What Happens To Old Airplanes?

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Did you know the disposal of old planes is a thriving multibillion dollar business? Or that it’s recently spawned a dangerous shadow market in counterfeit aircraft parts?
Hop on board and buckle up for takeoff as we ask exactly what happens to old airplanes?
You might wonder why airplanes need to die in the first place. After all, they’re made of metal, right - can’t they just be maintained, theoretically forever?
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What Happens To Old Airplanes

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@Andrew-qe2rk 3 жыл бұрын

Malaysian airliner in the ocean hmm..

@matissehontebeyrie4811 3 жыл бұрын

thought the same xD

@larkoowusu 3 жыл бұрын

Me to MALAYSIA AIRLINE COME!!!! yea what Will you go to ocea he's gone by Ahhhhhh

@prabhakarkmv4135 2 жыл бұрын

Very unfortunate that the lives lost in this Malaysian plane were not treated in par with the lives lost in Titanic Ship! Well, nothing can be done as not even a single minute trace of this aircraft was found even after a 3-year search! Otherwise, they would hv made a much bigger charbuster movie on this too!

@jazibshaikh7549 Жыл бұрын

@@prabhakarkmv4135 titanic is not a plane it's a steamer ship sunk 110 years ago

@billpugh58 Жыл бұрын

@@prabhakarkmv4135 several pieces with the correct serial numbers have washed up or been fished out. So you comment is wrong.

@frglee 3 жыл бұрын

I quite like the idea of living in a plane - say, the front half of a 747, though I am sure the local housing and land development regulators might have a differing opinion on that.

@admiralwolf7218 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@admiralwolf7218 3 жыл бұрын

Planes are massive so they could be quite nice after you refurbish it

@ranbirkang3284 2 жыл бұрын

Use them as cafe, fast food shops, as free public housing... Send one to each high school as a model display.

@indrajitmitra2645 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent and informative video. These aircrafts are being used wisely.

@prabhakarkmv4135 Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Some are modifying/converting these planes into cosy homes also! 😃

@solastalgia440 3 жыл бұрын

$43,000 for a 747. Would make for a amazing home once renovated.

@svenkuhlmann5665 2 жыл бұрын

Plus 500.000$ for the logistics.

@nczioox1116 2 жыл бұрын

you still have to spend $$$ for the plumbing, electric, etc

@codymcnary3607 5 ай бұрын

Screw that, I would buy it, restore it and turn it into my own private Plane! Even scrounging for engines and refurbishing, would still be cheaper than a small private plane!

@sermonpastor4190 3 жыл бұрын

Why can`t the metal can be used for making cars and instead of dismantling old planes they may be taken to islands and used as small malls, supermarkets and restaurants. truly it would be sound proof and AC ready. thanks.

@XX-bd5ok 3 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm just unnecessarily emotional

@Euler369 3 жыл бұрын

Wow.....thank you tech vision for making wonderful videos

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@OldWorldNY 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload! ✈️ I’ve never really thought about where they went... but it’s pretty neat

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@MrTwinkie797 3 жыл бұрын

I am driving past that Swedish 747 hotell every time I go to work :D

@Perich29 3 жыл бұрын

those economy seats could be used on motorcoach Buses.

@stephenmiller6213 2 жыл бұрын

When I did a stopover at Moscow some years ago there were old aeroflot planes lined up along the fence line with parts missing !

@ilmarilah1195 10 ай бұрын

I don’t care about the money, just put them in museums

@alparslankorkmaz2964 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video.

@tfscropairlinessaveukraine7930 3 жыл бұрын

If I own a country I was trying to order those old planes because I'm going to try and do something with it

@79Gravity 3 жыл бұрын

.. lol, you just explained why you dont own a country :)

@tfscropairlinessaveukraine7930 3 жыл бұрын

@@79Gravity do you want to know what I'm going to use those planes for?

@Sticknub 3 жыл бұрын

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this

@tfscropairlinessaveukraine7930 3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to use those planes to make 1000 V2 rockets!

@aminfozdar 3 жыл бұрын

You could buy a bunch of those fighter jets for ur Air Force

@damanicgrinam8053 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@deepalib3096 3 жыл бұрын

I used to wonder what they do with it.. I thought it's sold as scrap!

@n1thmusic229 3 жыл бұрын

Many parts are, if they don't think the parts are safe enough for use in new planes, they're scrapped and after a crash the entire plane is scrapped

@arunava1973 3 жыл бұрын

The metals may be recycled to build new planes. Some valuable instruments and circuit boards may be reconditioned with certificates and used as spares for planes which are in service.

@MidnightVisions 3 жыл бұрын

Boeing and Airbus fuselages are designed to flex during pressurization, which causes the lifespan issue. McDonnel Douglas DC-9 and DC-10 series were designed to NOT flex during pressurization, so pressurization cycles do not apply. I worked on a DC-10 that had over 190,000 hours when it was retired.

