Start your engines: Jet Shop mechanics keep aircraft flying

As part of the engine change stand is slowly hoisted up to the engine, Senior Airman Robert Duncan, 605th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, and Senior Airman Rafael Lopez, 714th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, steady the cart into place March 6. Once the cart is attached and ready to support the engine, the maintainers then remove the six engine mount bolts -- the only thing holding an engine to the aircraft -- and lower the cart back down to the wheeled base with the bad engine. The reverse is done with a good engine. An engine change, from start to finish with engine drop to operational check, takes three days. (U.S. Air Force photo/Wayne Russell)

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