On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 17:42:18 GMT, Yenc@yenc-post.org (Gramps) wrote:
I worked for boeing in the mid seventies. upgrading 52's from D to H
models except they didn't go for wet wing for some reason. I worked in
wing join on a jig about 10 - 15 feet in the air. There where 3 wing
join jigs and 1 de-join jig, where they cut the wings off the center
section to be rebuilt as was the center section. I remember looking at
a wing on the de-join jig there were numerous cracks in the trailing
edge stop drilled, patches everywhere. My roommate worked at boeing,
he worked on what they called the cigar line. Which was several
fuselages ( 6 or 8 I can't remember ) in a row side by side. The
fuselages had the gear down, but fuselages where jacked up off the
floor so the gear was not touching the floor. One of the guys he
worked with was walking by the gear and noticed a crack. Well they
started checking the rest of the "cigars" and they all had cracked
gear. Unit 1 was in the paint shop, so they took the x-ray equipment
over there and it also had cracks. So although it's sad to see these
planes being unceremoniously destroyed like that, I'm sure the
airforce picked high hour planes for destruction. So my long assed
story here is, just that you reach a point where they are not worth
rebuilding/fixing anymore.
Gramps
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