Originally Posted by
First_Principal
Not wanting to get too far away from the original image you posted (great hotel to have that on the wall btw!) I thought that some may appreciate this photo, given the interest in the wing bolts. I have been intimate with every one of these, and have to say that I don't recollect there being 382 of them .. funny how the mind plays tricks but it seems I had (miss) remembered the number as 365, one for each day of the year but, having just checked out
here, it appears to be 328. While unverified I do have the service bulletins etc stacked away somewhere and could check, but that seems like rather too much work - although not as much as inserting and tightening every one of these, even after all these years I still well remember the arm ache from working overhead on that particular job!
Great photo.
It's not often you get to see (most of!) an aerofoil section shown so clearly.