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How Jenny Tung brings an expert’s touch to Air Canada. Airliner lavatories clog up more often than you think. Just ask Jenny Tung, an aircraft maintenance engineer with Air Canada, based in Vancouver. She is intimately familiar with the toilets in the air and it is her responsibility to ensure they keep on flushing. Jet lavatories – along with headphone jacks, seat-back adjustment buttons and entertainment system screens – are among the most touched, and most frequently used items aboard any commercial aircraft, she says. She is a plumber, mechanic, carpenter, technician, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) engineer, electrician and cleaner, all rolled into one. Call her an aircraft whisperer. “I don’t feel like I go to work every day,” says Tung. “I feel like I’m going out to play with the airplanes.” Source: FlightGlobal.com |
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Zara Rutherford becomes youngest woman to fly the world solo. Teenage aviator Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo. The 19-year-old, who has dual British-Belgian nationality, landed at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium on Thursday January 20, 2022 , completing an epic 41-country journey spanning over 52,000 kilometers (32,300 miles), and broke two Guinness World Records in the process. She is also the first Belgian to fly around the world alone. However, the teenager's route to glory hasn't been without its challenges. When Rutherford departed on August 18, 2021 in a bespoke Shark ultralight aircraft, she believed her aerial escapade would take about three months. Refer to our article in NetLetter #1469 under 'Women in Aviation' which tells of the preparations for this challenge. Mission completed, but she was plagued by setbacks, including month-long delays in both Alaska and Russia due to "visa and weather issues," pushing her schedule back eight weeks. Source: CNN Travel |
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