At the installation ceremonies at Uvdar-Hazy, I was introduced to Joe Escobar, the editor of Aircraft Maintenance Technology Magazine who subsequently offered me a columnist position on his staff.  My column is entitled “Past Contact! Mechanics in Aviation History.” - Giacinta Bradley Koontz

 Aircraft Maintenance Technology Magazine 

 www.amtonline.com
Click on the “Article Archives” for the entire issue for each month.

"Shorty and the Gnome" - Rudolph William Schroeder (1885 - 1952)

"The Engine Whisperer" - Mary H. Solbrig , Mechanician.

"Little Katie Stinson" - Coveralls and kimonos. (pencil drawing by Michael Aten)

** See pg. 52, Gia Koontz to receive
History Award from
the Daughters of the American Revolution. **

October 2007

Part II - "Bert Kinner - The Ups and Downs  - His Aircraft and Power Plants."
Part II of II.

September 2007 Cover story!

“Bert Kinner: Mechanical Wizard”
Part I of II. [Part II will appear in AMT October 2007]

July 2007

“A Penny for your Thoughts...on an engine....”
(A Pratt & Whitney tradition — Since when?)

May 2007

“Repairs in the Air”
(about the 1919 flight around the perimeter of the USA)

Online issue only.  "T'was the Night before Christmas at Pratt & Whitney.   The story of Frederick Brant Rentschler and Wasp engine No. 1".

April 2007

“Alaska's 1930s Bush Pilots and Mechanics”

January 2007

“A Ryan for a Lion”
(Restoring a famous aircraft in Arizona)

March 2007

“More than Amelia's Mechanic” 
(about E.E. Tissot, Sr.)

October 2006

“Finding Charlie's Grave”
(about the Portal of the Folded Wings)