How much should you charge to clean up two Voyager aircraft?

Op 03/07/2025 om 07:55 schreef Nick Odell:

I don't know. Let me phone Bob Vylan and we'll take it from there.

The engines will have to be stripped down completely, I wonder how much replacements cost?

The jet engine is full of paint!

Jet engines for that aircraft are 20 million plus

More likely the whole aircraft would have to be inspected, the engines removed and stripped down and many other tests performed, not on account of what you know they did, but on account of what you don't know they didn't do.

I thought jet engines ran hot. Won't the paint burn off when they are started?

Next time you take a holiday flight we will let you check out that theory :)

I seem to remember on those air crash programs where a crash was partly attributed to a small sensor that had been painted over and the cause of another crash partly attributed to the masking tape covering a sensor being left after the aircraft was re-painted. It can the small things that catch you out.

Not the fan blades at the front, which stay cool and got most of the paint.

They do, with gasses above the melting temperature of the fan blades

Do you want to risk running the engine with paint possibly blocking the cooling vents within the blades? Maybe they only get "a little bit too hot" and start a crack forming that catastrophically fails at a later date?

Indeed, Pitot tubes are external, vital and easily f***ed with. Like the ones that *may* have had an insect nest built inside because it wasn't covered during a lengthy stay at a tropical airport.

At any event, the fans will be well out of balance

My Suzuki Vitara has just been recalled because spiders might nest in a vent pipe. Apparently if not fixed it can cause a vacuum which might crack the fuel tank.

It may have been an acid etch primer type of paint.

Possibly not - depends on the level of damage to the engines... and more importantly the cost of stripping and rebuilding them to find out.

-- Cheers,

John.

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