Welcome to the FTL Mech. Blog

This blog is dedicated to all the mechanics and other maintenance personnel that ever worked for FTL during it's existence, 1946-1989.  Posting on this blog is not restricted to mechanics, anyone that worked for FTL may post a story, memory or an interesting experience.  The purpose of the blog is to share these stories with other former employees of this great company we worked at, or anybody that is interested in reading Tiger tales of our many unique experiences.

This blog is also dedicated to Al St. Pierre, since it was an email about his recent passing away that is responsible for it's creation.  Al was a fellow mechanic and a fellow brother in arms, as many of us remember stories he told about experiences in Vietnam.  And finally, many of you guys also fit both categories, so here's to you!

Some guidelines for posting on this blog, no political or religious discussions, no personal attacks on anyone and no bashing of anyone.  Let's leave those things behind us and concentrate on stories of the many great times we all shared at the LAX hangar and the many FTL line stations.  In writing a story, write it like you're sharing it with the guys you worked with, back in the Good Old Days, but also how you would want your grandchildren to read your story, because they may.  In writing these stories, we're writing history and this may be the only place they could read about how it was and the working conditions that grandpa or grandma, experienced working for the all cargo airline, Flying Tigers. This will probably be the only place most of those stories will ever be written down.