{"id":10551,"date":"2015-02-01T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T01:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:52:17","slug":"sunday-nerding-overhauling-a-boeing-747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2015\/02\/sunday-nerding-overhauling-a-boeing-747\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Nerding: Overhauling A Boeing 747"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever boarded an aircraft and thought &#8220;hey, this thing looks pretty old, is it still safe?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many planes in the global fleet have ages beyond 20 years &#8211; for example, the Qantas fleet of 747-400 aircraft which has just been retired, was in service for around 25 years.  Their remaining fleet of 747-400ER are about 10 years younger.<\/p>\n<p>So how does a plane that old manage to remain in airworthy service?  <\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_yHtfGH0nI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>All it takes is some tender loving care!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever boarded an aircraft and thought &#8220;hey, this thing looks pretty old, is it still safe?&#8221; Many planes in the global fleet have ages beyond 20 years &#8211; for example, the Qantas fleet of 747-400 aircraft which has just been retired, was in service for around 25 years. Their remaining fleet of 747-400ER are about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transport","tag-sundaynerding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}