Nose needs a little work.

[benhasajeep]

D3300 and 18-55 kit and 55-200kit lenses. A day at work for me. This is a 777-200ER. We are changing the nose cowl due to some wear / damage inside the inlet. For scale in the first picture the guy on the work stand is 6'2" tall and is standing on the 7th step of an 8' stand. This is a Rolls Royce Trent 800 powerplant with 90,000# thrust rating. It is a fully computer controlled motor, only electrical wires to the cockpit. The computer is under the large black cover with all the wiring going to it. Well over $1milion for the computer alone. The third picture the inlet is so large it has to be turned flat for shipping. Still needs a wide load permit as the crate it comes in is almost 13' wide. Picture 4 is the Fan, it is 110" from blade tip to the blade tip across from it. Picture 5 is the WHITE nose cowl going on. Of note it used to be Maroon. We sold it as a spare. They painted it white. We bought it back becuase our other spares were in use or in repairs. I have been told once we get one back. We are going to remove the white one and sell it back to them as spares?????

 

[Clovishound]

That's a little bigger than the TF-33s on the C-141 I used to fly on as a loadmaster. Of course, we had 4 engines.

 

[benhasajeep]

That's a little bigger than the TF-33s on the C-141 I used to fly on as a loadmaster. Of course, we had 4 engines.

4 decades in design difference between your TF-33 / JT-3 and these new big guys, GE's are even bigger. Buy your 4 still would not match this one.
One of my co-workers who retired last year retired from the AF originally and he was a 141 crew chief. He loved the plane.

 

[Clovishound]

Despite a few upgrades, it was still an old school transport when they retired them. I retired when they started sending them to the boneyard rather than cross-train to the C-17 to get a few more years in.

 

[Sandpatch]

Wow, the scale of your work is something to behold. Best not to leave a tool behind! I'm guessing this is not in the U.S.? I see no hardhats, safety glasses, gloves, steel-toed shoes and other stuff that I'd imagine would be required. I worked in paper mills and someone in Corporate established a rule requiring three points of contact while climbing on or working with ladders. That left just one hand to do the work!

 

[benhasajeep]

Wow, the scale of your work is something to behold. Best not to leave a tool behind! I'm guessing this is not in the U.S.? I see no hardhats, safety glasses, gloves, steel-toed shoes and other stuff that I'd imagine would be required. I worked in paper mills and someone in Corporate established a rule requiring three points of contact while climbing on or working with ladders. That left just one hand to do the work!

Nope in the US. Though we do have US based guys in Europe (they normally work 20 days on 10 off). They are more for taking care of the small stuff to keep them moving. Also on most flights we have mechanics onboard (we fly 180min ETOPS all planes and it takes extra maintenance each time we fly over open ocean).