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Aviation industry during the Corona crisis

Started by Hardy Heinlin, Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:46

cagarini

Following the "premonitory" presentation by Bill Gates, in 2015 ( bellow link ) maybe a worth of 744s could be reconverted for Air Hospitals in response to future Pandemic crisis.

Instead of other investments, a fleet of 744s, under the command of WHO, could be of some good help in situations like the one we are now all facing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI

Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers

Technically a good idea. Same for cruise ships. It would be great if they could be designed to be convertible into hospital/isolation ships in a few days.

Financially... as always... no immediate gain for anybody, so it will meet stiff resistance. Hopefully the world learns this time that some investments have a loooooooooong ROI that is not going to be financially attractive, yet still it makes sense to make these investments.

Look at the struggle with the airborne fire extinghuishers. Private enterprise is too risky, and governments don't want to invest ahead of needing them. Well, maybe after last year's fires, they will.

Hoppie

ahaka

Problem is you also need highly skilled staff and high-end equipment for those converted hospital ships.
Antti

Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers

Correct. Yet, many countries have no problem at all investing large sums of money in highly trained staff and expensive equipment to throw bombs on others, and maintaining these capabilities when there is no immediate need to throw bombs on others. So it should be possible to use part of this capability to protect your own people instead.

I know, I'm a dreamer.


Hoppie

turbodiddley

It is a mess.

Golden nugget is the quiet, and the clean air.

Have to enjoy what you can!

Kurt

Phil Bunch

If one assumes that the Corona virus will continue disabling passenger air travel, both within a country and between countries, is it possible/practical to "store" all those unneeded airliners safely so that they can be easily and efficiently restored to active service? 

In other words, does an idle airliner develop lots of issues if it is just sitting around and not being used?  One option is to store them in the US desert "airplane graveyard" - presumably the dry air is less damaging than a typical climate with high and variable humidity.

If the Corona virus persists, and large numbers of pilots, mechanics, engineers, etc are idle for say 18 months, will they need to be recertified and relicensed?  This assumes that they would want to return to the aviation industry, of course.
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This worldwide scene feels like a bad science fiction/apocalypse movie.   It is beginning to feel very real in so many ways. In the USA, guns and ammunition are being bought up in some sort of semi-panic mode, perhaps as bad as the situation with (non-available) toilet paper.  It occurs to me that some sort of civil war, intensified by the USA's generally easy access to firearms, is a possibility...
Best wishes,

Phil Bunch

Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers

In those desert areas, there are plenty of companies that will take your aircraft and store it in one of various ways. They can keep it literally airworthy, ready to fly out in hours. Or they can store it further out for years, packed in and drained of fluids and revivable, but not easily. And everything in between. All for a price.

Most aviation people have a license that requires regular renewal to stay current. You don't really lose your license but you need re-training to be able to pick up flying after a few months without, and the same holds for many maintenance jobs. So it is possible to get back, but it gets more expensive over time, just as with airplanes. If you want to stay current, you need to keep training (sims, seminars, ...).

Civil War II?  Don't think about it. You sleep bad.


Hoppie