What Happens To Old Airplanes?
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2021
- Did you know the disposal of old planes is a thriving multibillion dollar business? Or that it’s recently spawned a dangerous shadow market in counterfeit aircraft parts?
Hop on board and buckle up for takeoff as we ask exactly what happens to old airplanes?
You might wonder why airplanes need to die in the first place. After all, they’re made of metal, right - can’t they just be maintained, theoretically forever?
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Malaysian airliner in the ocean hmm..
thought the same xD
Me to MALAYSIA AIRLINE COME!!!!
yea what
Will you go to ocea he's gone by
Ahhhhhh
Very unfortunate that the lives lost in this Malaysian
plane were not treated in par with the lives lost in Titanic Ship! Well, nothing can be done as not even a single minute trace of this aircraft was found even after a 3-year search! Otherwise, they would hv made a much bigger charbuster movie on this too!
@@prabhakarkmv4135 titanic is not a plane it's a steamer ship sunk 110 years ago
@@prabhakarkmv4135 several pieces with the correct serial numbers have washed up or been fished out. So you comment is wrong.
I quite like the idea of living in a plane - say, the front half of a 747, though I am sure the local housing and land development regulators might have a differing opinion on that.
Ikr
Planes are massive so they could be quite nice after you refurbish it
Wow.....thank you tech vision for making wonderful videos
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Excellent and informative video. These aircrafts are being used wisely.
Yeah! Some are modifying/converting these planes into cosy homes also! 😃
I don’t care about the money, just put them in museums
those economy seats could be used on motorcoach Buses.
I guess I'm just unnecessarily emotional
Use them as cafe, fast food shops, as free public housing... Send one to each high school as a model display.
Why can`t the metal can be used for making cars and instead of dismantling old planes they may be taken to islands and used as small malls, supermarkets and restaurants. truly it would be sound proof and AC ready. thanks.
When I did a stopover at Moscow some years ago there were old aeroflot planes lined up along the fence line with parts missing !
$43,000 for a 747. Would make for a amazing home once renovated.
Plus 500.000$ for the logistics.
you still have to spend $$$ for the plumbing, electric, etc
Screw that, I would buy it, restore it and turn it into my own private Plane! Even scrounging for engines and refurbishing, would still be cheaper than a small private plane!
Thanks for the upload! ✈️
I’ve never really thought about where they went... but it’s pretty neat
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I am driving past that Swedish 747 hotell every time I go to work :D
If I own a country I was trying to order those old planes because I'm going to try and do something with it
.. lol, you just explained why you dont own a country :)
@@79Gravity do you want to know what I'm going to use those planes for?
Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this
I'm going to use those planes to make 1000 V2 rockets!
You could buy a bunch of those fighter jets for ur Air Force
The metals may be recycled to build new planes. Some valuable instruments and circuit boards may be reconditioned with certificates and used as spares for planes which are in service.
Thank you
Nice video.
I used to wonder what they do with it.. I thought it's sold as scrap!
Many parts are, if they don't think the parts are safe enough for use in new planes, they're scrapped and after a crash the entire plane is scrapped
Convert them all into isolation or quarantine abodes
I need that desk for my office!
Min 4:17 Mc Donnell Douglas DC-9-30
Can be converted them as a Library, Small Hospital, Clinic, small shop, food corner, small pub or music cafe, Pre School, small movie Theater, children playground, swimming pool, aquarium, flower/vegetable/Fruit garden, laundry center, corporate office, hotel/motel, museum etc
Seems a little disrespectful considering the engineering feet that the aircraft was originally designed for! Like turning a Decommissioned Military ship into a Group Home for Mentally Challenged People!
Recycling parts is the innovative way and Earth saving for future generations.
There is also one graveyard in Teurel, Spain. Some big jets there
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Teruel, not Teurel.
كل شي له نهاية حتى بني ادم. و لا يبقى الا وجه ربي ذو الجلال و الاكرام
Soo many plane puns !!!
Boeing and Airbus fuselages are designed to flex during pressurization, which causes the lifespan issue. McDonnel Douglas DC-9 and DC-10 series were designed to NOT flex during pressurization, so pressurization cycles do not apply. I worked on a DC-10 that had over 190,000 hours when it was retired.
Interesting sir, would you like to elaborate?
Elaborate, because as far as I know every airplane is pressurized at altitude.
