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The_Goat Member
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Uranium from a 747?
Did Boeing ever use depleted Uranium on any of its airplanes?
I think the guy got the Uranium from somewhere else and is just making up a tale _________________ I don't know which is the more pampered bunch : AI's widebodies (the aunties) or Jet's widebodies (the planes).
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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The_Goat wrote: | Uranium from a 747?
Did Boeing ever use depleted Uranium on any of its airplanes?
I think the guy got the Uranium from somewhere else and is just making up a tale |
Depleted Uranium is used in Counter-weights for control surfaces in 747s
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/593649.stm |
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:29 am Post subject: |
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So now the airplane in question is an Air India Airbus !
It was used as a counterweight in an old Air India plane which was sold off and dismantled for scrap in 2006. The man whose company broke up the plane, an Airbus, tried to illegally sell the substance ............
The Airbus in question was bought by Air India from France in 1970. In 2006, government officials decided to sell the aircraft after a series of meetings with Metal Scrap Trading Corporation, which comes under the steel ministry.
An online auction was held and a businesswoman from Haryana, Renu Punshi, bought it for Rs 57 lakh. She apparently wanted to start a theme restaurant inside the aircraft, but later learned that rules do not permit her to keep the outof- service plane intact and run a business aboard. She tried to sell the plane back to Air India, but to no avail.
http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/civic/six-month-mystery-over-radioactive-metal-solved/articleshow/59344043.cms _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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The_Goat Member
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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Was Airbus even selling planes in 1970?
Mumbai Mirror making stories again! _________________ I don't know which is the more pampered bunch : AI's widebodies (the aunties) or Jet's widebodies (the planes).
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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The_Goat wrote: | Was Airbus even selling planes in 1970?
Mumbai Mirror making stories again! |
The first Airbus to come to India was the A300 prototype F-OCAZ, which was presented to Air India and Indian Airlines at Santa Cruz in October 1973. _________________ 11000 posts (and counting) on Airliners-India.
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