I always go a bit cold when I see stuff like that, if a Gas Turbine goes wrong it doesn’t do it slowly and with any finesse. I would never stop anyone running jets as a hobby but I would take a lot of persuading to be anywhere nearby when they are.

I would agree with you 100% on that! I’m also suprised that there were very few ear defenders in the videos. All jets are loud close up!

The recent incident with a mechanic and a 737 at El Paso should serve as a salutory warning to all – if a bloke with 40 years experience can get caught out anyone can.

(A word of warning. If you don’t know about the El Paso incident I must warn you there are some absolutely horrific pictures of the incident out there so please have a careful think before you Google. They really are graphic and certainly not to be viewed unless you are prepared to be very shocked)

I think that the pictures refered to should be shown to EVERYONE who works on or around aircraft regardless of how squemish they are. I don’t care if they faint,throw up or have nightmares if it saves just one persons life then it would have been worth it. I see the ground staff at my airport regularly risk themselves around running or spooling down engines. It makes me go cold every time. Yes, I do tell them and yes I have reported this!

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American Airlines were late customers for the 757 so they won’t be retiring them just yet.

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this one was an ASR Sea king that had had a bump and went for a major service to give it a good going over. it was discovered that prior to its heavy landing a crack had started that went around almost a 3rd of the bulkhead that held the whirlybits,engine and gearbox to the rest of the airframe. the crack had been getting bigger over a period of time judging by the sludge trapped within.

When I worked on Seakings, we got a telex from the Navy technical branch telling us to look for cracks in two stringers that the gearbox was bolted to. They said if the crack was more than an inch long, ground the aircraft and give tham a call. We found a crack 1.5″ long running through two rivit holes. We ran around like headless chickes for a bit then gave the navy a call. They said “Only 1.5″??? we’ve got one thats SIX FEET long!!!! Just keep an eye on it and repair it at the next major”

As for the 380. The found the cracks during an inspection and they have repaired them already. Whats the story??

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Really… Do you have any pictures?

Of the ATP???:eek::eek: I think there are forum rules about posting offensive pictures!:D
Thinking about it I think the BAe 146 had handles like this on the cargo bays too.

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he was mortified as to the possible fall out over it when we told him we had found the problem. Pointed out that where would you prefer finding the cause of the slow to accel, on the detuner or hot and high full of SLF on a short strip during rotation made his worries dissapear.

Some of the managers I work with would rather that kind of thing happen in flight because the resultant mess would be on somebody elses budget!:eek:

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A final point is the role of Virgin in the bidding for BD. If they have the money then DLH will sell it to them, simples.

I can’t see any bank lending VS the money to by an airline that LH couldn’t make profitable.

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Thats sad. I had a great time with British Midland when I was on work experience with them back in 1999. They had some really nice people working for them at LHR T1, T2 and also in the queens building.

The good news is that withe IAG buying BMI, they won’t be made redundant, as they would be if Lufthansa pulls the plug.

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http://www.newairplane.com/737/737Max/

Looks like the have changed the design of section 48, and got rid of that awful APU inlet.

Let’s hope they have sorted out the whole of the APU bay and got rid of the bl***y shroud! I had to top the oil up on one last night, so the shroud is top of my hate list at the moment!:mad:

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