How NASA’s X-59 recycled decades-old plane parts to make silent supersonic flight possible
The new supersonic plane breaks the mold with a radical new shape and digital cockpit, but it relies on ancient parts to make ...
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Clocks Built From Old Aircraft Surplus Parts
A few years ago, Tube Clock forum member[Sine1040] bought a set of four brand new aircraft indicator units ... scrounged enough parts to build three clocks. After gutting the clocks and ...
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Vintage Aircraft Controls Turned USB Button Box
As we’ve seen with other pieces of vintage aircraft instrumentation ... in finding out where all all these old school airplane parts are coming from… ...
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How the world's largest airplane boneyard stores 3,100 aircraft
It was an aircraft that never went into production. Narrator: Eight hundred mechanics work nonstop, reclaiming critical old parts and regenerating aircraft so they can go back into service.
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FRCSW Bids Farewell to Its Last Legacy Aircraft
By: Janina Lamoglia, Oct. NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. — Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) has been a pillar ...
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How the Air Force's metals techs keep aircraft flying
"We also fabricate tools for other shops; there are parts on our aircraft that they no longer make tools for, so we make the new part and the tool to remove the old one." When it comes to welding ...