Warbird Information Exchange

http://www.mytractorforum.com/showthread.php?t=243272



I think i will take a boat instead.

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Well if I can't rollerskate around my playpen while smoking and drinking a beer, I'm staying home..

Sorry, but this lie has been going around for some time.

Read the actual post and you'll notice a lot of inconsistencies, like calling the shipping straps "seatbelts".

There has never been anyone to find the real source of these photos, but suffice it to say, it wasn't from any "Chinese Airline" because over the years, it's claimed to be airlines from "South Africa", "Asia" and other areas and countries. Never once has the story included a specific airline, a specific flight, or a specific date, 3 things you need to be able to verify it as true. That should have been the first tip that the story was nothing more than another fictional story like the one about the Capital Airlines 727 that ran through hail on approach into Toronto. As I knew the flight crew that was on that flight (they were regulars into Denver while I worked there), I contacted the FE one the flight and he verified the whole original story (including that he FO quit when the flight landed) was completely untrue.

I think I've seen pics of that engine before. I want to say that it was strapped and carried as a 5th engine on a necessary crew only ferry flgiht for a very short distance. There was something about not being able to pull the fan blades as normal for doing this and the engineering types got approval to strap the fan to keep if from turning and not using the normal covers.

Yeah, I've seen this many times before. Snopes has debunked it: http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/airchina.asp

You'll note that the engines are not hung (as they would be backwards!), but on dollies. From the little bit of the fuselage visible behind it certainly looks like an Air China 747 but that may simply be a coincidence.

BTW, the blade damage looks to be conducive with either a bird strike or volcanic ash. If it was Air China, both are reasonable explanations for having damage like that without it being a maintenance issue.

Another hoax debunked at WIX. Thanks

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Well if I can't rollerskate around my playpen while smoking and drinking a beer, I'm staying home..

As much as we may want it to be true, it isn't. The seatbelts are used to keep the fan blades from free-wheeling on the ground and during transport. The airline I work for uses cotton clothes line.

And it looks like you'd need a brick file to blend those blades!

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Ah this old chestnut!!! The "Seatbelts" are infact Boeing/GE/PW aproved engine "Gags" In the picture you can actualy make out a part number painted on it. The gags are about 15 foot long and you thread them through the guide vanes behind the fan. Funnily enough the fan gags on the PW/GE powered 747-400 have a different buckle!
How do I know??? I have fitted this type of fan gag to a 747-200 (PW) for a three engine ferry flight back to it's main base.

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