PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Ethiopean 787 fire at Heathrow
View Single Post
Old 10th Oct 2013, 21:05
  #891 (permalink)  
YRP
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 163
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
There is a lot of talk about this being new territory, repairing FRP on this scale with this sort of damage (heat vs mechanical).

I am curious: would this be a straightforward repair of a metal structure? It seems like there was a significant enough fire that even metal would be "challenged", eg perhaps enough to melt or soften metal. From what I recall of photos from some time back, the damage was a good fraction of the way around the curve of the hull, i.e. not just one spot or two but affecting several longitudinal structural members.

I'm out of my depth with structures, but wouldn't this be an unusual type of repair for any construction?
YRP is offline