some pics of a job i was on at brunters stripping a A321 for recycling for seen some nice cars too giving it some on the track as it was only next to us,
even a white 3dr cos and silver ecos turned up last Wednesday but the weather was AWFUL!












some old military stuff too

 

The white 3door, moonstone one and silver escos was us, had a day mapping, not good for 450 bhp rwd, was bloody freezing too!

 

though it would have been some one off here
yeh the weather that days was aweful we got to see all sorts of cars while we were there from a old caged conrtina to audi R8 and porsche and even what looked to be a prototype range rover touring car the list goes on lol its a busy place.

 

That looks cool. What happens to all of the parts you take off?

 

Melted down and reformed into Cossie parts

 

they get sold on again. most parts can be recon if needed like engine ect but once the airframe has reached its total amount of flying hours its scrapped.
Probably 20+ million pounds worth of bits off that aircraft. engines are 6 million each!

 

quite a young plane to be scrapped! only just 12 years old.

 

Cool. Do they have a certain time frame and they have to be striped?

 

What a cool job mate.

 

that took 3 weeks to get to that stage, but the undercarriage is still to come off that will take 2-4 days in the next week or so, but that was at that place out the way.

in a hanger with all the rules and regs that would have taken months

for example there you could remove parts in a day there that in a hanger would be quoted a weeks work lol

 

yeh i though that, some of the 747s are well old

 

Yeh its interesting too if you love your job its half the battle,
some of the guys i worked with have lived a life showing me pics on his ipad and telling me stories that you would never believe! plus working by contract you can end up anywhere from south Africa to south end lol

 

how did you figure that out

 

type the tail number into google and it tells you when that airframe entered service.

 

I got a souvenir you would like warren, google crash axe

 

can YOU sell any parts? i'd like a hostess trolley or storage units

if there anything thats pretty worthless but cool? windows or summmet

 

The reg plate. Written on the rear.

 

storage unit and trolleys sell so they keep them coz they get damaged often so theres a demand for replacement bits, the coolest bit i got is the crash axe but i bet the plod wouldnt take kindly to it.

depends on the job too sometimes a company will just buy a aircraft for certain bits engines undercarriage ect, the next job down at brunters is a 737 and apparently thats having noting taken from the cabin so they could be a chance but unless you there at the time they just get scrapped too.

 

they do quite a lot of this at Kemble airfield near me, always got loads of stuff up there, ripping bits off them LOL

 

Looks like its a good job.I bet its suprising how much stuff is in a plane.

 

if you happened apon some pm me and we can sort something out

 

I would like a hostess please if u find 1 on board a nice young fit 1 will be fine

 

Cool pics how many flights and hours has it done?

 

Great pics, interesting to see!

Sad sight seeing those VC10s getting broken up though

 

What a cool job, got any vacancies?! Lol

I take you need 'aircraft mechanic' quali's?

 

http://www.planespotters.net/Product...QZ-Spanair.php

 

Sounds cool, what is your job title? I need ideas for a job...

 

really cool job i'd love to do some thing like that. Good pics too any more of previous jobs?


Phil

 

As said before me, cool job...
The inside of a plane is very complex, you take that for granted when your sitting there watching the dvds flying from london to florida etc...

 

Wow I would love to do something like that, How did you get into that if you dont mind me asking?
Pics look awesome, always saddens me to see things like this being broken up
Its like that old British electric lightning (?) sat at the side of the A1 i think, been there for years rotting and getting covered in graffiti.
Its a shame really

 

cool job and doing it at brunters with cossies flying about, awesome