man you stole my thoughts exactly! And to think, some in the Air Force were unlucky enough to get this type of job... and must do it or else.

i too

OH the HORROR!

Oh the humanity!

I could never to this! This is my recurrent nightmare since I was a kid! Huge respect for you guys!

even single feather laying below engine make matter

They take more years even to study, and here in Ecuador to be an aircraft mechanic it would take you 4 years

no indication its a plane. what type of aircraft do you think this is?

vonshango maybe read the description

I fly pretty frequently. I have a really high respect for the maintenance people for keeping us alive and the pilots for getting us where we're going.

sounds like a carrier hahaha

Shaikh Mullah-ud-Din same here

Crooked Halo Pardon me for asking but in Texas what’s your definition of cold where heat hoses become necessary? I’m no expert but wouldn’t such a confined space get warmer than ambient before long with two or three men in there?

@@peterweatherley7669 and what if you had a double bean burrito before entering…

Gotta love sliding through those A-frames under the exhausts in 2 and 3 tanks 😋

@@mackerel1875 At first I enjoyed _nothing_ about "working in the tanks, _especially_ # 1 & #4! Those were the tip tank numbers, if I remember correctly, the belly being #5. The tips had very little room because of the taper & it got skinnier closer to the tips. Those tanks were where I learned I had (minor) claustrophobia. I got over it quickly, however, because I was elected to work the tanks being new & slimmer than my co-workers. I did grow to enjoy the tanks, though, especially the belly tank as it had lots more room. In the wings I would sometimes remove more stiffener brackets than what was called out simply to make it easier to move up & down the inside of the wing.

@@crooked-halo Hahaha! Luckily for me, we didn't get many leaks outboard in 1 and 4. And due to the Royal Australian Air Force operations, (regarding use of 5 and 5A tanks) we didn't go into the belly tank all that often. 3 and 4 were mostly a weekly event, very rarely we wouldn't be in 2 or 3. I don't remember ever removing any structure from inside the tanks though, but I do remember being thankful for the "invention" of tank mats! I hated worming my way outboard in 2 and 3, under the exhausts, through the A-frames. I think they were there to carry through the main landing gear trunnions. I've still got scars from bashing knuckles on dome nuts or bolt heads in there. And, 25 years later, I still remember the smell of PS870... Glad to see you "survived" your time in those tanks!

Memories of the 727 bag tank

mark kaupas that was the centre tank. If its a 767 the wings hold about 17 tonnes of fuel each.

mark kaupas that was the center fuel tank not the wings

BS

Mike F finally someone using critical thinking... I agree I have seen a lot of tanks of all kinds. That is not a fuel tank no way. To clean. Even if brand new and never been filled it's not what it would look like

Troll alert!!”

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+Viren Mishra hehe, kaunsi city mai rhete ho aap?

pussy

me too

neither me

The Art Of Skullduggery.

TJ USMC I still don’t understand how airplanes can fly for 13 hours non stop and have space for enough fuel in the tank and wings! Fuel is also very heavy.

@@bluefairyuk fuel is also incredibly energy dense. When a plane takes off, almost a third of its weight is just fuel.

and you didn't know your way out..

Happened in Russia. There was a case of a mechanic that got locked inside by his colleagues, who thought there is noone in. Tank got filled up, plane was flying for some time. When the poor lad was discovered, he was partially melted.

Tomáš Jesus imagine drowning and burning in jet a. Even the fumes alone

Irfan Majeed most fuel tanks are aluminum alloys maybe 5052

T6 hard. Ya know maybe 7075-T6

stfu

Oh my god..iam so claustrophobic..i almost lost it!!!

No like for you

consider yourself lucky you found an exit....Imagine the job known as a "SEALER" which is one who in fact spends his time in those tanks sealing the seams etc.

I always had & gave tons of respect to the sealing team on the P-3 & C-130s. I worked a lot in the fuel cells but a different company did the sealing. They got covered with their sticky sealant, which stunk, got all over everything & never came off of clothing. Sealers have to stick their noses and hands in the most hard to reach areas of the cells.

mac zana ..lol 🤣🤣😂

can i take your cell number becoz i want to take some information about sealing of airplane fuel tank

mac zana: "What would happen if you ever get lost and end up coming out of the toilet?" Wellllll, I hate to state the obvious BUTTT....... you'd literally be "in the shit" lol.

Marwan Al-Shareef me too😆

Yes.. 😱

Marwan Shareef

I am also

You drain it.

realvanman Maybe it's a new airplane

First they pump off all the fuel that will pump off. Then they go to the fuel sumps and drain the residual fuel. Then they open the tank and purge it with air. Then they may or may not use a suction device so suck up the last fuel. Finally they use a sniffer to determine that the fumes are below the lower explosive limit, (won't burn) below human safe limits, and that there is adequate oxygen.

cause they run on air

No way that is a fuel tank! Not one drop of fuel... Plastic bags , cables , yeah yeah ... Even if they pump clean air in there the fumes stille be there and You would not go in there without a mask!