@aotrieu4234 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting sir, would you like to elaborate?

@GoogleGebruiker 5 ай бұрын

Elaborate, because as far as I know every airplane is pressurized at altitude.

@kodyadams5561 4 ай бұрын

WE REALLY NEED TO INFORM YOUR SHRINK TO INCREASE YOUR DELUSIONAL MEDS. EVERY COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT IN THE WORLD FLEXS DURING PRESSURIZATION THERE IS NOW WAY AROUND IT. YOUR MOTHER SAID THE ONLY AIRCRAFT YOU EVER WORKED ON WAS A PAPER AIRPLANE IN THE SANITARIUM WERE YOU GREW UP IN . 😂😂😂😂

@tedstarr7942 2 ай бұрын

Got news for you. All fuselages will flex to some extent depending on the actual design. It is all a matter of degree and where the design stress is located on the S-N curve (stress level versus number of cycles the metal is exposed to). Back to Engineering 101. There sre no absolutes.

@russwane 3 жыл бұрын

Soo many plane puns !!!

@aberobin4926 3 жыл бұрын

Convert them all into isolation or quarantine abodes

@thiruvetti 3 жыл бұрын

Even thinking of living inside a Aircraft converted into a bed room is making me claustrophobic. But yes, it could be apt for a restaurant.

@Leopard_211 Жыл бұрын

Planes aren't that small, are they smaller than they look when you are inside it?

@jirik777 3 жыл бұрын

I need that desk for my office!

@raykusengsky2205 3 жыл бұрын

Cool content

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@ArgonDavid 3 жыл бұрын

Recycling parts is the innovative way and Earth saving for future generations.

@locofurioso 3 жыл бұрын

Which begs the question. Are the 787 and soon to be produced 797 a disruptor in this market? They are essentially immortal planes as they have no metal to fatigue. All u need to do is re-engine them and refit them with new interiors and voila a “brand new airplane “.

@79Gravity 3 жыл бұрын

thats just wrong :) you need the "intire"insides of a plane also, just not the metal.. plane is way more than just metal.. just imagine how well wires run on bare metal.. so :) making a new one is cheaper.. right? immortal is a bad word to even use.. its one of those famous last ones, im "immortal" in my "brand new airplane".. sure you are :D some questions dont need to even be asked.. even if you beg

@andrewdoesyt7787 3 жыл бұрын

It’s sad how many military planes are being trashed, but you only need so many, and you need to take care of them well.

@79Gravity 3 жыл бұрын

ye they should sell them to private people :) that would make it more interesting

@davemiller6055 Жыл бұрын

I know a guy who works for the Gold Reserve Corporation, a mining company. He told me that if you want to know where old cars go, they are all being used as taxicabs in Caracas, Venezuala.

@mihastih 3 жыл бұрын

There is also one graveyard in Teurel, Spain. Some big jets there

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@christophermikrowelle7093 2 жыл бұрын

Teruel, not Teurel.

@Ken.Howard 3 жыл бұрын

From Australia: possibly the same thing that happens to AEROPLANES outside the USA! LOL

@sharptoothtrex4486 Ай бұрын

Even smaller jets also make great Interpol and Olympic Team athlete private jet options.

@RychList 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and informative 👍😀

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@lenny108 5 ай бұрын

0:50 Metal fatigue might happen with the wings and where the wings are attached. And the landing gear. This is where one could start making these parts easily replaceable.

@davidreitter4457 2 ай бұрын

Museum of Flight in Seattle really an historic end for yesterdays airborne culture.

@HussainKaiser 9 ай бұрын

Can be converted them as a Library, Small Hospital, Clinic, small shop, food corner, small pub or music cafe, Pre School, small movie Theater, children playground, swimming pool, aquarium, flower/vegetable/Fruit garden, laundry center, corporate office, hotel/motel, museum etc

@codymcnary3607 5 ай бұрын

Seems a little disrespectful considering the engineering feet that the aircraft was originally designed for! Like turning a Decommissioned Military ship into a Group Home for Mentally Challenged People!

@anwerabdallah569 3 жыл бұрын

كل شي له نهاية حتى بني ادم. و لا يبقى الا وجه ربي ذو الجلال و الاكرام

@tomboard1 2 жыл бұрын

The newest B-52H is 60 years old. Some will be over a 100 years old when they are finally retired. So I guess it is possible to keep a plane flying indefinitely if your throw enough refurbishment at it.

@nczioox1116 2 жыл бұрын

they also dont have nearly the same number of flights as regular passenger planes

@codymcnary3607 5 ай бұрын

Anything is possible if You put money in preventative maintenance and regular maintenance! The Aircraft industry is now into planned obsolescence more than ever! So Sad!

