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jet2us
1st Mar 2016, 12:58
Doing a bit of research into QC aircraft, in particular the 737 variants. 300 more specifically.
Trying to find the answers to the following questions:
1. How many pallets are the seats attached to? I understand it to be 13 but I am looking for clarification on this.
2. Can all pallets sit in one storage vehicle? If not how many vehicles are required to accommodate all pallets? - apologies if not using the correct terminology for it.
3. Are the storage vehicles road legal?
4. Who manufactures the storage vehicles?
Would appreciate anyone who has gen/intel or photos regarding the above. Please PM as you wish.
Thanks Again
dixi188
3rd Mar 2016, 05:40
From your name, I would have thought Jet2 would have the answer.
Hi Jet2us,
I think it would be hard to squeeze 13 pallets into the 737-300. 13pallets was what we loaded onto the B707 freighter which was a much longer airplane. (The stretchedDC-8F was even longer and could carry something like 18pallets).
The 737 freighter can carry 8 P1P (88x125ins) pallets but for a QC you may loose one pallet due to galley and toilets so you may be left with only 7 positions.
HTH
Anil
4Screwaircrew
3rd Mar 2016, 09:44
From memory it was 13 seat pallets, they all used to go into one custom made vehicle which was capable of being road legal but I'm not sure that they were maintained that way as there was no requirement. I don't know who made the vehicles, the ones I saw in operation arrived with the aircraft from Germany.
Anvil, the seat pallets were much smaller than the pallets/ULDs used for mail and freight.
jet2us
3rd Mar 2016, 10:35
From your name, I would have thought Jet2 would have the answer.
dixi188 I'm not related, honest - lol but good spot!
Thanks guys for response so far, appreciate any info anyone has and greatful for your time to read and respond.
Sorry.. I was thinking about the pallets used for freight.. my bad.
On a side-note. Transmile (Malaysia) used to have seat pallets for the convertible 737-200. I remember visiting their aircraft probably in 1995 back in the old Kuala Lumpur airport (now a regional commuter hub-SZB) and I believed at the time they actually used freight pallets as a base.
One thing that struck me was the condition of the overhead lockers... they were in horrible condition due to fact that the warehouse guys not building pallets to the correct contour which resulted in the pallet scraping the bins as they moved aft.. Transmile has QC as well as pure freighters at the time and looks like the warehouse guys really did care which one was operating!
Anil