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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on July 06, 2014, 10:57:21 AM
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Anyone seen Sully?
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Airline-fuselages-to-be-pulled-from-Montana-river-5601936.php#photo-6559051
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Those are brand new. Hope they had insurance!
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something is not right. I always thought you cant put anything on a railroad car that is longer than the rail car. reason is you cannot secure it. as if you secure something to 2 railroad cars then either the straps will break or the object will get damaged as the train goes thru a curve.
semp
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Could be extra long railcars.
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I hope those fuselages scrapped and not made flight worthy.
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something is not right. I always thought you cant put anything on a railroad car that is longer than the rail car. reason is you cannot secure it. as if you secure something to 2 railroad cars then either the straps will break or the object will get damaged as the train goes thru a curve.
semp
What's not right is you didn't investigate how boeing (and airbus) manufactures their airframes and the great efforts they make to transport the large structures to the final assembly plant :lol They've paid for huge amounts of work on transportation infrastructure to ensure they can get the sub-assemblies from place to place. That apparently includes some railroad routes that have gentle enough curves for oversize cargo. In other areas they've widened roads, rebuilt bridges to make them taller, found waterway routes, etc.
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I hope those fuselages scrapped and not made flight worthy.
Yea. Me too. It's even money whether or not they scrap or refurb them. Do they pay to refurb them and keep aside a little for liability insurance, or scrap them or re-purpose them for training aids, or... If there isn't a public outcry though, I bet they get put into flying service.
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If there isn't a public outcry though, I bet they get put into flying service.
Give them a salvage title and sell them in Asia.
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Give them a salvage title and sell them in Asia.
I don't think anyone in Asia has a 737 assembly line and could use partially built fuselages...
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Boeing737train.jpg)
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wow and they dumped three of them?
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The train carried six fuselages. Three others also fell off but stayed on land. Frost says Boeing has had workers at the scene assessing the damage.
I don't think anyone in Asia has a 737 assembly line and could use partially built fuselages...
All they need is a hanger and some Foxconn workers.
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I see a custom built car longer than normal. now it makes sense.
semp
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I don't think anyone in Asia has a 737 assembly line and could use partially built fuselages...
they are most likely gonna be sold to an asian company. as scrap metal. that's where we sell a lot of our steel anyway. man i wish I could get some of that aluminum. at 2 bucks a lb it would make some nice recycling :)
semp
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Gives new meaning to Rapid transit. :D
Waters fine, room for one more. :eek:
Take the train to the plane to the scrapyard. :cry
What sound did they hear when they fell off? Boeinggggg :bolt:
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Could be extra long railcars.
Which is okay as long as there are no curves en route what a sufficiently tight radius and sufficiently close railside obstacles that an interference condition would obtain... But I'm with Semp. Something is wrong here, possibly that there are 3 fuselages in a f***ing stream...
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Boeing paid for upgrades to the lines so they could ship the fuselages.
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Which is okay as long as there are no curves en route what a sufficiently tight radius and sufficiently close railside obstacles that an interference condition would obtain... But I'm with Semp. Something is wrong here, possibly that there are 3 fuselages in a f***ing stream...
I say make them into water slides. they're already there why waste money taking them out. make it a tourist atraction :).
semp
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Looks like it already is a tourist attraction