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Imagine sitting for 416 consecutive days in exactly the same place. Chief Aviation Mechanic Raul Addoms doesn't have to. Addoms, a flight engineer with VQ-2, the EP-3E ARIES II unit at Rota, Spain, reached the 10,000-flight-hour milestone in April. Although flight engineers garner more flight hours than most other crew members, the milestone is still a rarity. Flight engineers also act as the senior maintenance person and generally the senior air crewman aboard. With well over twenty-four years of service to his credit, Addoms has been around the world as a P-3 flight engineer, from Hawaii to Guam, Whidbey Island, and Jacksonville, before reporting to Rota.
Photo By PM2 Michael Sandberg
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