WE REALLY NEED TO INFORM YOUR SHRINK TO INCREASE YOUR DELUSIONAL MEDS. EVERY COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT IN THE WORLD FLEXS DURING PRESSURIZATION THERE IS NOW WAY AROUND IT. YOUR MOTHER SAID THE ONLY AIRCRAFT YOU EVER WORKED ON WAS A PAPER AIRPLANE IN THE SANITARIUM WERE YOU GREW UP IN . 😂😂😂😂
Got news for you. All fuselages will flex to some extent depending on the actual design. It is all a matter of degree and where the design stress is located on the S-N curve (stress level versus number of cycles the metal is exposed to). Back to Engineering 101. There sre no absolutes.
اللهم بارك لي في ما بقى من عمري و اصلح لي شؤوني كلها و اشفيني بحولك و قوتك لا شفاء الا شفاءك يا الله انت الشافي المعافي .
0:50 Metal fatigue might happen with the wings and where the wings are attached. And the landing gear. This is where one could start making these parts easily replaceable.
In Tucson, Arizona there is a fuselage that houses a lap pool
I've been to the old Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs before.
Even thinking of living inside a Aircraft converted into a bed room is making me claustrophobic. But yes, it could be apt for a restaurant.
Planes aren't that small, are they smaller than they look when you are inside it?
At the regional airport in Tupelo, MS (TUP) many aircraft are recycled, including 747s !
Cool content
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start collecting parts for the space city :)
Very interesting and informative 👍😀
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Which begs the question. Are the 787 and soon to be produced 797 a disruptor in this market? They are essentially immortal planes as they have no metal to fatigue. All u need to do is re-engine them and refit them with new interiors and voila a “brand new airplane “.
thats just wrong :) you need the "intire"insides of a plane also, just not the metal.. plane is way more than just metal.. just imagine how well wires run on bare metal.. so :) making a new one is cheaper.. right? immortal is a bad word to even use.. its one of those famous last ones, im "immortal" in my "brand new airplane".. sure you are :D some questions dont need to even be asked.. even if you beg
Museum of Flight in Seattle really an historic end for yesterdays airborne culture.
Could use the left over body as giant tanks weld everything closed clean or out or scrap it and melt it and mold giant tanks
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Probably not, as the volume could result in extremely heavy loads that the bare shell would not have the strength to hold without major problems.
How about C-47 in service with South African Air Force?
I know a guy who works for the Gold Reserve Corporation, a mining company. He told me that if you want to know where old cars go, they are all being used as taxicabs in Caracas, Venezuala.
Now this what I’m talkin bout
Question: Why do Airplane Graveyards cover up Cockpits and Windows of planes during storage?
It’s sad how many military planes are being trashed, but you only need so many, and you need to take care of them well.
ye they should sell them to private people :) that would make it more interesting
It's not true manufacturor doesnt want to repair turbine blades. The repair cost is 30-50% of new component. I should know, cos I work in a turbine business.
I think you should know the difference in the usage of turbine blades and an aircraft engine blades.
The newest B-52H is 60 years old. Some will be over a 100 years old when they are finally retired. So I guess it is possible to keep a plane flying indefinitely if your throw enough refurbishment at it.
they also dont have nearly the same number of flights as regular passenger planes
Anything is possible if You put money in preventative maintenance and regular maintenance! The Aircraft industry is now into planned obsolescence more than ever! So Sad!
All aluminum aircraft have a known maximum number of takeoff and landing cycles, based on the engineers’ calculations of metal fatigue. I think that for a 747 it’s something like 50,000.
The highest time airplane of all time is a DC3 with something like 90,000+ flying hours. It’s around 85 years old.
So an aircraft can’t be used beyond the original design limits.
Military aircraft actually get very little use. Some types can be retired with as little as 5000-10,000 hours, and it may take them decades to accumulate that much time.
amazing video everyone must just know knowvits retirement and post retirement use wisely. it is really my wish to buy a small flight for conversion as a house but I can only dream. I am poor. can't even travel in a flight. thank you very much for the video. please upload similar such thought provoking videos.
dream big mate, try and save up for some local flights..they cost around 50-100 dollars, one day, that will be pocket change for u ;)
Omg cool
i like the idea of kindergarden in decommissioned regional jets
I have 2 first class aircraft seats in my camper van - WITH TRAY TABLES and DVD. ALL ABOARD.
Turn them into public housing
Hi there you can use plans as car parts
I would think that the engines which be the most lucrative spare parts which can be be rebuilt multiple times & maybe the landing gear.
v good video
In Mykolayiv(the city in the South of Ukraine) also was a plane which was reconstructed after its flying service. It's was the cinema inside fuselage. The model- Il(ilushin)62. When I was a child I liked to watch cartoons in the plane-cinema
Make the 747 as a rc planes for rraning pilot leesly
I'm surprised they aren't selling the old fighter planes to museums all around the world. Strip out the guts but leave only the visible parts so that they're not functional but people can still have a look at them.
Museums do receive certain aircraft once they're retired.
From Australia: possibly the same thing that happens to AEROPLANES outside the USA! LOL
I wish i could visit Arizona, and walk around all the planes..Better trip then 2 weeks on the beach..lol..
I have to believe that using shipping containers or some other prefab structures is way more economical than using an old airplane.
Nice video very informative useful 👍
I live next to Mojave and yes has a lot of airplanes.
Спасибо за интересный рассказ
I think a lot of airplane enthusiasts would love the cockpit to be sold.
Passenger aircraft are too expensive that they can simply be scrapped like an old washing machine. Of course there is a big question about what could be done with the planes.
@6:45 I guess they found MH370?
So this is how planeyards looks like🙄it's awesome
some scrap jet cockpit may turn simulator for aircraft trainee
Old planes die hard
So basically it’s a crap shoot your plane’s fuselage might burst or a counterfeit part might fail.
Have you any idea how much is it in indian currency in india? I want to know. For 1pc
They go to old airplane homes.
The word is AEROPLANE, not "airplane".
My information is from THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, published by Oxford University Press. Currently running at 20 large volumes, it is the most comprehensive, universally respected and authoritative English Dictionary in the world.
Yes Sir, I have an excellent idea for retired aircraft, my dream to transitioning from a 37 year career veteran commercial truck owner operator to an international cargo jet owner operator!
A bit of structural reinforcement, retro-upgraded engines and a modern suite of updated flight systems and wallah, you have an entirely new industry of repurposed defunkt commercial jetliners.
Non body understanding, too much production, has destroyed our Globo. Where are you going to through way millions of planes? Greed is the most problem in our lives. From Brazil
If all the airplanes were on the ground there would be no room to store them all.
In Nepal the plane age is infinite planes never get old and aviation keeps running and running until planes get into the deadliest crash
But then the air force still uses the same old cold war bombers ?
not really, they are upgraded to modern standards
Dumped in sea = innovative transformation into an artificial reef
all that metal that could be melted down and reused in manufacturing
It is eventually. Practically nothing of those aircraft goes to waste.
Rest In Peaces airplanes.
Convert these planes in Hospital 🏥 for homeless ppl out there in Covid19..... hope this idea will work out....
Pray for the world 🌎 to recover from this pandemic!!
Old airplanes get older....
Same with old wind turbines. Can't be recycled. Off to landfill.
Make the old aircrafts homes for the poor and let them live in it
Airplane heaven
Is there a possibility that it is all these lifespan exhausted planes that are being refurbished and sold to low income earning countries?
1:57 “and run into the ground, metaphorically” you sure about that? Don’t you mean physically? 😂
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Convert them into HOMES..... They could be beautiful homes once converted.
metal fatigue in the frame titanium structural members will be removed by a slow annealing process in the hot arid climate in Arizona ... Dislocations in the metal will realign and remove stress produced by fatigue. So simply Park the planes for a year in Arizona meanwhile refurbish and put back in service.
They aren't as fuel efficient as new planes. Also, airlines are getting away from 4-engine aircraft as they're more expensive to operate.
I would assume its the same as my old phone chargers.
The speaker is rushing way too fast through this topic.
Why those aircrafts are not sent to be recycled similar to recycling cars.
To get maximum benefits of re-using plenty of scrap metals a Aluminium. Iron..copper..etc .and to get ride of occupying those large spaces and yards needed to park them.
They are dude. Once all the useful components are removed they are chopped up and sold as scrap.
I wonder how much a phalange costs?
Exactly to recycle ♻️
Cargo planes aren't pressurized, does this mean they have indefinite lifespan?
i would like to buy one.
It will be better is we will use in military camp on desert and ice hill area. New hotels etc.
My great-uncle jegs used to work destroying WWII aircraft in the course this was back in the fifties and sixties when they brought back all the surplus airplanes that were used for war that were no longer needed and they were propeller-driven on the world was jets away actually even earlier than the 50s he said that he used to just rip them apart and he would see all the cool down aircraft badges that these planes would wear all the cool nicknames on the flying fortresses b-17s b-39s a26b Invaders mustangs corsair's he said he ripped everything apart I looked up what he was talking about and there are pictures if you look up what happened to the WWII aircraft most of them were brought here to AZ and scraped
Why is the B-52 Bomber designed to last 100 years since it was designed?!