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What an absolute garbage video. You could condense down its content into about 5 sentences. I'm annoyed I watched that. It was worse than any podcast I've list
by muppetman 3y ago
What an absolute garbage video. You could condense down its content into about 5 sentences. I'm annoyed I watched that. It was worse than any podcast I've listed to (and most of them are garbage)
- gregoriol 3y agoCould you condense it down into 5 sentences for us?
- londons_explore 3y agoLots of people want to convert passenger planes to cargo planes. There is a 3 year backlog to do it at plants all over the world, done by Boeing and 3rd parties. The bulk of the process involves removing the seats (which will be resold), reinforcing the floor, and cutting a new large cargo door. There, done. 3 sentences. I don't think there was any other interesting content in the video. Somehow the video mentioned removing the seats over and over again.
- nikau 3y agoYou didn't mention to smash like and subscribe
- amelius 3y agoThanks! I still wonder why that costs up to $30M though ...
- londons_explore 3y agoVideo didn't explain. But I suspect there are a lot of conversion steps it didn't mention. And anything todo with jet aircraft is expensive anyway.
- flybrand 3y agoAirframe certification? Regulatory over sight? Lack of competitors? Alternate use of their assets / personnel?
- londons_explore 3y agoThey add a new large door. Aircraft doors are very expensive because they are pressure doors. When you cut a hole for a door, you need to replace the lost strength in the body of the plane with lots of new beams and stuff I'd assume.
- icoder 3y agoThey don't explain anything beyond mentioning the large door. Your comment is already 10x more insightful than that video.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoAre cargo bays of cargo aircraft pressurized?
- detaro 3y agoGenerally yes. It's useful and they are usually derivatives of passenger models that obviously have it. A few models that were specifically designed to be cargo aircraft for use cases that don't need it are not and thus e.g. need barriers to the crew compartment that can keep that pressurized, have only limited ability to temperature-control the cargo space or would need extra heaters for this (pressurized aircraft get it almost for free since they use heated compressed air from the engines), are limited in what cargo is suitable, ... A well-known example is the Airbus Beluga: large chunks of metal don't care about pressurization.
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- placesalt 3y agoI think there was <=60s in the middle of the video that actually talked about the process. The rest was a ~3x repetition of a summary of The Market.