Disputed ramp space at Luanda

*cough* CDL 🙂

I was wondering which one of you would notice that.:o

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Right, I did a bit of revision at work today,,
The 747 winglet is held on by ONE bolt at the front and TWO bolts at the back. (It was a long time ago!)
The 757’s winglets is slightly different. It has a short piece of extra wing rivited to the existing wingtip. The winglet is bolted to this by EIGHTEEN bolts, the wires connecting the nav lights and a bonding lead. (Always a bloody bonding lead!)
I didn’t get a look at the MEL so I don’t know if you can dispatch it with one missing.

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Plus, as evidenced numerous times, the winglets on the A330/A340 are not an essential aerodynamic part. You can remove them and still fly the aircraft.

Same goes for the B744 and all these retrofitted blended winglet 737, 757s and 767s.

I don’t know about the retrofitts. They don’t look as easy to remove as the 747-400 or the A330. I would love to find out for sure.
I help replace a 747-400 winglet years ago. Easy. A bunch of panels, two big pins at the front, two (or was it one???) smaller pin(s) at the back and a bonding lead. There it is, on the floor. The only thing about it was that it is an awkward lump high up, not the kind of thing you would want to do without a crane. It’s not heavy, just awkward, thats all.

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Who remembers the Aeroflot Il-62 at Anchorage that was written off after Asiana tried to do a u-turn and put the 744 wing tip right through its tail fin..

This event in fact, http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/asiana-anc/photo.shtml

edited to include fuller details

Leading edge Vs Trailing edge. There is no contest. If you were to run a Blériot leading edge into a Sturmovik trailing edge the Blériot would fly away!

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Plus, as evidenced numerous times, the winglets on the A330/A340 are not an essential aerodynamic part. You can remove them and still fly the aircraft.

Same goes for the B744 and all these retrofitted blended winglet 737, 757s and 767s.

Where was this one dug up from? It happened on July 27th!

It’s actually happened twice at Heathrow in the past couple of years. Once where the wing of a Sri Lankan 340 clipped the wing of a BA 747 and once where the wing of a BA 747(?) being pushed back clipped the tail of a BA 321 waiting to park.

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Heathrow being one of the busiest airports in the world it’s a wonder there hasn’t been more.

That´s not an Aussie 763. It´s an TAAG-Angola 772.

Thanks, your eyesight is better than mine 😉

Leading edge Vs Trailing edge. There is no contest. If you were to run a Blériot leading edge into a Sturmovik trailing edge the Blériot would fly away!

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If i remeber rightly the Airbus was able to continue on a few hours later!

The BA 777 was grounded in LAD! Replacement Parts sourced from a Stored 777 at CWL I think!

How old is that pic? that looks like an Australian 763 in the background.

That´s not an Aussie 763. It´s an TAAG-Angola 772.

How old is that pic? that looks like an Australian 763 in the background.

A habit? Last time a couple of years ago? Come on chaps, that’s not a habit 😉

Ouch!

It looks from the pics that the Airbus has inflicted a lot more damage to the T7 than it has sustained itself. Now that’s Airbus quality for you!!:diablo:

Where was this one dug up from? It happened on July 27th!

Quite a habit forming for BA, a similar incident happen at LHR a couple of years ago.

It’s actually happened twice at Heathrow in the past couple of years. Once where the wing of a Sri Lankan 340 clipped the wing of a BA 747 and once where the wing of a BA 747(?) being pushed back clipped the tail of a BA 321 waiting to park.

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