Stig Shift #15 (Aircraft Maintenance Adventures)

One of my favorite channels on YouTube, period. It's not just that you're a good mechanic, or a good teacher, or a good poet/writer, a good narrator, a good philosopher, or even a good cinematographer. It's that sense of humor, reflective nature, insatiable curiosity, and above all, kindness. Gentleness. Humility. Gratitude. You're a good human, Stiggie. A good human with a great and growing channel, I might add!

I said it once and I'll say it again stig, I wait ALL week for your videos. I look forward to them every single time. It's the highlight of my week!

I went to A&P school studying large aircraft. I ended up following another career path. I am not patient by nature and would have made a poor mechanic. Watching Stig and others who truly love aviation reminds me of how amazing these aircraft and technicians are. Rock on Stig and the crews that clean and maintain these amazing birds.

The Mercedes at 11:00 is even more special than 'just' being a black series. It's a special edition for customers that have ordered the AMG ONE and they got it as an apology for the long delays in the cars development. The star pattern is also allegedly hand painted. Not the worst apology gift if you ask me. The wrapped up 911 is a restomod from a company called Singer. Basically an old 911 with modern mechanics. Insanely expensive but probably the best 911 money can buy from that generation.

Hey Stig. Still absolutely love your videos. Even my wife loves them. And she never once wanted to watch an aviation video in my 18 years of flying jets.😂😂 I also show your videos occasionally as a treat to my general aviation high school class and they love it, too. You are doing amazing work.

Your videos have helped me fall in love with the idea of becoming an aircraft mechanic. Now if I were 20 years younger!

My 2 year old is absolutely obsessed with this video. She watches it and/or listens to it about 3 times a day. Sometimes she wants to skip straight to the night time part. Other times she just wants to watch the cockpit stuff. And other times she just wants to watch all the shots of the turbines and pretend she’s controlling them with the Xbox controller. I couldn’t tell you why she latched onto this but I’m not complaining!! 😂Thank you Stig shift!! 🥰

Some say…that he moonlights as an American Airlines line mechanic at LAX; and that he may, possibly, be involved with someone named “Plastic Princess.” All we know is……..he’s called The Stig!

Hey man. I’m an AMT working in ATL. Watching these videos really makes me remember why I love working in aviation. Keep doing what you’re doing man. I love your videos.

Hi Stig, when I was flying on 7LT last week your videos inspired me to clean the sink in one of the lavs that had towel debris in the drain area. All fixed!!!

Hey Stig! Thank you so much for inspiring me to be an aircraft maintenance mechanic. I am from Brazil. You're awesome and your videos as well! Can you talk a little about how long is your shift and how many days you work in a week? Thanks again :D

Other than my genuine interest, watching this channel, makes you a total flex when you’re sitting at the gate waiting to board your plane and drone on useless facts to your wife and other people take notice that you’re the smartest guy😊

Stig…Nothing better then warm galley cookies. I’d meet an Alaska flight every night at midnight and the Flight Attendants always found a way to hide one for me. Every now and then I’d find a warm Rosoto with Wildmushrooms bowl…great midnight snack

You can describe something a million times, but it’s still always fun for me. Got me some brain damage/memory issues due to illness a few years ago. Your enthusiasm is contagious - I start smiling at “Gooooooood Morning, everybody!” I’ve followed aviation for almost 59 years now. Your videos are the first - and finest - ones that explains how things work in terms a layman can understand. I’ll be back to LAX from LAS in June for Kevin and Rudy’s 24 hour live stream at The H. I’ll wave at ya - I’ll need a long arm though - flying in on Delta. Thank you and be safe out there, Stig.

I failed to mention in my previous post that cars drew my son to your channel…. A McClaren here and an exotic car there and soon you have someone hooked on the primary content. It’s fun seeing a 13 year old start to gain knowledge. He never used to notice a contrail over the rural areas we live. Now, he is the first to say “dad, it’s a clear sky today, what planes will fly over us”. Keep up the good work, my man. The quality of your presentation is not lost on kids who see too much non-quality presentation on social media.

Dear Stig, don’t you forgot something? I’ll give you some clues: triple 7 left seat… the tiller… 😂 I want to ask you why you call the B787 “the plastic princess”. I have a rough idea why but I prefer your answer. As always, your adventure video is THE event of the week. Gracias!!!!!!🤩

11:27 An AMG GT Black series like that one sold for $775,000 last year. You were probably thinking about the AMG One

I’m nowhere near intelligent enough to understand half the stuff you talk about, but still find it absolutely fascinating and glad I stumbled across your channel……..keep up the good work. Regards from the UK 👍🏻

Hey Stig, Big fan. Keep up the good work. I have a question, next week I got exam on module 15 for EASA. Just wondering if you can give me some pointers on what to look out for or maybe show some vids on turbo prop, turbo fan apu and such. Hopefully you can help.

Love your channel Stig! My father was an aircraft mechanic for 35yrs, he wants to know if you know what a "rubber jungle" is. He was in maintenance control with USAirways working the airbus line when he retired just before the AA merger. Who knows, you may have even talked to him.