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  • In this full series supercut we take a look at 3 engineering marvels to uncover just how they were built, maintained, and even destroyed. Featuring the Boeing 747, the Lima Oil Platform and the MS Pride of Bruges.
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    00:00 Boeing 747
    58:38 Lima Oil Platform
    01:57:10 Pride Of Bruges
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Комментарии • 156

  • @insightmoto
    @insightmoto 16 дней назад +1

    The people who do that overhaul process are real masters. It's a super huge mission

  • @donlaight5943
    @donlaight5943 3 месяца назад +4

    The 747 video was amazing, equally amazing to see HSaW interpreted in different ways

  • @Sushi2735
    @Sushi2735 7 месяцев назад +12

    It’s always nice to watch a host who is so completely impressed with himself! Just extraordinary self confidence. Why?????? I have NO clue. Eaton boy perhaps?

    • @eisirt55
      @eisirt55 Месяц назад +1

      Wring accent for Eton, I would think .

    • @mustang19ms
      @mustang19ms 17 дней назад

      I didn't sense any arrogance

  • @ryanmcgowan3061
    @ryanmcgowan3061 7 месяцев назад +18

    36 million miles... *It could have flown to the moon and back 75 times.* Hard to imagine this.

  • @rexcamproductions.2191
    @rexcamproductions.2191 11 месяцев назад +23

    This was fantastic, thank you. I almost got teary-eyed watching the 747.

  • @Ladderswarehouse
    @Ladderswarehouse 5 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks to all the engineers at BAMC (CWL) - Cardiff international airport .

  • @chrislundberg1
    @chrislundberg1 8 месяцев назад +5

    Worked next to 747 wing production all string tied by hand, met the manager there was nice to take me on tour of aircraft. Installing cargo door at the time.

  • @ralphzoombeenie2330
    @ralphzoombeenie2330 10 месяцев назад +27

    Fully enjoyed the B747-400 overhaul. I flew them for 5 years for an Asian airline. The most satisfying of the Boeings types which I flew. On an autolanding the spoilers (speedbrake panels) and wheelbrakes will operate automatically when set otherwise perfect video. Couldn't bear to watch the final scrapping.

  • @bboyjohnwiz4993
    @bboyjohnwiz4993 6 месяцев назад +2

    Wow this is amazing, well put togethser.

  • @user-ot7jd9dt7t
    @user-ot7jd9dt7t 5 месяцев назад +5

    I'm convinced that engineers are the most skilled people on earth. You can learn how to drive any car, anywhere, anytime but working on one in the best of the best work shops is still difficult as hell

  • @user-nn3nd5xs2e
    @user-nn3nd5xs2e 6 месяцев назад +2

    Nice job love your work

  • @patminnick2813
    @patminnick2813 8 месяцев назад +2

    I'm only a passenger but I live about 100 miles from Atlanta so Delta is my go-to. I'll be mad at them forever for phasing out their 747's.😢😢😢😢

  • @lauradavis8949
    @lauradavis8949 7 месяцев назад +1

    LOVE 💘 THESE ENGINER S

  • @schweizerd6303
    @schweizerd6303 11 дней назад

    2:13:45 - looks like they tok inspiration from ailerons, flaps and slats on a plane and connected gyroscopes to its autopilot. I wonder if there is a similar to an IRS Alignment as part of startup

  • @sharoncassell5273
    @sharoncassell5273 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ive crawled inside wing to connect bolts . Completely dark. Narrow. And low. Flashlight only. Fuel was drained to replace the wing. C141 USAF 1980.

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Fire !