767

Its awesome, I work for FFCS and travel the world tank diving. I look forward to work. Check us out

You will be lost and you boss say to you... "Don't be a baddy, come out"

Robert Watson heavy maintenance 747

jurrien75 hello dear can u take your number becoz i want to take some information regarding fuel tank of aeroplane

They surely must have vented it before going in.

Obsolete Professor, in a word ‘yes’. This tank, despite being empty and dry for quite some time will still have a slight fuel odour. What you can’t see is the air pumps drawing in fresh air to allow people to work in there without the usual confined space collection of crap. It is far more comfortable to put up with a faint fuel odour than to drag your mask, air supply hose, torch/light, tools for the job and parts required. I sure don’t miss doing this on the big jets, coz I’d come out battered n bruised after a shift. Lucky for me I now work on smaller stuff that can be reached at arms length from the entry panels. Be grateful we don’t have ‘smellievision.........’

Take a fresh air line in with ya. It is real thin and don't get in the way but it keeps a positive fresh air supply coming out so a +1 inside with you alway flushing fresh air but ya take a VOC meter in with ya and it will tell ya if it is fresh or too much fuel vapors present.

good question was thinking the wery same

Dried

That aircraft has had its fuel tanks open for a long time. As part of the procedure of making the tank safe for entry to the point of no breathing apparatus required, all little puddles of fuel are mopped dry and a constant flow of air with blowers and vacuum pumps will dry the remaining fuel out of the tank. Tank entry people are a band apart. It’s a confined space area I sure don’t miss. Ps just ignore the aluminium foil hat wearers that now claim that aircraft engines don’t use fuel. For them every day is April the 1st.

Since I used to work on this kind of stuff, I agree. What this video is showing is not the beginning of a process, but one near the conclusion. The tanks have been drained, cleaned up and well ventilated. Personally I never had a problem with claustrophobia, I have been in places much tighter and more confining.

He drank the whole before shooting video!!!

One year an aircraft had a fuel problem they suspected was contamination. When they opened the tanks, they found a dead body. Removed body. Ops check good.

Garrick Akuloff Boeing 767

They are not as thin as you think.

But they are in centre tank not the wing tank

Ronak Singh Gulati what aircraft is this ?

Boeing 747

And i think this is the centre tank

Roman Legkii what would happen if that happens?

then you would be lost inside the fueltank of a plane

well hopefully you manage to escape the tank before they refuel it ....

please always carried long long ropes

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Good idea but if the zombies destroy the Aeroplane.you are gone

Why would a zombie destroy an aeroplane that is sitting on the ground? After all it has no fuel to be destroyed without jcb :P

how about veteran pilot's zombie? request fuel filling, and ready for takeoff

Id rather fight zombies!

Jet engine fuel is just basically kerosene. Maybe you should do some basic research, instead of embarrassing yourself with your massive ignorance.

I have researched jet fuel and the Hazards known for fuel tank entry. Please do some research yourself smart-arse . Chemical Respiratory Physical

I am qualified as an aero engine technician, and also confined spaces entry. I happen to know what is involved and how this is done.

Ok great, you could of started off like that instead of being rude. Maybe you can answer some of the questions a lot of people have. Why is there no residue or any sign of there ever being any fuel in there ever? I know the procedure of ventilating and drying out the area.. still not going to remove all signs of use. Are the wires resistant to corrosion? Even if they have equipment to Gage the oxygen and toxicity level they would still need to wear masks as a precaution. As a critical thinker even you must see the oddness in this video? Wires just hanging there with plastic bags covering them.

The video was made in the middle of a process. The aircraft was in the hangar for long term maintenance, IMO at least a week. The fuel was drained, the tanks were opened up and ventilated, then further cleanup was performed. Only then the confined space entry procedure allowed workers unfettered access inside the tanks. This time period is when the video was made, days into the process. The interior would receive a final cleaning and the lighting and other equipment will be removed once the work is signed off and then the tanks closed off. There would be further testing to ensure equipment inside the tanks functioned, and then for fuel leaks before the aircraft was signed off. If you have a metal container full of gasoline, drained it and cleaned the interior fastidiously, would you expect any residue? No difference. What the video does not show are the two or three days spent preparing the interior of the tank so workers (in the video) could access the interior to perform their chores.

nothing is tight in aviation or in any other big business - the business is rigged from bottom to top - everything in this industrial complex is rigged to enrich itself - the whole world is in fucking Babylonian debt slavery. You should realize that the international banking system is the biggest scam on in the physical reality... Everything is a lied, not just some parts...But we will find out soon, disclosure is coming.

@@theroliyogi please start reading some real books...... and stop visiting youtube.....

This is a "wet wing" - they pump the fuel directly into the hollow spaces of the wings.

OMG I am on the floor dude..........................

Theron Ponds maybe you can answer me something. How do they get a person out if they collapse/die ? You know, heart attack or even if they freak out from the confined space.

