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2013-10-13 01:01
in Flying, Nflying
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Arturo had been wanting to go for many years and scored a couple of tickets this year, so he invited me and we went together this year.
He picked me up and we drove a special parking lot at SFO and got in the maintenance employee entrance:
One hangar had planes on display and MX people answering questions on how they do maintenance. That was interesting:
they use eddie currents to see invisible cracks
engines sitting outside pre or post maintenance
We got to visit the test cell, a very interesting part of the visit:
this is where the engines get overhauled and tested
impressive facility to test engines (they get tested for over 8H)
mega blast door in case the engine disintegrates
Planes on display were nice, including plane pulling contests
warmup for the plane pull
it would be fun if we used them to tow planes from now on :)
Emergency slide deployment
Plane tours
Yes Arturo, this is what coach looks like. That's where other people sit :)
They also had random other planes and cars for display:
the fire truck was cool
Sky writing, dot matrix style:
And that was it. The only thing we messed up on was not getting in line to see the 747 cockpit very early on before a crazy line started, but oh well. |
