Man Van Tran joined aviation lighting company, PWI, in 1983. The 70-year-old is one of the last fluorescent light blowing artisans left in the USA, and over the past 37 years he has blown thousands of fluorescent (neon) lights for the cabins, bathrooms and galleys of aircraft like the King Air and Citation. The lights are used in a wide variety of areas such as in
Tran can blow 30 to 50 fluorescents a day depending on the size and number of bends required. He tried retirement once, but he had to return to train someone else in the art – and he has kept going. See Van Tran in action…