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Airbus A310 being dismantled with the forward section of a Boeing 747 at Pinal Airpark. Aircraft recycling is the process of scrapping and disassembling retired aircraft, and re-purposing their parts as spare parts or scrap.
The 747 Supertanker is a retired aerial firefighting airtanker derived from various Boeing 747 models. The aircraft is rated to carry up to 19,600 US gallons (74,000 L) of fire retardant or water .
The company was founded by Jenks Caldwell Sr. in 1953. Today the company is run by his son Jenks Caldwell Jr. The company's main business is reselling refurbished aircraft parts which it acquires by purchasing used aircraft and stripping them of their useful parts, storing them until required, and re-furbishing them before sale to the customer.
The Boeing Business Jet 747-8i is one of the largest private jets in the world used primarily by governments and the world's most elite people.
Dismantled and its remains used in January 2005 to provide the setting for a plane crash scene in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Preserved in the same condition as the film. [citation needed] EC-IAF 747-256B March 24, 1981 1981 October 23, 2001 Iberia; Air Atlanta Icelandic; Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, La Coruña, Spain.
The Boeing Dreamlifter, officially the 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner. With a volume of 65,000 cubic feet (1,840 m 3 ) [ 1 ] it can hold three times that of a 747-400F freighter. [ 2 ]
Pratt & Whitney faced difficulties with the JT9D design during the Boeing 747 test program. Engine failures during the flight test program resulted in thirty aircraft being parked outside the factory with concrete blocks hanging from the pylons, awaiting redesigned engines. Boeing and Pratt & Whitney worked together in 1969 to solve the problem.
A diagram of the aft pressure bulkhead of the Boeing 747 used on Japan Air Lines Flight 123. Multiple instances of damage to the aft pressure bulkhead have occurred; while a few cases have led to serious failures leading to aircraft losses, others have proven to be survivable.