Walking through the maintenance Hangar…

[MeCasa16]

Went through the Maintenance Hangar the other day and thought I would share some cool pics. The amount of stuff they can do in house is incredible. I didn’t take pics in the paint shop or sheet metal shop, but it is equally impressive what they can do there. They have some massive presses to fabricate all kinds of cool parts for the planes. The engine shop has 7 bays to assemble or take apart new motors at one time. They probably have 8 or more of each ready to go at any moment. They can swap out a jet engine on a plane in about 3 hours. This is a 737-900 Max and a Leap 1-b motor. The titanium and carbon fiber fan blades are so cool.

One of the most amazing things though, are the carts the mechanics build for fallen service members. All these carts are built on volunteer time by employees. They ship them out to all of our stations, hoping they never have to be used.

Looks like they added the Space Force now alongside the other branches. This particular cart is for one of the stations in Washington, you can see they have a Washington state flag inside.

 

[zhandfull]

Wow! Thanks for sharing. Everything is so clean and nice.

 

[4Waters]

That's awesome

 

[RitcheyRch]

What service are they doing on that airplane? That airplane went into service on 01/05/2022 and should only have about 5330 flight hours and 1501 flight cycles.

 

[MeCasa16]

What service are they doing on that airplane? That airplane went into service on 01/05/2022 and should only have about 5330 flight hours and 1501 flight cycles.

I don’t think it was anything major. They had a big tour coming through so I think that motor was just placed there. I didn’t ask them what specifically they were working on.

 

[RitcheyRch]

I don’t think it was anything major. They had a big tour coming through so I think that motor was just placed there. I didn’t ask them what specifically they were working on.

No worries. Could have just been an overnight maintenance call.

 

[MonkeyButt70]

After looking at that aircraft engineering, I hope they start hiring engineers based on equality and not skills...... That stuff is to nice and reliable.

 

[rrrr]

Thanks for the photos. Very cool.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

What service are they doing on that airplane? That airplane went into service on 01/05/2022 and should only have about 5330 flight hours and 1501 flight cycles.

"About"...

 

[LuauLounge]

Anyone seen a 10mm socket?

I am truly impressed by the behind the scenes operations. R&R a 737 engine in 3 hours is an amazing feat.

 

[02HoWaRd26]

Is this what you do for a living or was it just an opportunity to go in there?

 

[17 10 Flat]

Excellent write up and pics......very cool

 

[callbob]

Looking at the pic of the engine without the shroud amazes me and always wondered how the hell someone figured out how to do that. Mind boggling to me.

 

[Taboma]

Went through the Maintenance Hangar the other day and thought I would share some cool pics. The amount of stuff they can do in house is incredible. I didn’t take pics in the paint shop or sheet metal shop, but it is equally impressive what they can do there. They have some massive presses to fabricate all kinds of cool parts for the planes. The engine shop has 7 bays to assemble or take apart new motors at one time. They probably have 8 or more of each ready to go at any moment. They can swap out a jet engine on a plane in about 3 hours. This is a 737-900 Max and a Leap 1-b motor. The titanium and carbon fiber fan blades are so cool. View attachment 1275801 View attachment 1275802 View attachment 1275803 View attachment 1275804 View attachment 1275805 View attachment 1275806 View attachment 1275807 View attachment 1275808 View attachment 1275809

One of the most amazing things though, are the carts the mechanics build for fallen service members. All these carts are built on volunteer time by employees. They ship them out to all of our stations, hoping they never have to be used. View attachment 1275811 View attachment 1275812 View attachment 1275813 View attachment 1275814
Looks like they added the Space Force now alongside the other branches. This particular cart is for one of the stations in Washington, you can see they have a Washington state flag inside.

Very Cool, thanks for taking us along

 

[rivrrts429]

Is this what you do for a living or was it just an opportunity to go in there?

If I remember right he’s a commercial airline pilot.

 

[MeCasa16]

Is this what you do for a living or was it just an opportunity to go in there?

I fly them.

 

[Dog boy]

Went through the Maintenance Hangar the other day and thought I would share some cool pics. The amount of stuff they can do in house is incredible. I didn’t take pics in the paint shop or sheet metal shop, but it is equally impressive what they can do there. They have some massive presses to fabricate all kinds of cool parts for the planes. The engine shop has 7 bays to assemble or take apart new motors at one time. They probably have 8 or more of each ready to go at any moment. They can swap out a jet engine on a plane in about 3 hours. This is a 737-900 Max and a Leap 1-b motor. The titanium and carbon fiber fan blades are so cool. View attachment 1275801 View attachment 1275802 View attachment 1275803 View attachment 1275804 View attachment 1275805 View attachment 1275806 View attachment 1275807 View attachment 1275808 View attachment 1275809

One of the most amazing things though, are the carts the mechanics build for fallen service members. All these carts are built on volunteer time by employees. They ship them out to all of our stations, hoping they never have to be used. View attachment 1275811 View attachment 1275812 View attachment 1275813 View attachment 1275814
Looks like they added the Space Force now alongside the other branches. This particular cart is for one of the stations in Washington, you can see they have a Washington state flag inside.

I fly them.

Before I retied from Fedex in Las Vegas as an aircraft mechanic this is what happens with a catastrophic engine failure of a GE-90 on a triple seven.

 

[MeCasa16]

Before I retied from Fedex in Las Vegas as an aircraft mechanic this is what happens with a catastrophic engine failure of a GE-90 on a triple seven. View attachment 1276085 View attachment 1276086

Damn…. Those are wild pics. Fire is not something you want to be fighting in the air.

 

[Cobalt232]

Damn…. Those are wild pics. Fire is not something you want to be fighting in the air.

Luckily, this happened on the ground during taxi to depart.

 

[traquer]

Luckily, this happened on the ground during taxi to depart.

Damn. Yeah I was like that doesn't look right if it was mid-air, it would have been a goner.

 

[rrrr]

Luckily, this happened on the ground during taxi to depart.

Now I remember, think it was at LAS. Scary.

 

[86403]

Before I retied from Fedex in Las Vegas as an aircraft mechanic this is what happens with a catastrophic engine failure of a GE-90 on a triple seven. View attachment 1276085 View attachment 1276086

British Airways 2276
KLAS Sep 2015
Rejected takeoff due to uncontained engine failure
Aircraft was repaired and returned to service

 

[Dog boy]

British Airways 2276
KLAS Sep 2015
Rejected takeoff due to uncontained engine failure
Aircraft was repaired and returned to service

Correct take off roll at 80 knots stage 10 spool failed due to fatigue and ruptured fuel line feeding #1 engine.The aircraft was repaired in a about ninety day's and returned to service.The pic's I took are next to the FedEx ramp.