Look, feel & touch.
Crew chiefs, don't just eyeball See eyeballs and eyeball driven. your Chinook's flight control closet during daily inspections.
"Look, but don't touch" just won't do. The closet is the brains of your bird's flight control functions and hydraulic systems.
You should feel components for leaks or missing parts, things like:
* missing cotter cot·ter
n.
1. A bolt, wedge, key, or pin inserted through a slot in order to hold parts together.
2. A cotter pin.
[Origin unknown. pins
* loose cannon loose cannon
n. Slang
One that is uncontrolled and therefore poses danger: "[His] bloopers in the White House seem to make him . . . plugs
* leaking fittings
* loose bolts and nuts
* loose hydraulic lines
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