  • @dphotos007
    @dphotos007 4 месяца назад

    I flew on a British Airways business class in 2019 and it was the worst airline I have ever flown in business class. I was on an Airbus 380. The planes World Club seats which are still in the 380 planes alternate between forward and backwards facing, and every pair of seats features a divider that can be lowered to chat with a seatmate or to interact with flight attendants during meal service. This means that occasionally, the person in the aisle seat has food passed over their table, and when the divider is lowered, seatmates are facing each other rather than being side by side. It is an unusual setup and if offers little to no privacy. Remember a customer does pay a premium for those seats. My window seat was very uncomfortable and the food was just awful. Service was not good either. I was never greeted when I boarded the plane. Just looking at the seats being taken off the place. It proves there is little comfort to BA seats due to how light they were. The fabrics were all worn down. So far the best business class I have flown was American Airlines 777 planes. Very comfortable, private and the food was amazing. I was surprised how good their business class was. British Airways needs to hire new interior designers along with new chefs that design their meal service.

    • @user-uh4rk4ik7f
      @user-uh4rk4ik7f 3 месяца назад

      Wah... 😢

    • @biopsiesbeanieboos55
      @biopsiesbeanieboos55 2 месяца назад

      You are comparing modern BA to the old BA. Like all the legacy carriers, since 9/11, GFC and Covid, these companies now have an intimate understanding about how poorly they can treat customers and still have them return with open wallets. They have restructured themselves and now only exist for shareholder value (and the closely linked corporate bonuses) with customer experience not even in the top 5 priorities. We are in a different era, and the old way of doing things is gone forever…of that I am certain.

  • @Navyman825
    @Navyman825 3 месяца назад +1

    It was nice to see what RTC/NTC looked like from air. Most of the Navy base is gone, but you could make out some of the old buildings.

  • @j5jackson878
    @j5jackson878 16 дней назад

    42:03 yap! yap! yap! yap! yap! indeed!

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Can’t wait my seat 1

  • @JoshWhoFX
    @JoshWhoFX 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow so much inaccurate feets in this. Ignoring all the accidents like missing bolts and parts.

  • @peacefromraineydaze5289
    @peacefromraineydaze5289 10 месяцев назад

    wow, what was the price of a seat great video

  • @pauljones6608
    @pauljones6608 5 месяцев назад

    Not just any engine, an RB211! That bit makes me laugh.

  • @fernandlust532
    @fernandlust532 Год назад +5

    I remember a flight with a BA 747 to Manila. Feels like a century ago, as smoking was still allowed. As, apparently, there were not to much passengers in Business class, the flight crew gave me two seats. One in the smoking section On the lower deck, and one in the non/smoking section on the upper deck. One little problem though. I was in Manila, my luggage in London. And the luggage came in on the flight that I was to take to return. But BA gave me 100 USD in cash to buy what I needed, so, no problem. Overall, it was a very nice experience.

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones Год назад

      I was on what they told us was the first 747 flight to have paying passengers, from LA to DC, I think it was, in 1967, again, if memory serves.
      They asked us for our reactions after we landed and I suggested that it might be nice if they could attach the luggage bins to the ceiling so they didn't flap in the breeze quite so much.

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад

      @@TheDavidlloydjones Breeze? In a cigar tube 30,000 feet off the ground?

  • @Darkstar.....
    @Darkstar..... 10 месяцев назад

    That engineer doing the job of the clicker counting all night.
    No doubt that was a prank on the young fella.

  • @AKostanjevec
    @AKostanjevec 2 месяца назад

    The explanation regarding the lift force due to angle of attac is only a small partion of total lift force

  • @cayman9873
    @cayman9873 9 дней назад +1

    Women have been getting treated as not important forever. We women can do anything men can and do. ❤❤❤

  • @dabneyoffermein595
    @dabneyoffermein595 7 месяцев назад +4

    that's a lot of seat moving. those two guys are moving 3-row seating , row after row after row. Back-breaking work. I hope they get good retirement benefits and that the airline hasn't reduced their pensions and that their pensions were fully guaranteed and that they had a good 401K program and great benefits for medical, and a great bonus program and good increases every year. But it's the pension that I'm worried about most for them. I wish them a very lucrative retirement and the ability to travel the world without having to spend more than on a bag of chips. I heard the airlines have travel packages and even expenses paid. GO TO WORK FOR THE AIRLINES PEOPLE, DO IT NOW. some don't even do a BG check.

  • @RB25luv
    @RB25luv 10 месяцев назад +2

    🇺🇸💯🇺🇸AMERICAN POWER😍✅#🥇🌎USA

  • @j5jackson878
    @j5jackson878 Месяц назад

    Family cars have more than 120 horsepower these days.

  • @allytrudie864
    @allytrudie864 8 месяцев назад

    That engineer is Prince Williams “regular man” doppelgänger.

  • @SJR_Media_Group
    @SJR_Media_Group 11 месяцев назад +6

    Former Boeing Everett.... where giant aircraft are born in the world's biggest factory by the world's best aircraft mechanics.

  • @justme-dm7sb
    @justme-dm7sb 10 месяцев назад +2

    For someone who does not fly the commercials are in exactly the wrong places in the video, breaking up the the video right when they are about to execute their moves.

  • @mikewaterfield3599
    @mikewaterfield3599 6 месяцев назад

    Long live the Queen!

  • @gomersmith1061
    @gomersmith1061 4 месяца назад

    Aircrafts (sic)!
    😂😂😂

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    In total it generates a pour of over 200 tons of

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Help control the flow of oil and gas

  • @user-ev1dm9mk4e
    @user-ev1dm9mk4e 6 месяцев назад

    FUN

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Lands at 360 degrees

  • @thetruth3435
    @thetruth3435 7 месяцев назад +1

    how old is this program?

    • @brianfearn4246
      @brianfearn4246 5 месяцев назад +1

      According to the oil platform decommissioning on the underwater video date stamp it looks like 2010

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад +1

    Convertor produces 295 pounds of steel at a stoke

    • @douglascopeman4873
      @douglascopeman4873 21 день назад

      Super! My favorite airplane. Standing (almost)ovation arriving
      HNL.

  • @jonathanlatouche7013
    @jonathanlatouche7013 10 месяцев назад +1

    19:09/10

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Could weaken it possibly snapping in half

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    8 bolts all together

  • @deshutchinson9219
    @deshutchinson9219 4 месяца назад

    Coming in hott

  • @friedbaconatedchannel3531
    @friedbaconatedchannel3531 10 месяцев назад +1

    The question is - Do any other airlines actually do this?

    • @jaadotech
      @jaadotech 9 месяцев назад +3

      Let me flip that question around. "Only British Airways follow international aircraft maintenance standards, the others make shit up as they please" - what do you think is true?

    • @zazu9117
      @zazu9117 8 месяцев назад +2

      They did this for cameras. This is "positive" or affirmative documentary. How it should be done. Marketing, PR. No critical thinking, no unwanted questions.

    • @effkay3691
      @effkay3691 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@zazu9117Yes of course it’s all a conspiracy isn’t it?

    • @effkay3691
      @effkay3691 7 месяцев назад

      @@jaadotech😂

    • @Alex-fs4rj
      @Alex-fs4rj 7 месяцев назад +2

      no

  • @jamescapaldi6362
    @jamescapaldi6362 5 месяцев назад

    I HAVE TO REMIND YOU THE 747 IS NOT LARGEST PASSENDER PLANE, IS THE AIRBUS 380 IS LARGE HAS A LARGER PASSENGER SEATING CAPACITY, ON TWO DECKS, WHICH THE 747 HAS ONLY GOT A THIRD OF THE TOP DECK FOR CABIN ACCOMADTION, WHERE AS A 380 IS FULLY PASSENGERED, ON BOTH DECKS, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @keenahockey9682
    @keenahockey9682 8 месяцев назад +1

    Just remember....we all can't be clever....sadly

  • @HK_Musician
    @HK_Musician 5 месяцев назад +1

    I can't believe she's undoing all of those seats with nonelectric screwdriver

  • @Frazzled_Chameleon
    @Frazzled_Chameleon 3 месяца назад

    Wigglesworth is the most English surname that there ever was,

  • @jonathanlatouche7013
    @jonathanlatouche7013 10 месяцев назад

    19:11/12

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    90 tons of fuel first daily …down to 45-50 daily

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Platform

  • @ProfessorSnidecor
    @ProfessorSnidecor 17 дней назад

    😊

  • @NikitaDunn
    @NikitaDunn 9 месяцев назад +1

    I'd love to be an engineer!

