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05-30 · RECORD 3 OF 4
Time Between Overhaul
The one everyone points to. Also the longest gap they were willing to tolerate.
- 01Density Altitude3:56
- 02Crosswind Component3:44
- 03Time Between Overhaul4:07
Lyrics (reference only)
Mr. Albrecht brings the V-tail in, he bought it new in sixty-eight Seventeen hundred since they split the case, the book says that's the date He asks me if it's finished. I say, "Ninety-One. It's yours to call. The number is a reason to look. It isn't a law." All six cylinders in the seventies over eighty on the gauge Oil came back from the lab and the iron numbers held their range I cut the filter on the bench and spread the pleats out in the light Nothing caught it. I signed the book. He flew it home that night. Time between overhaul Seventeen hundred in the book Not a law and not a promise Just a number and a reason to look Total time keeps counting Since major starts again Every fifty hours he brought it in, and every time the pleats were clean Till nineteen-twelve on the tach and there was something in the seams I put a magnet to it, and the magnet held it. Steel. The engine wrote its own entry. That's the only date that's real. Engine removed for overhaul. Tach time, nineteen-twelve point four. Reason for removal: ferrous metal in the oil filter. D. Krantz, A and P. It came back zero since major and it ran up smooth on the stand He flew it one more summer, then he sold it to a younger man He signed the bill of sale with a hand that wasn't steady anymore The logbooks went along with it. The total time went out the door. Time between overhaul Seventeen hundred in the book Not a law and not a promise Just a number and a reason to look Total time keeps counting Since major starts again For the engine Not the men Not the men.