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Pitted
against learning curve
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No.
82 Wing engineer Flying Officer Hayley Thomas and 00 Motorsport
engineer Oscar Fiorinotto at work in the pits at the Indy
2000.
Photo by AC Steve Hobbs
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The
Roulettes(above) and F/A-18s (below) fly over the Gold Coast
as part of the Air Force's involvement in the Indy 300.
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IT'S
one pit stop that she's glad she made.
Flying Officer Hayley Thomas, a No. 82 Wing engineer, enjoyed her
stint in the 00 Motorsport V8 Supercar pits at the Indy 300 on the
Gold Coast from October 25-27.
FLGOFF Thomas was among four 82WG personnel to work with the Ford
racing team, after becoming acquainted with the team members at
Indy last year.
"Since then I've kept in touch with their engineers, shared
ideas about design problems and issues, and they've visited the
base," she said.
"I've always had an interest in motorsport and they invited
us to work with them for the weekend at Indy."
She said the learning curve was steep but found many similarities
between the work of a fast-jet engineer and a racing team engineer.
"As a junior engineer I was taught about everything they were
doing on the strategic side of things right down to writing reports,"
she said.
"It was unbelievable, but great to know that we're both maintenance
managers, only on different vehicles."
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