Aviation Maintenance Technician: Powerplant Hardcover - 2011 - 3rd Edition

Dale began his career in the U.S. Navy as a mechanic and flight engineer in PBYs. After World War II, he attended Parks Air College. After college, he worked as an instrument overhaul mechanic, instrument shop manager, and flight test instrumentation engineer. He spent the following 16 years as an instructor, and then became director of an aviation maintenance school.

For the past 30 years, Dale was active as a writer of aviation technical materials and a consultant in developing aviation training programs. He participated with the FAA in the Aviation Mechanic Occupation Study in the 1970s, which was key to the major revision of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 147, and the Aviation Mechanic Textbook Study. ATEC presented to Dale Crane their special recognition award for his contribution to the development of aviation technicians as a prolific author of specialized maintenance publications.

Jerry Lee Foulk:
Jerry Lee Foulk is a LeTourneau University instructor, and an FAA Designated Mechanic Examiner. Jerry Foulk has been an instructor of aviation maintenance since 1976, first at Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics in Pittsburgh, PA, at Moody Aviation in Elizabethton, TN, and currently at LeTourneau University's School of Aeronautical Sciences, Longview, TX, starting in 2003. He earned his Bachelors of Science degrees in Bible and in Aviation Technology from LeTourneau in 1976, and has also been an FAA Designated Mechanic Examiner since 1993. Jerry also was Technical Editor for the Second Edition of ASA's AMTS Powerplant textbook by Dale Crane.