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Mohammad Taher

Feb 21, 2025

2:44
What can you tell us about that kind of jump into aviation as a career?
2:49
yeah it was walking out that day at martial aerospace i i knew one thing and one thing only like if i was going to set a trajectory it was something to do with aviation and something to do with engineering so i looked online and aerospace engineering at uni just felt like the right thing to do so an aerospace engineering degree i've done that at bruno university just uh the west of london uh And during my placement year, so two years in the degree, then one year out in industry, I applied to Lufthansa Technik.
3:19
So Lufthansa Technik is an MRO facility where they do landing gear maintenance and overhaul.
3:24
So before I even joined Heathrow, my first ever sort of taste of the aviation sector was straight into an MRO facility.
3:31
And when I told you I'd walk around this site, right, You'd look at these massive wooden crates that are getting wheeled into this facility.
3:38
They open up the crate and you see this greasy, dirty landing gear that's been used.
3:45
And I'd like to say the word used and abused, but you know, I mean, they get used, right? They're hard, right? These things are taking that brute force of landings day in, day out.

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So I'll tell you the

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