@PRH123 5 ай бұрын

All aluminum aircraft have a known maximum number of takeoff and landing cycles, based on the engineers’ calculations of metal fatigue. I think that for a 747 it’s something like 50,000. The highest time airplane of all time is a DC3 with something like 90,000+ flying hours. It’s around 85 years old. So an aircraft can’t be used beyond the original design limits. Military aircraft actually get very little use. Some types can be retired with as little as 5000-10,000 hours, and it may take them decades to accumulate that much time.

@Delosian 2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they aren't selling the old fighter planes to museums all around the world. Strip out the guts but leave only the visible parts so that they're not functional but people can still have a look at them.

@tomboard1 2 жыл бұрын

Museums do receive certain aircraft once they're retired.

@TheInsaneChef Ай бұрын

Those 39 year old planes even with all the hours on them, are still safer than what boing "cranks" out today

@datsaintskid3406 3 жыл бұрын

Now this what I’m talkin bout

@anbaha5793 3 ай бұрын

اللهم بارك لي في ما بقى من عمري و اصلح لي شؤوني كلها و اشفيني بحولك و قوتك لا شفاء الا شفاءك يا الله انت الشافي المعافي .

@dnoel11 14 күн бұрын

McDonald's in a DC-3?! Hell yeah!

@chromebomb 3 жыл бұрын

i like the idea of kindergarden in decommissioned regional jets

@No-ph9nh 3 жыл бұрын

Omg cool

@floydwegienka6582 2 жыл бұрын

In Tucson, Arizona there is a fuselage that houses a lap pool

@biker_marinator5696 3 жыл бұрын

It's not true manufacturor doesnt want to repair turbine blades. The repair cost is 30-50% of new component. I should know, cos I work in a turbine business.

@olanrewajuadam7499 3 жыл бұрын

I think you should know the difference in the usage of turbine blades and an aircraft engine blades.

@indianjedi 3 жыл бұрын

start collecting parts for the space city :)

@javedqwert 3 жыл бұрын

v good video

@rickywalker3154 3 ай бұрын

I've been to the old Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs before.

@lenny108 5 ай бұрын

Passenger aircraft are too expensive that they can simply be scrapped like an old washing machine. Of course there is a big question about what could be done with the planes.

@markadamovsky5728 5 ай бұрын

In Mykolayiv(the city in the South of Ukraine) also was a plane which was reconstructed after its flying service. It's was the cinema inside fuselage. The model- Il(ilushin)62. When I was a child I liked to watch cartoons in the plane-cinema

@savapettygaming9603 3 жыл бұрын

So this is how planeyards looks like🙄it's awesome

@freeman8128 5 ай бұрын

The word is AEROPLANE, not "airplane". My information is from THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, published by Oxford University Press. Currently running at 20 large volumes, it is the most comprehensive, universally respected and authoritative English Dictionary in the world.

@lithepear9129 3 жыл бұрын

1:57 “and run into the ground, metaphorically” you sure about that? Don’t you mean physically? 😂

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@spaceguy564 5 ай бұрын

I have to believe that using shipping containers or some other prefab structures is way more economical than using an old airplane.

@Nick41622 5 ай бұрын

If all the airplanes were on the ground there would be no room to store them all.

@captnjim44smith74 2 жыл бұрын

At the regional airport in Tupelo, MS (TUP) many aircraft are recycled, including 747s !

@Roger-sn9ov 2 жыл бұрын

I wish i could visit Arizona, and walk around all the planes..Better trip then 2 weeks on the beach..lol..

@scopex2749 3 ай бұрын

I have 2 first class aircraft seats in my camper van - WITH TRAY TABLES and DVD. ALL ABOARD.

@A.B.C.58 3 жыл бұрын

amazing video everyone must just know knowvits retirement and post retirement use wisely. it is really my wish to buy a small flight for conversion as a house but I can only dream. I am poor. can't even travel in a flight. thank you very much for the video. please upload similar such thought provoking videos.

@shauryakhetan3196 2 жыл бұрын

dream big mate, try and save up for some local flights..they cost around 50-100 dollars, one day, that will be pocket change for u ;)

@Helix0067 5 ай бұрын

I think a lot of airplane enthusiasts would love the cockpit to be sold.

@myalaynaangel Жыл бұрын

Convert them into HOMES..... They could be beautiful homes once converted.

@sebastianamatthews9483 3 жыл бұрын

Non body understanding, too much production, has destroyed our Globo. Where are you going to through way millions of planes? Greed is the most problem in our lives. From Brazil

@misterbig9025 3 жыл бұрын

How about C-47 in service with South African Air Force?

