Found Aircraft's Andrew Hamblin Talks About The Bush Hawk On Today's ANN Special Report

Anytime we get to learn about a new type of airplane -- or learn something new about an aircraft we thought we knew everything about -- it's very enjoyable. Senior Correspondent Kevin O'Brien knows at least a little (often a great deal more) about most any airplane out there... but even he learned a thing or two about the Found Bush Hawk (below) from Andrew Hamblin, on the flight line at Peter O. Knight Airport during AOPA Expo 2005.

"There were incompletely installed engines in the shop with parts hanging from them, which in itself is not alarming, but there was no paperwork anywhere to document what was supposed to be happening with the engines... [a manager] said some were going onto live aircraft and others back to the leasing company for major overhaul or disposal, but there was no paperwork to identify which was which. In addition to that, the right tools for the jobs they were assigned were unavailable." Source: AMFA National Safety and Standards Director John Glynn, speaking to the Memphis Business Journal about two strikebreakers who crossed picket lines in the three-month old Northwest mechanics strike, but then quit the carrier again when they found what Glynn calls "serious