747 Demolition

Feel free to move this, with my meds I`m not even sure what day of the week I`m on.  However, tomorrow (Saturday?) around noon at 12:05 to 1:10pm theirs a documentary on Channel 5 that could be promising.  I`m recording it just in case.

Based on a 747 thats been retired.  Engineers strip it down to discover any parts worth salvage.  Looking at the undercarriage, controls, body of the plane etc.....  Depending on how its filmed and what we get to see in detail it has distinct possibilities.  C5 comes out with some good stuff at times and especially lately, its one to keep an eye on.  Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere.

EDIT:  Though a TV Program it might be better in the Videos Section

Steve

Is that a repeat?  I'm sure I've seen that before.

The programme was shown on C5 a couple of years ago, Its interesting but still horrible to see a lovely aircraft chopped up like this, I know it has to be done but it just seems wrong. Its good that the useful parts will fly again though.
I guess i,m a bit of a sentimentalist, Many years ago I watched a perfectly good supertanker go to the bottom after her crew sold the cargo to a sanctioned country and then scuppered her to try and hide the evidence. We were first ship on the scene when we picked her (fake) mayday call. We took the crew off and watched the ship die. as she went down it was like a magnificent dying animal, the air inside her screamed as though she was in pain as it was forced out of the various openings by the incoming water. Steam spewed out of her funnel like the last gasps of life, and various crashes within rumbled as machinery and fittings broke loose. It was an awesome, moving and horrible sight as she slid beneath the waves, and something I will never forget. Thankfully the fraud was quickly discovered and the crew imprisoned, At least their ship had her revenge.