Take a stroll around the shops of Vnukovo aircraft repair plant – the center of technical service and repair of civil aircrafts of domestic and foreign manufacture.
Planes are driven into a hangar with help of special trailer truck.
It is possible to maintain up to 8 planes at a time.
This plane undergoes C-check – a "hard form" of regular technical service. The whole compartment is taken out of the plane.
Boeings 737 undergo such check every 4000 flight hours.
A plane is taken apart up to the fuselage, and is going to be reassembled after the corrosion is removed.
Cleaning workteam.
Fuselage is the body of a plane. It contains the cockpit, fuel tanks, control systems, passenger seats and so on.
A wing and a fuselage fragment get prepared for painting.
The process is carried out in a separate shop, polyurethane enamels are used.
Mobile scaffolds for access to any part of a plane.
Newly-painted side of "Russia".
Tight areas are finished with brushes.
Russian medium-range airliner Tu-204.
The workers toil at main damper gear.
Fresh repaired little one.
Nose part of the legendary Boeing-737.
Boeing-737 is the most popular narrow-body jet in the world. It is the most mass-producted passenger jet for the whole passenger aircraft building history.
Jet engine nacelle is of a very unusual form.
Every 5 seconds a Boeing-737 takes off somewhere in the world.
Blades integrity check.
Our luggage travel inside such a small room.
Passenger compartment.
Time to top off the tanks with nitrogen.
Sealed Boeing-737 crew cabin.
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