over the past 24 years this plane is
flown enough to circle the world 1,200
times
now it’s arrived at a desert tarmac in
Goodyear Arizona
this is the home of arrow turbine a
company that specializes in all things
aircraft
go ahead prepuce Roger Hodges is the
maintenance manager usually he repairs
aircraft but this one is different for
one good reason it’s worth more dead
than a life basically this 747 is now
beyond repair it’s old and too expensive
to maintain but rather than trash it
Roger will make sure it’s carefully
pulled apart piece by piece just like
cars or anything else aren’t going to
last forever there’s still many parts
within the airframe and engines that are
work sent in to overhaul thirty percent
of this airplane will be utilized in
future simple sentence
the Jumbos parts are so interchangeable
because the planes basic design has
changed little since its first
commercial flight in 1970
back then it took several hundred people
and four months to make a plane
now just a handful of mechanics will
attempt to tear one apart in only 12
weeks
among them Derek fiber he runs the crew
from the ground will get an air with a
ratchet and that’s acha didn’t get him
out wild bone break is in charge of
snakes on this plane well Pete Faulkner
will try to dodge them oh good Jesus all
our experts in their own right
only one problem none of them have ever
pulled apart an aircraft this big
this is a first boy 747 is the biggest
aircraft we have to tear down so far all
right ready it’s by far maybe the
biggest challenge
it’s just huge we don’t want to damage
it we want to get hurt
everything we do will be a learning
experience they must rely heavily on the
manuals that were used to build this
plane more than two decades ago
big parts everything’s like four to five
times heavier than we’re accustomed to
take stoolie take slaves to be able to
handle that kind of weight
it’ll be a four-step process first
workers must gently remove the engines
for elephant-sized jets to be handled
like eggs delavega second they must
remove an inventory any resellable item
from piping to coffee makers 65 Bravo 9
Paul can return to service on other
aircraft
third they must extract hazardous
material like depleted uranium and take
it to a safe location
workers will also strip and trash
anything else of little value like
Warren seat covers and insulation
finally they must crush the remaining
metal so it can be melted into solid
bars of aluminum
and from there made into other objects
like electronics hardware even furniture
the aim is to recycle an incredible
ninety-eight percent of the aircraft and
reclaimed spare parts and scrap worth
about 6.8 million dollars
flown enough to circle the world 1,200
times
now it’s arrived at a desert tarmac in
Goodyear Arizona
this is the home of arrow turbine a
company that specializes in all things
aircraft
go ahead prepuce Roger Hodges is the
maintenance manager usually he repairs
aircraft but this one is different for
one good reason it’s worth more dead
than a life basically this 747 is now
beyond repair it’s old and too expensive
to maintain but rather than trash it
Roger will make sure it’s carefully
pulled apart piece by piece just like
cars or anything else aren’t going to
last forever there’s still many parts
within the airframe and engines that are
work sent in to overhaul thirty percent
of this airplane will be utilized in
future simple sentence
the Jumbos parts are so interchangeable
because the planes basic design has
changed little since its first
commercial flight in 1970
back then it took several hundred people
and four months to make a plane
now just a handful of mechanics will
attempt to tear one apart in only 12
weeks
among them Derek fiber he runs the crew
from the ground will get an air with a
ratchet and that’s acha didn’t get him
out wild bone break is in charge of
snakes on this plane well Pete Faulkner
will try to dodge them oh good Jesus all
our experts in their own right
only one problem none of them have ever
pulled apart an aircraft this big
this is a first boy 747 is the biggest
aircraft we have to tear down so far all
right ready it’s by far maybe the
biggest challenge
it’s just huge we don’t want to damage
it we want to get hurt
everything we do will be a learning
experience they must rely heavily on the
manuals that were used to build this
plane more than two decades ago
big parts everything’s like four to five
times heavier than we’re accustomed to
take stoolie take slaves to be able to
handle that kind of weight
it’ll be a four-step process first
workers must gently remove the engines
for elephant-sized jets to be handled
like eggs delavega second they must
remove an inventory any resellable item
from piping to coffee makers 65 Bravo 9
Paul can return to service on other
aircraft
third they must extract hazardous
material like depleted uranium and take
it to a safe location
workers will also strip and trash
anything else of little value like
Warren seat covers and insulation
finally they must crush the remaining
metal so it can be melted into solid
bars of aluminum
and from there made into other objects
like electronics hardware even furniture
the aim is to recycle an incredible
ninety-eight percent of the aircraft and
reclaimed spare parts and scrap worth
about 6.8 million dollars
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