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The second night working on SAM971 we were in THE ZONE! Her finish was starting to come around. Even though we had already worked a good 8+ hour day, we decided to stay late and keep shining away.
Little did we realize that there would be no lights around us. As the sun dimmed the lights under the roof seemed to grow brighter, the high-intensity lights highlighted the brilliant finish that she now proudly displayed.
It was sureal and made for amazing photos!
We took advantage of this opportunity to take a team photo. Look as her smile!!
I love and greatly respect all these guys. Remember, this is an all volunteer gig.
From bottom right to left... Jason, Ryan, Felix, David, Robert, John, Luke, A.J., Chris, Paul...upper level are Andrew and myself. (Hey....What is that resting on my shoulder... more about that later.) Not in the pic, Cougar and Chris J.
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nice man!! you should have called me up I would have come and hung out with you guys. I still have my line bandage and secret clearance to go near all that stuff. did you guys get the yellow stands from the corrosion shop there or did you bring those in? I see you used a lot of the AGE stands as well.
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Excellent work, sir!
So great to hear from you!
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Originally Posted by
Calendyr
I am always amazed at the amount of work a project like this takes. Congrats!
There is one thing that bothers me every time I see a post about polishing large aircrafts like this: Everytime, D156 is used as a LSP... why? This stuff doesn't last. It will give maybe a month of protection.... why spend 100s of man hours on a plane an protect it with a product that has no durability? Should you not be using a long lasting sealant or some kind of ceramic protection instead?
Probably from a cost perspective I'd guess. I'm not sure how much it would cost in product to ceramic coat a plane of this size. $10 grand? More? If he used polish angel it would be like half a mill lol.
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Originally Posted by
Mike Phillips
Nice work, nice write up with great pictures Joe!
Ugh... I'm tired just looking at all the work that goes into projects this large...
You da man!
Look at it this way...............the next fleet will be 747's. These will look like piper cubs.
Dave
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Originally Posted by
boomdone
Probably from a cost perspective I'd guess. I'm not sure how much it would cost in product to ceramic coat a plane of this size. $10 grand? More? If he used polish angel it would be like half a mill lol.
also the planes don't normally get any extra protection beyond the clear coat itself so any added protection is a bonus, well they don't even get washed much
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Wow what a generous thing you guys have done! Awesome work everyone! And those pictures in the dark that highlights the plane is unbelieveble beutieful!
Thanks for shareing your work!
Regards
Tony
Sweden
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Kudos to you and your crew. Did your crew get instructions on where and where you cannot walk?
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So I don't know if it's this same jet but the chrome belly is what caused alot of these to spot flying. They were buffed so many times that it thinned the metal and weakened the fuselage
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