Repairing the Damage;
Does anyone else remember the Boeing repair scheme for the 707 when they started to turn into bananas?
The answer was to fit straps to the outside of the fuselage, usually at the back of the fuselage behind the wing trailing edge. The straps were about ten feet long.
Really bad ones had straps rivetted onto the front roof as well.
I have some photographs somewhere in the attic that I took of a TWA 707-131 that I got into in Denver (?) which had straps front and back. Being a short fuselage 707, it looked horrific but the bucks fizz in first class helped to divert my attention.
Last edited by JW411; 14th Jul 2013 at 05:58.