Re: The Venerable 741

On 6/11/2024 5:20 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:27:56 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
 

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:49:55 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
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I still have a 747 in a box somewhere.

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How could you loose anything that size?

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I visited a guy in repair facility near the local airport. He said
"Let me show you my repair shop." It had a somewhat disassembled 747
inside with room to spare.
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They have a setup for testing jet engines at full power too.
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We provided him some electronics for testing APUs, which are prtetty
dinky gadgets.

 They are, aren't they? Amazing things to watch close up spinning into
life and revving up to god only knows what sort of RPM.
I have a friend who's seriously into radio-controlled model aircraft.
They're about 5 feet long and are powered by actual jet engines! Still
can't get my head around that.

Back when I was interested in model aircraft as a kid there were model jet engines, but they were pulse jets, of the sort used to power the V1 missiles at the end of WW2.

In the life of an airplane, more is spent on maintanance than the
plane cost. So the maintenance is an interesting market.

Even more interesting to people who fly around in planes that have been around for a while.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney