F-18 from scratch

cozmo · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:07 am

Here, Maintenance Hanger, Military Matters, I don't know where to put this...but I thought it was neat.

Video of building an F-18

GIJOE290 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:07 am

That is Cool....

Thanks!

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:20 am

Boeing has tons of those 'build a plane in 6 minutes' videos, I've got one on my laptop I show during class breaks where a 737-800 for VIRGIN AIR starts with the fuselage roaring in form Wichita on a flatcar and screams down the line @ Renton and out the door and into the air it runs 2:47 and has some really cool jazz violin music.

Funny thing is, they never seem to be moving that fast on the real production line unless I come at a bad time----- :wink:

BHawthorne · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:23 pm

The Inspector wrote:

starts with the fuselage roaring in form Wichita on a flatcar and screams down the line @ Renton

Isn't an assembly time lapse video starting a little late by the time it reaches that point? I've been on a 5 hour tour of Spirit Wichita through the 737 and 787 buildings, but they don't like cameras there.

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:45 pm

Any camera on a Boeing facility has to have a Boeing
approved' tag hanging from it so you can't bring your own SX 70 in because everything is 'proprietary'.

One of my collateral jobs during slow phases in AWACS QC years ago(how do you tell a 'slow phase' on a 98 day build cycle is beyond me)
Was doing recieved inspections on 737 fuselages from Wichita, several with many, many bullet holes. One looked so bad we called the Manager in Wichita and asked if they'd rolled the thing here instead of shipping by flatcar because it looked like a sack full of handlebars it was so rough, his reply was 'it's planting season, I don't have my regular folks just loan-ins'

Besides, watching the big chunks getting put on (wings, engines, gear) and functional tests is more fun than watching a tin tube being built.

muddyboots · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:48 pm

is a bullet hole a euphamism or do they build em in Iraq?

BHawthorne · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:10 pm

muddyboots wrote:

is a bullet hole a euphamism or do they build em in Iraq?

They sit those cars idle on side tracks waiting to be shipped. Doesn't surprise me any that dumb people take shots at them. Probably in the same level of IQ as people going around shooting road signs. Sounds like a bad quality control issue. How do they keep people out of them? I drive by them all the time. I'll take a picture of them the next time I remember.

A2C · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:43 pm

They make it look easy! The big riveting machine was really a sight.

Oscar Duck · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:08 pm

1st RAAF F/A-18F....

The Inspector · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:43 pm

Mudyboots...... mouth breather yayhoos play Sgt. York as the trains pass, doing the repairs keeps AOG busy @ Renton, and the bullet holes are real bullet holes not a euphamism.
For reference during 1968, the FAA recorded 8 or 9 ground fire strikes on commercial jets flying into or out of Saigon, and around 20 on commercial airliners flying in the U.S. that same year, currently around Sea-Tac we have nut cases who think it's fun to shine red or green lasers @ landing airliners, a couple of them have been caught and are awaiting their Federal cases to come up.
Thats why car hauler cars are so heavily screened with perforated steel sides so Otis and his 30.06 outside of Flaternheck, WY. can't see if the train car is hauling Chevy COBALTs or Cadillac STS'

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:04 am

And we think we're on top of the evolutionary scale...

A2C · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:22 am

Anyone fly over Northern California near Humboldt State Univ.? Marijuana growers take shots at airplanes.

Holedigger · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:49 am

What is it about Stop Signs?!

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