Robbo they have walkie talkie that give them a ring every thirty minutes, from the outside from the lead. If no answer, they notify the managers and after that call the fire department

At L-3 Waco they had major, huge, mean-looking gas-powered saws to cut fuel cells open & extract injured/claustrophobic/freaking-out workers. They have yet to be used, though I saw a few guys actually freak out in there. The P-3 fuel cell is where I was cured of claustrophobia.

Robbo ..they leaving there and once the body decomposes they burn it by the jet engines

I been reading online that fuel in airplanes is a hoax? Can you tell me why that isn’t possible? Just KZfaq Airplane fuel hoax and you’ll see tons of into on the subject

Wings are actually quite large, these guys are not however. I am 6'3" and would never fit in these confined spaces. Well, I might fit with a lot of extra effort but I would never do it!

Unfortunately it takes ages to get all the funk out of a fuel tank, not minutes. I work on large jets for a living. We have to soak up all the residue and vent the fumes with active airflow for 24 hours before anyone is allowed inside the tanks without respirators. You still end up smelling like the stuff after you've been inside.

+Johnny Hicks "Too big to be a plane wing"? The root of the A380 wing is 8 _feet_ thick (747 probably 6-7), and the top and bottom skins of the wing _are_ the fuel tank (hence the curved floor and roof in this video).

I think he said it was the center tank.

+tjperez69 He did, but it doesn't look like these tanks would be any significant amount taller than the ones in the wings. Depends on the aircraft of course - Series 2, episode 25 of "Dirty Jobs" shows the "intrepid hero" ;-) inside the wing of a KC135 (military version of a 707 which is rather smaller than this aircraft), photos of the inboard fuel tank wing bulkhead of an A380 show close to 8 _feet_ high, and there's even photos of a person inside of a Concorde tank. Close quarters certainly. But not impossible. Cavers do it all the time under worse circumstances.

Actually, jet fuel fumes are irritating, not toxic, but if you choose to smoke a joint in there your going to be scratching your eyes.

There's a process called depuddling. Someone goes into the tanks or cells with required equipment to retrieve residual fuel. Fumes can be neutralized filling the tanks with carbon dioxide.

@@MUSTANG408W Carbon dioxide? Ha!

correct, they use batteries

They run on stupidity, same as you.

They go far out of their way to deceive people.

+Jessie James "It this is true how can you breath in where fuel has been stored..." Because they've had huge blowers blowing air through the tanks for 24 hours or more, and the previous team with respirators mopped up whatever residue they could find. Simple. How do you think car mechanics weld fuel tanks anyway? They just don't fire up the torch and fire it down the fuel fill hole. It takes a few hours worth of procedure to get it clean enough and vent all the fumes.

Wings must be thick enough to hold the weight of the plane and to generate lift more effectively. The wing root of an A380 is over 8ft thick. This plane is a Boeing 767 which is a little smaller, but big enough to fit a person, as seen in the video.

Definitely a fuel tank, lots of aluminum fuel lines running throughout, plus it has a common design of an aircraft fuel tank. At 1:24 of the video there’s a black tube which looks to be a fuel probe ( measures fuel quantities )

@@sexigrande1792 Electrical cables in the tank? Come on! Rivet a tank together out of 4 sides of aluminum that can distort & flex 20% that's water tight

​@@raymond3803 though I’ve never worked on this type of aircraft I have worked In fuel tanks on military aircraft. Yes there are insulated wires that run through them. Cars themselves have wires that run the fuel pump. Plus you need the right amount of oxygen to create an explosion and it has happened. Actually have a fuel tank with only fumes is more dangerous than a full tank. Not sure what you mean with your last sentence though. What stood out for me was the construction of the area, the aluminum lines which are common in fuel tanks and that’s definitely a fuel probe, Plus this is an aviation channel.

@@sexigrande1792 1:27 Those are bare electrical wire connections submerged in fuel. Hanging huge engines within 1 foot of aluminum skin fuel tanks? Fuel tanks without puncture resistant bladders. A380 can be filled in 30 to 40 minutes? With those little hoses and trucks. No way! Pressure would blow a hole through wing skin. I'm no expert. Just common sense. Look into jet fuel hoax conspiracy. Something to it. It would take > 1 hour to dump the fuel. Tanks would metal stress and leak within 1 month. Fuselage & cockpit must pressurize. They don't distort in shape. And they leak at times. Hollow wings being liquid tight. No!

@@raymond3803 I’ve definitely heard of the jet fuel “hoax” I used to work fuel tanks almost daily for 5 years. I know they hold fuel. Every mechanic knows they do. You’re all over the place with your claims. Yes tanks do leak from time to time. Pressure would blow a hole in the skin? Why? Tanks are rarely filled from empty or to max capacity. I already explained about the wires. Don’t you think me and the rest of the people that service aircraft would be aware of this? Do you know how strong the smell of jet fuel is?