@ruditrollip4834 10 ай бұрын

Make the old aircrafts homes for the poor and let them live in it

@gamingvoyager9540 3 жыл бұрын

Could use the left over body as giant tanks weld everything closed clean or out or scrap it and melt it and mold giant tanks

@prof.dr.christianrieck806 3 жыл бұрын

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@sharonmiller6436 7 ай бұрын

Probably not, as the volume could result in extremely heavy loads that the bare shell would not have the strength to hold without major problems.

@ShakespeareCafe 5 ай бұрын

So basically it’s a crap shoot your plane’s fuselage might burst or a counterfeit part might fail.

@FUTURAGAEL 2 жыл бұрын

Min 4:17 Mc Donnell Douglas DC-9-30

@starguard4122 4 ай бұрын

Question: Why do Airplane Graveyards cover up Cockpits and Windows of planes during storage?

@StetsonWade 3 жыл бұрын

Old planes die hard

@inayathkhan100 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video very informative useful 👍

@chickenhater 3 жыл бұрын

@6:45 I guess they found MH370?

@donaldhollingsworth3875 4 ай бұрын

I would think that the engines which be the most lucrative spare parts which can be be rebuilt multiple times & maybe the landing gear.

@alexalexov6019 2 ай бұрын

Спасибо за интересный рассказ

@larscedwall2376 3 ай бұрын

Old airplanes get older....

@thomasricciuto358 2 жыл бұрын

Turn them into public housing

@Baral__Aayush Жыл бұрын

In Nepal the plane age is infinite planes never get old and aviation keeps running and running until planes get into the deadliest crash

@samlebon9884 3 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peaces airplanes.

@lilbashirali 3 жыл бұрын

But then the air force still uses the same old cold war bombers ?

@Dodener 3 жыл бұрын

not really, they are upgraded to modern standards

@sanashams322 3 жыл бұрын

Make the 747 as a rc planes for rraning pilot leesly

@toysrus2413 5 ай бұрын

Dumped in sea = innovative transformation into an artificial reef

@mmoarchives2542 3 жыл бұрын

all that metal that could be melted down and reused in manufacturing

@tomboard1 2 жыл бұрын

It is eventually. Practically nothing of those aircraft goes to waste.

@robertkattner1997 3 ай бұрын

Same with old wind turbines. Can't be recycled. Off to landfill.

@felip3ruiz 2 жыл бұрын

I live next to Mojave and yes has a lot of airplanes.

@pats4381 2 жыл бұрын

If I can afford , I will take one and make it to a floating home!

@kewlztertc5386 Жыл бұрын

Cargo planes aren't pressurized, does this mean they have indefinite lifespan?

@tomarmstrong1281 5 ай бұрын

"What happens to old aeroplanes"? Some go into museums, and the rest rot or get broken up. They once were the latest and the greatest in killing machines. The finest men could fashion, representing endless resources and eye-watering amounts of money. There are more coming out of factories all around the world today. One day, maybe when our societies have grown up, they will nolonger be necessary. Imagine what the world would be like then.

@ashishkushwaha9944 3 жыл бұрын

Convert these planes in Hospital 🏥 for homeless ppl out there in Covid19..... hope this idea will work out.... Pray for the world 🌎 to recover from this pandemic!!

@craighalloran4846 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there you can use plans as car parts

@tonypedigo4969 3 жыл бұрын

Lets use these vast resources to house the homeless from around the nation. Talk to your congressman and plant this seed idea. They already come with equipment that still works onboard to make power. Solar panels and gardens can be introduced to ensure longevity.

@kevinbushracing58 2 жыл бұрын

K..

@tgbayesola 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a possibility that it is all these lifespan exhausted planes that are being refurbished and sold to low income earning countries?

@codymcnary3607 5 ай бұрын

Why is the B-52 Bomber designed to last 100 years since it was designed?!

@royalbloodedledgend 3 жыл бұрын

Airplane heaven

@relaxationstation7374 2 ай бұрын

Yes Sir, I have an excellent idea for retired aircraft, my dream to transitioning from a 37 year career veteran commercial truck owner operator to an international cargo jet owner operator! A bit of structural reinforcement, retro-upgraded engines and a modern suite of updated flight systems and wallah, you have an entirely new industry of repurposed defunkt commercial jetliners.

@rickwilliams967 3 ай бұрын

In reality though, they're just left to rot, instead of reusing the materials. Kinda stupid really. Much like unsold cars that are perfectly useable still, but since they won't get money, nobody is allowed to.

@FLYwithme61 7 ай бұрын

👌🏻👌🏻

@gautamsriswk7886 3 жыл бұрын

some scrap jet cockpit may turn simulator for aircraft trainee

@job38four10 5 ай бұрын

I'd love just having a jet at my house for storage or garage, I think millions of poor folks like would love that. So lets start turning old jets into storage units.........