DALLAS — Ask anyone at Standard Aero in Irving, a company that repairs airplane engines, and they’ll tell you, they don’t make them like they used to.
But inside, they’ve got one that defies explanation, whose engine operates at full speed, and after 60 years, still works.
Eighty-three-year-old Kurtis Ray wakes up at 2:30 every morning to begin his 5 a.m. shift, just like he has for the past 60 years…