Aircraft Innards
Hey everybody...
I am an art director working on ABC TV's new series, "Lost," in Hawaii.
Our characters are the survivors from an L-1011 which hard-lands on a deserted tropical island, and to that end we bought a complete L-1011 in Palmdale and shipped it here to Hawaii, hacked it to pieces and set them up on the beach.
Part of our work in my department is to create "salvage technology;" the characters are going to be marooned for at least a season (we hope) and over the course of the show they will build all sorts of tools, shelter, and equipment using whatever bits and pieces they can salvage from the wrecked TriStar.
I would very much appreciate any suggestions, guidance or information that you very knowlegeable folks could give me regarding parts, supplies and equipment that might realistically be salvaged from a jetliner that has landed hard and broken into many pieces, but has not burned out (APU generators, wiring to use for lashing things together, pressurized-gas bottles, oxygen generators, that sort of thing).
Please bear in mind that we're just doing a TV show; doubtless we'll show a lot of stuff that "couldn't really happen," but it's all just for the entertainment of it.
Thanks in advance for all your helpful advice and information!
Best,
karl