01/2011 | Highly motivated apprentices in Auburn
Instead of the alternative of working on exercise objects in the Hamburg training workshop, for three weeks from either 30 August to 17 September and from 6 to 27 October respectively, the third-year apprentices provided energetic support to the Bizjet Auburn team working on the Lockheed L-1649A.
The visitors from Hamburg exhibited great motivation as they got down to work on their assigned work packages. Under the direction of the local Super Star team and two instructors who had traveled with them, they now had the opportunity to demonstrate what they had previously learned in the classroom and in the training workshop in real structural work on the Super Star. As Roland Albrecht, Master Aircraft Mechanic and one of the instructors who had traveled with them, reported: “For our apprentices, the stay in Auburn not only added to their capabilities but it also provided splendid confirmation of the knowledge they had already acquired, which they demonstrated every day during the ongoing maintenance work. At the same time, for many of the apprentices it was their first extended trip to an English-speaking country such as the USA. But they dealt with this challenge brilliantly too.”
As well as working directly on the aircraft which will fly again in the future, mostly performing structural work on the fuselage, they also devoted themselves to preparing the second Super Star parked outside the hangar in Auburn for the winter.
As if the trip to the USA and the opportunity to work on this unique restoration project was not motivation enough, the second team’s dates coincided with a visit to Auburn by August Wilhelm Henningsen, Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik. Henningsen took the opportunity to acknowledge the commitment and technical competence of the apprentices, the first of whom will finish their training this summer. Reviewing the trip, Albrecht commented: “These three weeks were an extremely positive experience for the apprentices, and I hope that future intakes will also have the opportunity for a highlight like this during their training.” As well as the 17 apprentices who worked on the Lockheed last summer and autumn, groups of four to five apprentices from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich have regularly visited Maine for about a month at a time since the start of the project.
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The visitors from Hamburg exhibited great motivation as they got down to work on their assigned work packages. Under the direction of the local Super Star team and two instructors who had traveled with them, they now had the opportunity to demonstrate what they had previously learned in the classroom and in the training workshop in real structural work on the Super Star. As Roland Albrecht, Master Aircraft Mechanic and one of the instructors who had traveled with them, reported: “For our apprentices, the stay in Auburn not only added to their capabilities but it also provided splendid confirmation of the knowledge they had already acquired, which they demonstrated every day during the ongoing maintenance work. At the same time, for many of the apprentices it was their first extended trip to an English-speaking country such as the USA. But they dealt with this challenge brilliantly too.”
As well as working directly on the aircraft which will fly again in the future, mostly performing structural work on the fuselage, they also devoted themselves to preparing the second Super Star parked outside the hangar in Auburn for the winter.
As if the trip to the USA and the opportunity to work on this unique restoration project was not motivation enough, the second team’s dates coincided with a visit to Auburn by August Wilhelm Henningsen, Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik. Henningsen took the opportunity to acknowledge the commitment and technical competence of the apprentices, the first of whom will finish their training this summer. Reviewing the trip, Albrecht commented: “These three weeks were an extremely positive experience for the apprentices, and I hope that future intakes will also have the opportunity for a highlight like this during their training.” As well as the 17 apprentices who worked on the Lockheed last summer and autumn, groups of four to five apprentices from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich have regularly visited Maine for about a month at a time since the start of the project.
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