Right now in class we are getting into engines. All year we have been learning little bits and pieces about airplane engines. Now we are really getting into it by completely disassembling and re-assembling an engine. Then we will start it and trouble shoot it. What great experience! I am especially excited about this because I am on a team working on an engine known as the Continental IO 520....a 6 cylinder engine. This is the engine found in the Cessna 206 which is the most common plane that MAF and many other missions fly. So this is most likely the engine I will be flying someday. How cool will it be to have the experience of having taken it apart, studying the engien, and troubleshooting it when we get it back together. I am really blessed to get to do this. Most pilots know the general operational theory about how their engines work, but they do not get this kind of experience. Here is a photo album of some of the engines our class is working on. The first several pictures are of our engine. I am on a team with two other guys, Matt and Jeffrey, working on our engine.