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад +1

      Fantastic! What's stopping you? No shame in starting late, and even the people walking, are still lapping everyone on the bench. Mathematics favours neither sex nor age, and the same goes for physics. The world is your oyster, Ms. Dunn. You only get one life, so live life to the fullest! ;D

    • @NikitaDunn
      @NikitaDunn 7 месяцев назад

      ​@InservioLetum my son must have written this! He's 8 years old, never told me this ambition before either! Definitely something to be encouraged ❤ thank you for the advice, the world absolutely is his oyster and it makes me smile to know this is the content he's watching when he's not being watched ❤

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад

      @@NikitaDunn Aww that is so adorable. When I was eight years old... ugh, that hurt. I think the sky was still in black & white back then.

  • @dmor6696
    @dmor6696 10 месяцев назад +5

    I didn't watch the entire thing yet, just wanted to say that i want more women engineers because i believe they awesome at detail

    • @sharoncassell9358
      @sharoncassell9358 6 месяцев назад +1

      I fixed planes for the USAF 1979 to 1984. Iwanted to stay longer but my medical career interfered. C141 cargo craft were our priority. I loved it. I agree we need more female mechanics. They are discouraged. Now should be better. I hope they come.

  • @FaceFcuk
    @FaceFcuk 4 месяца назад

    Shame they cant keep up the MAX😂

  • @zazu9117
    @zazu9117 8 месяцев назад +1

    So this is why some Boeing workers said (recorded on hidden camera) they would never sit on their own plane.

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад +4

      Well that and the wind. Sitting inside is MUCH more comfortable, I promise you.

    • @jeffhaggarty9879
      @jeffhaggarty9879 4 месяца назад

      Yet incredibly safe, so I have no idea what you're going on about.

  • @abasvee
    @abasvee 7 месяцев назад

    2:14:23 Are helmets really needed? Ffs..

  • @michaeljones2282
    @michaeljones2282 6 месяцев назад

    Gas Pathway

  • @johnnycharisma162
    @johnnycharisma162 10 месяцев назад

    I wonder what these oil rig engineers think of the “Just Stop Oil” dick heads who burst onto Centre Court at Wimbledon today flinging jigsaw pieces onto the playing surface to disrupt the tournament.

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад

      Distuptive behaviour is the same wherever you go. Granted, it's not fun if you're a fan of watching primates cosplay live-action PONG! on grass, but sometimes the message merits whatever disruption is necessary to wake people up. The environment crisis is one such message.
      I do have to wonder... why on EARTH puzzle pieces????

  • @user-uh4rk4ik7f
    @user-uh4rk4ik7f 3 месяца назад

    America subcontractors in Central America performing maintenance... I'm learning about airlines, stuff you ought to know before you fly around 😮 seriously. NC is a right to work for less state, in retribution for labor successful bargain 😢

  • @sainnt
    @sainnt 4 месяца назад

    My last flight on a 717 was with Delta Airlines in first class. These birds would be missed when they're gone from passenger service because they signal the end of an era.

  • @1gbayfisher
    @1gbayfisher 4 месяца назад

    200,000,000 lbs???? Ya, i dont think so

  • @bryanbrewer4272
    @bryanbrewer4272 Год назад

    sooo creamy

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 5 месяцев назад

    The almost constant explaining just how much pressure the crew, are under is concerning.
    Surely they should be being told to take as long as it takes!

