January 19, 201610 yr Check this out - very interesting... http://www.slideshare.net/Art37/qantas-repair Matthew Bellette
January 19, 201610 yr Very interesting! Thx for sharing. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 19, 201610 yr Impressive undertaking, reveals how important strong project management is to success. Dan Downs KCRP
January 19, 201610 yr Brilliant 'undercover' reportage. To discover this 16 years later, wow. Thanks for the enlightenment, Matthew. Rick Almeida
January 19, 201610 yr "And all we had left was this one bolt...." B) Thanks for posting- these incidents so often (understandably) escape public documentation. Dan Dominik "I thought you said your dog does not bite.... That's not my dog."
January 19, 201610 yr Fascinating repair. Quite the undertaking. CYVR LSZH I7-14700k 64gb 6000Mhz DDR5 ASUS z690 ROG STRIX Gaming RTX 4080 Super,
January 20, 201610 yr Some of those pics have made it to media outlets but that's a nice collection in one place, cheers. Wes Meyer
January 20, 201610 yr More often than not the carriers are highly sensitive to having any aircraft bearing their logo/name while on the ground, in repair following an incident. Frequently logos are painted over or otherwise covered even while AOG teams are en route, and scrap/replacements are carefully controlled. Whether it makes a difference is debatable (and no reporter would ever be fooled), but it's been an m.o. for decades presumably to reduce the reaction by the uninformed public in the area. Dan Dominik "I thought you said your dog does not bite.... That's not my dog."
January 20, 201610 yr Indeed, very informative and interesting. Not only can these guys fit a million parts together so that we can fly on it and complain about discomfort without any realization into the work that goes in, they can also remove/replace pieces of it, and put it back together without so much as a scratch on it for the common man's eye!! thx for sharing!! Charan KumarFSX/XPX vPilotVATSIM ZOA and Oceanic Controller (Pacific) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has - Margaret Mead
January 21, 201610 yr Very cool, pic number 8 makes the poor thing look so sad... 747 forever! Wish my airline flew them! Busdriver (Bill) KPHL Busdriver (Bill) KPHL 8086K @5.4GHz, EVGA GTX 1080 TI FTW3, DDR4 16GB @4000MHz, Samsung 970 NVMe (M.2) Windows 10 Pro, Samsung M.2 1TB for P3D V4.5
January 21, 201610 yr Thanks for sharing, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how this repair was executed. :smile: More often than not the carriers are highly sensitive to having any aircraft bearing their logo/name while on the ground, in repair following an incident. Frequently logos are painted over or otherwise covered even while AOG teams are en route, and scrap/replacements are carefully controlled. Whether it makes a difference is debatable (and no reporter would ever be fooled), but it's been an m.o. for decades presumably to reduce the reaction by the uninformed public in the area. It is interesting for sure. There is even a more extreme example: This is Garuda flight 421 after it had crash landed in a river, with the Garuda branding painted over for as long as the wreckage was 'in the public eye'. Henk de Vries
January 21, 201610 yr Author When Qantas sends their jets to the graveyard in the US for storage, they paint the famous white kangaroo red (like the rest of the aircraft tail) and paint white over the "Qantas", etc lettering on the fuselage in the hopes you won't realise it's a Qantas aircraft. Sadly for the airline, I think that all but the most clueless observer would know it was once a Qantas aircraft because there's no mistaking that red tail and white fuselage!!! Matthew Bellette
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