The first thing that sruck me about the repair to that ,is the access behind it. That damage runs from about halfway along the lower avionics bay to behind the crew oxygen bottle stowage in the forwad freight bay.
To get at it will require the stripping out of all of the avionics and their racks on the right hand side of the bay. Once the repair has been done and all the swarf has been removed there will be an awful lot of testing going on!
The area behind it is also very cramped so the repair will take some time because you won’t be able to get more than one man in the avionic bay at a time. The area in the fwd freight is a little more accessable.
As for the proximity of the static ports. The RVSM area (The grey dotted line oblong on the fuselage) is not affected. The static port aft of it might cause a problem but, as it is below the repair I doubt it. But I would of course consult the relevent SRM’s before starting any work on the aircraft!
Yes I think there will be some serious overtime involved!

Rgds Cking

What do you expect? They are a low cost airline and the most expensive bit of the operation is wages. They would base more out there if they could.
An ex work mate went working for another British low cost out fit. They had a lot of maintenace done abroad. You can guess what I’m about to say, can’t you! Needless to say there is one out fit He and I will not be flying on!
Any way why are people getting upset about jobs being exported now? When the ship/motor bike/clothing/electronic/car manufacturing industrys were distroyed by cheap forign imports did any body complain?

Rgds Cking

I too would like to add my thanks as the Spitfire and Hurricane flew over Donnington park yesterday. They Brightened up an otherwise boring day watching motor racing. Don’t ask, she arranged it, I can’t stand cars at all!
The Reds also flew over (Thanks too) The only thing was the two flew over during some race or other and they didn’t stop the race so we could hear the Merlin’s (AHHH!!)
I only went because, she told me too and it was free! (Some Renault promotion or other.) Won’t be going again. I did try to talk her into Cosford as it was (sort)of in the area but she wouldn’t buy it!,
Next year she has organized us to go and watch the Dulux paint drying championship!!!!

Rgds Cking

I must admit, some times when I’ve done every thing I can think off to clear a snag, I’ve wanted to kill SOMETHING to make the aircraft serviceable!

Rgds Cking

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I don’t follow what you mean here??

I think what he means is that the gutter press think that only America and Europe make aeroplanes. They are bissfully un aware that Brazil has a large,successful aerospace industry. To them Brazil only makes coffee, destroys rain forests and harbours nazis.

Rgds Cking