Yeah that mechanic must love his job otherwise he wouldn’t be hanging from the engine like a monkey with such a good chance of failing and breaking his neck.

That’s how it was whether you were on base or down route. No. 34 squadron at Seletar had the “luxury” of a mobile platform for engine and prop changes. For plug changes you hung like a monkey on a “giraffe”, down route engine changes were carried out with a gantry mounted on the wing to lift the engine with ourselves pushing and heaving from the “giraffe”.
Great days.