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Post by Defender on Dec 27, 2017 17:17:22 GMT -5
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Dec 27, 2017 21:54:21 GMT -5
And it's 90% new parts, only 10% overhauled. Wow.
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Post by gwhess on Dec 27, 2017 23:01:42 GMT -5
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Post by nmlw on Dec 28, 2017 0:22:20 GMT -5
Wonder what the first flight is going to be and how much a ticket on it will cost? I wouldn't mind being on it.
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Post by Dan on Dec 28, 2017 1:03:06 GMT -5
They do just titanic job. It will be great, when another one of that magnificent birds will fly again!
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Post by Maarten on Dec 28, 2017 7:27:23 GMT -5
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Post by capflyer on Dec 28, 2017 7:45:38 GMT -5
And it's 90% new parts, only 10% overhauled. Wow. 90% new STRUCTURAL parts. This is an important distinction. Major assemblies like the landing gear, control surfaces, and skin panels were restored/overhauled instead of replaced. The interior, while there is new paneling and the seats have new covers, most of the bones were simply restored. Something that a lot of non-restoration people don't understand is that most major restorations in aviation involve 90% of the structural components being replaced. 60+ years of corrosion (especially in non-compatible environments as they tend to be) tends to make a lot of structural components of questionable integrity, and thus they get replaced. For example, none of the P-51s restored in the last 20 years by the major 3 companies that do restorations have original wings. The skins might be original, but the structure is almost all new construction. This is actually more fiscally responsible to do as well because enough P-51s have now been restored that there is a demand and the tooling has been remade and casting molds created (or at least patterns for molds) to make the new parts to the exact same specs as the originals. Even for limited projects, like the P-82 projects and the Stockton Musuem's PV-2 Harpoon have invested in having moulds made and new castings done because it's now so much cheaper to do with the advent of computer-driven modeling that allows for the patterns to be made and 3D printed for a fraction of the cost of traditional moulding processes. As for ticket prices - Lufthansa has suggested the airplane will be put on normal flight routes, so the prices will probably take their normal ticket price for a given route and then put a premium on top of it. How much premium I've not seen, but considering what a full price ticket is for many flights, they'll probably not be much above that since most passengers don't actually pay the full price in normal operations.
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Post by Maarten on Dec 28, 2017 8:19:27 GMT -5
I have been witnessing a similar rebuild being done from 1990 till 1999 by the the Dutch Dakota Association's Technical Department of DC-3C PH-DDZ (c/n 19764). The result being a virtually new DC-3 which, given the quality of the work done, received from McDonnell/Douglas the acknowledgement of being the last Douglas DC-3 built!
Cheers, Maarten
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Post by Defender on Dec 28, 2017 8:27:15 GMT -5
There was a British TV comedy series with a character whose job was a street sweeper for the local Council. Talking to friends in the pub he mentioned that he was still using his original sweeping brush, just three new heads and two new handles............ Bill
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Post by Maarten on Dec 28, 2017 8:50:46 GMT -5
There was a British TV comedy series with a character whose job was a street sweeper for the local Council. Talking to friends in the pub he mentioned that he was still using his original sweeping brush, just three new heads and two new handles............ Bill Trigger! It is about Trigger having been decorated by the Peckham council (London) for sweeping the streets with the same broom for twenty years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE
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Post by Defender on Dec 28, 2017 9:47:48 GMT -5
Thanks for finding that Maarten. They're all classics. Just like old planes, old jokes are the best.
Best regards
Bill
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Post by Bjoern on Dec 28, 2017 12:34:28 GMT -5
Wonder if there are any 3D printed parts among the 90%. With official certification, the printing method does open up quite a lot of opportunities for restoring old machinery, winged or wheeled.
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Post by stansdds on Dec 30, 2017 6:07:35 GMT -5
Wonder if there are any 3D printed parts among the 90%. With official certification, the printing method does open up quite a lot of opportunities for restoring old machinery, winged or wheeled. Indeed, it most certainly does. We live in exciting times.
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Post by yellowribbon on Jan 6, 2018 15:40:53 GMT -5
Reminds me of a Lufthansa Maintenance video....from the time when classics were still in front line scheduled service. How they remove and inspect every component and rebuilt it all again, or around those lines www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_ocvMASKcI think it's been posted over here before, must rewatch it! Some good starliner shots in it.
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