  • @InservioLetum
    @InservioLetum 11 месяцев назад +49

    I keep rewatching the bit with Becky Wadsworth. You never see a stewardess that actually looks the part anymore. Now it's all men right off a parade float, and old mothers-in-law. As we say in the Netherlands : het oog wil ook wat. It's not her function to be dreamy, but it does take your mind off the colostomy bag rupture that is airtravel nowadays.

    • @robertj.davidson362
      @robertj.davidson362 7 месяцев назад +10

      Your word selection is Brilliant to describe the Equal Opportunity and Exclusion/Critical Race Culture agenda.
      Our current Senate Majority Leader (the one who said, there are 6-Days plus Sunday that we can get You if you don’t follow the Agenda, not literally but his meaning).
      I flew in the Golden Era of Jet ✈️Travel, 1970 through the early 90’s and witnessed what you stated.
      I’m in Houston, Texas and recall Braniff Airlines tailor made designer outfits for an all Beautiful Female impeccable manners and positive personality Airline Stewardesses and Extremely Professional Male Stewart’s who stroked nothing but Positive Strength.
      Also the Hot Pants outfits of Southwest Airlines when they began flying! Ha Ha
      The, also run, staff with sloppy pants suits and non-sharp dressers began their destruction in the early 80’s.
      Flying lost its mystic !

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@robertj.davidson362
      I am not often surprised by people, but you have done so here, Mr. Davidson. When you cite critical race 'culture', are you referring to critical race theory? I cannot imagine how you'd have ever heard of that, even to the extent that you might be confusing it with something different. Critical race theory is university-level legal theory, and certainly not subject to agenda outside a law professors bookclub. I only know of it because I'm the only member of my family that did not go into law, and subsequently occasionally find myself in discussions on law at the dinner table when I visit my parents.
      How on _earth_ did you even hear of it? I'm honestly astonished!

    • @KyIieMinogue
      @KyIieMinogue 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@InservioLetumthe framework of critical race theory is common knowledge to many of those in the western world. Given the ignorance you displayed in your original comment it’s no wonder this fact comes as a surprise to you.

    • @bro7269
      @bro7269 6 месяцев назад +21

      Only on the internet can you watch a bit about aero “engineering” and by the 2nd comment have it turn into critical race theory. Unreal….

    • @randymann7251
      @randymann7251 6 месяцев назад +7

      In America they use critical race theory constantly. So much so that you roll your eyes every time it's brought up. It's a shame because things that actually do fall into that category are commonly overlooked because half the time just the concept is ridiculous so hearing it makes you cringe right off the bat.

  • @michaelnacevski
    @michaelnacevski 10 месяцев назад +1

    Why do airplanes get hit by lighting really? wtf lol

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад

      Because they are more conductive than the air they fly through, and move so quickly through air that they build up static electricity.

  • @TheOvenAcademy
    @TheOvenAcademy 5 месяцев назад

    The constant mention of “Victor X Ray” puts me off…. So pretentious… damn sohai

  • @user-hs5wb7uf9o
    @user-hs5wb7uf9o Месяц назад

    Why are these videos made with overpowering background music? Totally unnecessary.

  • @frankhandley7648
    @frankhandley7648 10 месяцев назад +7

    I can only image the twitches caused to US engineers by calling mechanics "engineers".

    • @johndamico2350
      @johndamico2350 9 месяцев назад +1

      😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @johndamico2350
      @johndamico2350 9 месяцев назад

      😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅p😅😅p😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅p😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @johndamico2350
      @johndamico2350 9 месяцев назад

      Ɔ😮

    • @johndamico2350
      @johndamico2350 9 месяцев назад

      😊

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад

      Engineers in murica have bigger problems than what the civilised first world is doing or calling people.

  • @joachimmikalsen1676
    @joachimmikalsen1676 10 месяцев назад

    "When engineering becomes massive"... There is no such thing as an engineering that is massive, except in the vocabularies of half schooled halfbakers.

    • @InservioLetum
      @InservioLetum 7 месяцев назад

      Well that certainly lends weight to the subject.