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Where Are The World's Largest Aircraft Maintenance Facilities?

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Aircraft are complex machines that require immaculate maintenance, repair, and overhaul at various intervals throughout their lifetime. Aircraft are subject to extreme wear due to varying environmental and operational conditions. Extensive maintenance facilities are required to carry out such operations, whether the engine overhaul or heaving maintenance on a jetliner. With thousands of parts, aircraft maintenance operations comprise hundreds of processes. Irrespective of the aircraft size,… (simpleflying.com) Mehr...

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gbo25
Graham Bwdn 5
What's heaving maintenance? Is that cleaning up the cabin after a bunch of airsick pax deplane 🤣
21voyageur
21voyageur 4
Hahahah. Another example of the non-existent editor(s) syndrome, let alone simple proofreading on this site. Perhaps the author should take a walk through the Tulsa AA facility to get a sense of what quality control is all about. Sheesh.
Kairho
Kairho Carroll 3
Also, the size of AA's Tulsa facility being but "33 acres" sounded almost impossible. A quick search showed the real (and more reasonable) size of 330 acres.
Frosty1025
Frosty1025 3
It is a new app that gets the passengers closer to “heaven”. It is based on how much money you pay for your ticket. The more money you pay the further away you get to “heaven”.
xmitr
Don Whyte 1
33 acres equals 1.437,480 square feet so I guess the maintenance hangers must be two stories for there to be "over 3,000,000 square feet"...

One of my pet peeves is the spelling of manufacturers as manufactures. Didn't see that here thankfully.
xmitr
Don Whyte 2
Sorry hangars not hangers. Guess we all can make typos, even super intelligent guys like me.
SerenWittkopp
Serena Wittkopp 1
Very informative and comforting article!

--Serena Wittkopp, B.A.

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21voyageur
21voyageur 2
This site has morphed from a content site of general interest to a noise / eyeball capture site since its purchase by Collins Aerospace.
bentwing60
bentwing60 2
It's toilet bowl swirl began well before that.
royhunte92
Roy Hunte 1
It's also the playground of one salty old linbb that rarely has anything of worth to say.
mbrews
mbrews 1
Agreed. website would be improved, by adding had a block / ignore button or setting

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