Posted on 09/12/2017 7:28:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — It's been almost 11 months since the City of Pensacola broke ground on a multimillion dollar aerospace facility at Pensacola International Airport.
Things are moving fast on the VT Mobile Aerospace Engineering (VT MAE) project that's set to bring hundreds of jobs to the area.
The city is really excited about the progress being made on the project.
VT MAE is expected to benefit not just the airport, but the surrounding community as well.
The VT MAE project at the airport is more than halfway to be completed.
David Penzone, a consultant for the city said, "The project is a 16-month project. We are at this stage planning for substantial completion on March 20, 2018. We're pretty much on track."
The Pensacola City Council got an update on the status of construction and budget on Monday afternoon.
The 173,000 square foot building is up. It will accommodate wide-body and narrow-body aircraft.
Penzone said $17 million of the $46 million project has been spent so far.
"We're going to be very good with respect to the budget," Penzone said. "Things are tracking pretty much as we have always planned them to do. There may be overruns in one area, savings in another area, but we're on track with the budget."
Penzone said the most exciting thing is the jobs that will be created and the other opportunities that will come from the project.
He said, "With 400 full-time jobs at VT MAE that will create another 380 jobs in ancillary services: healthcare, financial, retail. That's just the ripple effect of permanent jobs."
The average salary for workers at VT MAE will be $41,000.
Penzone said now is the time for people to start getting trained for these jobs.
The Obama prosperity in full bloom!
Well good. We were next door @ Orange Beach AL and spent the most of one day over @ the Naval Museum on the base . . . son is aerospace engineering student started junior year last month. Had a very nice time, just me, husband and son . . . rest of family had headed out. We both worked at General Dynamics before moving here (before he was born) and I think son was quite surprised how much ole Mom knew about planes, engines, the aerospace companies and much of the history etc. etc. . . . pretty much as much as Dad. :)
Did you ever know Emil Pipersky by any chance? He and his wife were family friends when we lived in Chino.
Female hires emphasized for VT MAE's Pensacola aviation hangar
By Joseph Baucum, April 12, 2017
Name doesn’t ring a bell. I’ll have to ask husband when he gets home on Thursday.
Just make sure all are tested and held to the same standard, regardless of gender, color sexual “identification”, ad nauseam.
Aviation is, as an old hand at BOAC ,sais, “terribly unforgiving of the slightest oversight or neglect”.
Aye, therein lies the rub. You will never know if the standards were lowered for the favored gender, color, etc.
Schools have lowered standards for the favored for decades. When they can’t cut it even with lowered standards, what’s the solution? Lower standards even further. Wash, rinse, repeat.
You will never know until a tire explodes with incorrect air pressure or a jack screw seizes due to missed lubrication or an engine falls off due to incorrectly installed bolts.
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