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>> My name is Brian Budzinski.

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And currently, I serve as an engineering
manager for the Boeing company.

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I work in Seal Beach, California.

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And what we do is we do aircraft
structural repairs.

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So my team actually serves on
the 737NG wing and empennage.

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So to kind of break it down
further, the NG is what Southwest

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and Alaska Airlines they primarily fly.

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So we focus on the wing side of things and the
empennage, which is the tail of the aircraft,

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for all the structural repairs for the aircraft.

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Yeah. So similar to cars, aircraft have to
go through regularly scheduled maintenance.

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And so, the maintenance schedules
are denoted by letters.

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So you have an A check, a B
check, C check and a D check.

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And the further you go along the
letters, the heavier the maintenance is.

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So once you get to like a D check, you're
actually tearing the seats out of the aircraft,

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tearing the interior out of the aircraft.

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You're taking the engines off.

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And so, when you're looking at the aircraft
in that much detail, you're really looking

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for any kind of corrosion, any kind of cracks.

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And so, the aircraft has what is
called a structural repair manual,

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which the operators can usually do a
certain amount of maintenance on their own.

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And if it exceeds what's in the manual,
then they have to contact us at Boeing,

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and then we have to analyze to develop a
repair or to tell them that it's good as is.

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So a structural repair manual
breaks the aircraft down into parts.

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So you have the fuselage of the aircraft.

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You have the wings.

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And then it breaks it down further.

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You the flaps, the ailerons, the
slats, and all the parts of the wings.

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And then it also breaks the wings down
further into the ribs and things like that.

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And so, what it does is it
looks at every component

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of the aircraft and it gives allowable damages.

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So if the damage were to exceed what is
in the manual, then they typically are

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to contact Boeing, and then
we develop a repair for them.