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What are the other two?

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Best AMERICAN airplane. Don’t ever forget that! I was a Boeing test pilot and engineer from 1968 to 1980. Even the Rolls-Royce engines were designed by an American

Bet you were hot 20 years ago;) Like the cat, nice touch!

Me and my favorite Mr.Sam flight is 747

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I guess the rumors are true. Retired stewardesses end up as cat ladies, and retired pilots end up with livers made of stone and illegitimate children in no less than 9 states.

HAHAHAHAHA okay I have done this EXACT thing. My state is in a hard lockdown amidst covid scares and have been binging Mayday and it said Mayday viewers also watch this.

No kidding.

*whistle innocently *

FUCK YEA

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@John Smith more then a couple. At least Thru 1976 when I left. I believe AA flew the mighty 747 beyond 1976

If it's any consolation, this is for TV so there's some drama added. Aircraft miss maintenance deadlines all the time due to damage that needs repaired.

Totally agree.

Why are airlines in business? Money. It is a very simple rule in aviation. If your plane is in the air, you are earning money, when it's not flying, it's costing you money. Period. You have to have schedules and deadlines or nothing would get done. And there's plenty of fluff built into the schedule. And even if something unforeseen pushed back the completion past the deadline, they would not put an unsafe aircraft into the air just to satisfy the accountants. How much money would it cost if the plane crashes or causes some massive lawsuit because corners were cut? No, that just doesn't happen. Your simplistic idyllic "oh, just take as long as you like" for the maintenance crew is not real world.

@@valuedhumanoid6574 Who cares? Lives are what matter. Companies can go out of business. There will always be more. American, United and Delta could go belly up tomorrow. The world will be in upheaval for a bit. Someone will fill in the gap. Life goes on. Know when it doesn't? When people die because someone needed to buy a new yacht with a bigger fuel tank and the open kitchen the wife keeps mentioning she'd like to not cook in. Fuck you. That's the real world. If we need to burn to the ground so you'll realize the difference, keep pushing us.

If U work for a big corporation you will get that conflict of interest.

Why though? Cost issues?

@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 Fuel and maintainance costs coupled with the decline in overseas travel. Planes like the Airbus A340 and Boeing 777 make more sense.

Yeah there was this British Airways documentary I'd seen (basically a PR stunt for them) with a dash of 'reality TV' of which stewardesses were going to be hired, etc. and all they could talk about were the "new A380s" being the wave of the future. Well guess what, they just stopped manufacturing them due to lack of demand; that was a 15-year run; 13 if you count the tangle with FAA approval ('05 or '07 to '20.) Compared to Boeing (1970 to est. 2022) that's 52 years, 4 times the length. That's a legacy. Air France 447 proved Scarebuses had babysitters, not pilots. Boeing's a company I'm proud both of my grandfathers designed for (and the US military; one during WWII, the other doing stealth jets in the 50s.) You can google their names and see all the great patents they invented. They were the last freelance scientists. They would be horrified if they had lived to see the 737-MAX disaster; luckily the last one passed in his sleep at age 92, a year before the accidents and groundings.

Worked at west end of Pearson and never got tired of watching them come and go for 25 years ! Have only seen 2 this year 😞 One of my Twitter followers is a former 747 pilot!! The day of the Air France incident went up to other runway to grab a coffe. Three lined up leave ! Guess who was late coming back from lunch break ?

@@scottcol23 not the A340, more like the 787 or the a330 because the a340 has four engines, and it’s just not economical, there are 2 too many engines on it.

Those 10 will still serve for 30+ years

Because of this sad piece of news, I cannot put a thumb up…🙄🥺 but I fully agree with you as most viewers do I suppose. I’m a blood…Frenchman…😆

I wish I would have been able to fly on one 😞

Me too

We drove to the end of runway to watch the 747 take off. I flew in one later. Great ride

Sound interesting, could you elaborate a bit more, for laymen? I'm guessing Mods A, B & C refer to progressively more difficult and intensive levels of scrutiny and maintenance. Since this was a once-in-6-years complete overhaul of the 747, it was a Mod C job... am I right?

I also checked the date the documentary was made and the time of the incident. This documentary was made in 2012 (MMXII in Roman numerals), while the incident I found was in 2016. that's a 4-year gap, So I did feel relief for the safety of the passengers and the plane.

@@yukikursosaki200 nobody uses Roman numerals for dates, gtfo lmao

@@nicholasjaworski9368 chill out, not a big deal, no need to overreact

@@nicholasjaworski9368 No? Check out the credits at 58:28.

Hey Dad! I felt like crying also.😢I was a test pilot of Boeing 747s in 1970 And a pilot that piggy backed the shuttle a few times.. Both wonderful birds

The 5 week time schedule to finish this complete overhaul is the thousand pound gorilla in the cockpit. Next to pilot error a poorly maintained aircraft of this size is the second most common reason for flying accidents.

@@timmayer8723 thankfully, the number of maintenance related accidents have gone down steadily over the years. They’re way more rare these days. Regulations were tightened up after Alaska 261 in 2000 but there’s always rooms for improvement.

a380 production has ended lmao, didn't even last

It’s Bernoulli’s principal of accelerated airstream over a wing surface that is is equally effective as Newton’s third law under the wing . Those two principals are cooperative to each other.👨‍✈️

@@General5USA I'm fine with the bernoulli principle accelerating the air over the wing. The principle not only explains the acceleration of the air, but also how it stays "in contact" with the wing surface, and is thus directed downward. It doesn't work independently to produce lift like most people describe. It in fact contributes to Newton's law.

@@wallyman292 but know this. Most of the lift is generated at the aft 50% of the wing while most of the Newton’s 3rd law is equally effective ( pushing up ) at the complete bottom of the wing

@@General5USA This is definitely getting beyond my level of knowledge, but instead of "lift", couldn't you more accurately say most of the "redirection downward" of the airflow (again, due to bernoulli's principle) happens at the aft 50%? And since the entire wing is rigid (front to back, not base to tip), it all reacts to the equal and opposite force upward?

There is you know, there always is some extra and as a matter of fact, airplanes do miss their deadlines often as some not all damage can be taken care within 5 weeks - the tight on time and no margin for slack was perhaps added for the TV drama. But yes undeniably there is pressure and burden on the maintenance crew as any undue delays come with a considerable cost.

No doesn't love to work is that it no that's not correct keynote get out now

Ripping apart a 747-400 with an excavator sounds fun too.

@@scottcol23 I'd love that job. I'd go home after work and do more of the same in my bank yard.

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They are referring to money remember this is a British documentary

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I’ve flown in them a few times. Once from Bangkok to Dubai....in seat 1A. When I did work overseas in the early 90s I was always flown first class.

Gius a pint please

Lockheed makes the C-5 Super Galaxy

@@abbeyjane1306 A J... ' that is a good keep company make more C--5... try put space shuttle on the top C-5 and fly test

That’s UK£. British currency.

The tanks are vented for a few days before people allowed to go in.

It must have been some other official belonging to another country. We haven't lost any PMs to air crashes.

@@stuart8663 Yeah I thought maybe so because after I posted I searched it and could not find it.

@@hazelwood55 it was for Australia's Harold Holt

@@andrewthomson I remembered it as the PM dying in a plane crash. When Stu Art said they did not have any PMs die in plane crashes I searched the internet and changed the post. Yes, that is the PM I was thinking of though.

Sounds unlikely. They have always had at least two planes available at all times.