded them a few times over the years, but I've never been able to actually catch one that's being thrown out. Today was my lucky day. If you went to Boeing and had to buy a new one these, plan on selling your house to pay for it.
I've got a few ideas for what I'm going to do with it... one of which is to somehow incorporate into the tap handle of my kegerator so that when you "apply power".... beer dispenses from the keg.
