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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2008 19:50:16 GMT 12
I know what it is, I took the photo. I'm just wondering if you can guess. This is a digital photo of a print as I don't have a scanner to hand...
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Post by lumpy on Jun 13, 2008 19:56:58 GMT 12
The very tip of a vertical stabiliser/ rudder , under repair . Perhaps a collision witha hangar door ?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2008 20:07:42 GMT 12
You're right it is the very top of a Boeing 747 from Air New Zealand, undergoing a full maintenance that saw the whole thing stipped down to the bare bones. I was lucky to go with Dad to the workshops there with the Waikato Branch of the RNZAS as Dad was a member. We also went up the tower at Mangere. Would you like to see other photos? By the way Lumpy, have a choclate fish
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Post by lumpy on Jun 13, 2008 20:14:11 GMT 12
yum , choclate fish ! Please do post other photos ( I must confess , it would have been harder if you had held out for the type of aircraft )
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2008 20:38:01 GMT 12
OK. The photos are all quickly snapped with the digital off prints. If you'd like to see any of the prints scanned properly let me know but I don't think they're that interesting personally. A nice record of a great day out with my late Dad though. We did this trip twice actually, this time when I took my stills camera and then later about 1995 or 1996 the Aeronatical Society did another tour of Mangere and instead of the tower we went to Ardmore and Glyn Powell's outfit wen it was at te Atatu. I had a video camera but Air NZ wouldn't allow film or photos the second trip. The view from the ATC tower. I wonder if the view has changed much in 15 years?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2008 21:10:49 GMT 12
This is the scaffolding around the tail that we climbed Dad standing by the nose, a unique way to view a Boeing 747, nose to nose. This is inside looking the Boeing from the starboard doorway. Almost the whole length was a confusing mess of wiring and things like this. How on earth they put it all back together right each time is beyond me, it looked like one of those planes your see in a wreckers yard with it's innards hanging out.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2008 21:37:17 GMT 12
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Post by lumpy on Jun 13, 2008 21:54:10 GMT 12
Interesting photos . Seeing the photo of the wiring reminds me of being shown the prototype Kahu A4 part way through . It had similar size bundles of wires , but a MUCH smaller space to fit them in . There is definitly some black magic involved in making this stuff work ! ( I needed two goes just to make my car stereo to go ) ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2008 22:08:02 GMT 12
These are the last ones I think. It was the tallest hangar I have ever been into. Is it perhaps the tallest in NZ? These are back to front on chronology by the way, this is when we were going in towards the hangar, there were a couple more aircraft waiting their turn outside. And this Malaysian Airlines aeroplane was next in the hangar from memory, and our guide told us Air New Zealand had been flying it for a bit as a short lease replacement at the time if I recall right.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jun 14, 2008 12:39:53 GMT 12
Good photos of your engineering visit Dave.
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Jun 14, 2008 12:44:46 GMT 12
What would happen if the guy in photo 1 droped his screwdriver down one of those holes?,would it fall all the way down to the fuselage....... ;D
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