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Originally Posted by Flieger
You have my respect.
I saw a TV program, I think it was on National Geographic or something about their emergency repair team. If a plane runs off the end of a runway in a far away land they would go with the part and get it ready to fly.
The TV program was them repairing/replacing the aft bulkhead for the pressure cabin. I think it was a tail strike due to over-rotation or something.
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That was us. I didn't make that particular trip (it was in Paris, too, dang it), but that's what we do, and that's the crew I do it with. I designed all of the tooling for that job, an aft pressure bulkhead replacement (due to a tail strike). The guy with the white hardhat, running the overhead crane (using the pendant) is my partner Jason, who sits right next to me when we are all home.