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April 2013
of any mechanical operation or mechanical
breakdown, a number of component systems
are engaged or activated which have been
designed to assist in all manner of human
exploit. In this instance, there were applica-
tions regulating discharge of fuel or spring
components essential in landing operations
and much more, but all was deployed to help
mitigate what could have been a very disas-
trous situation. The plane landed safely with
all passengers free of physical, if not emo-
tional, injury. For his fast-thinking and fo-
cus-under-fire, Captain “Sully” Sollenberger
emerged, quite deservedly, as a celebrated
hero. Much further away, with no media
fanfare or acclaim over the activities they
undertake everyday; the workers at Hoosier
Spring would later privately revel in the fact
that their manufactured metallurgical com-
ponents, which had been applied in that air-
craft as well as countless others, functioned
just as they were intended to function.
When product quality, durability and per-
formance under pressure is not something
simply depended-on, but demanded, world
leaders in aviation (that’s Boeing, General
Electric, Parker-Hannifin, Woodward, Pratt
& Whitney, and Honeywell) rely on parts
