Kevin's supersized Salvage - C4 9pm
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So they're not really recycling a whole plane, just the £25k of scrap that's left after matey in Teesside has taken every remotely resellable bit out.
Also something weird going on because at the very start it was clearly Air France liveried, then it was shown with the Air France livery hastily papered over, and now it's been repainted Sycamore Aviation (think that was the name of the company in Teesside that took the engines off etc). If they were just stripping it for parts why bother doing a professional repaint on it.
I've always thought the UK needs more converted-old-plane guest houses and roadside cafes. I've seen a few in US / Australia / NZ but never come across one here for some reason. Kids would love them. Or make a cinema out of one.
Also something weird going on because at the very start it was clearly Air France liveried, then it was shown with the Air France livery hastily papered over, and now it's been repainted Sycamore Aviation (think that was the name of the company in Teesside that took the engines off etc). If they were just stripping it for parts why bother doing a professional repaint on it.
I've always thought the UK needs more converted-old-plane guest houses and roadside cafes. I've seen a few in US / Australia / NZ but never come across one here for some reason. Kids would love them. Or make a cinema out of one.
Edited by kev1974 on Thursday 24th April 21:19
All seems a bit half arsed so far.
Why they're dismantling the seats which could be sold on easily and profitably as err.......seats is beyond me.
Picking the gold terminals out of the relays? Thousands of Chinese kids have been doing that sort of thing for decades.
And the rest seems to be crap like bird boxes, rabbit runs and desk lamps.
ETA: cuff links.......wow.
Why they're dismantling the seats which could be sold on easily and profitably as err.......seats is beyond me.
Picking the gold terminals out of the relays? Thousands of Chinese kids have been doing that sort of thing for decades.
And the rest seems to be crap like bird boxes, rabbit runs and desk lamps.
ETA: cuff links.......wow.
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 24th April 21:44
Laurel Green said:
I'd have thought the best way to turn a profit would be to take it down to the local car wash, £10 inside and out and, flog it to Easy Jet.
Neither Easyjet nor Ryanair would be interested. Their fleet strategy revolves around placing large orders for new aircraft at a discount, operating them for a few years and then flogging them off. Both have an average fleet age of 5.5 years.It's dull. All the good bits of the plane went to the first company right at the start so the rest of the show may as well have been "making rubbish furniture out of old Ocado lorry bodies and customer crates" or something, it's similar trash that they're working with, the end results would have been indistinguishable.
Sorry Kev you've let me down on this one.
Sorry Kev you've let me down on this one.
Crossflow Kid said:
Luggage made from old seat fabric and seat belts has potential. The airlines could be all over that as branded souvenir items.
The rest just strikes me as O-level design project stuff.
I dunno if people want seat fabric that's been sat on a lot. TfL's museum store commission a lot of products made out of cloth to their various bus/tube seat designs/patterns but it's all newly run off fabric, not recovered stuff.The rest just strikes me as O-level design project stuff.
Airline seat belt/buckles make good bag straps though, I've seen them in shops before.
kev1974 said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Luggage made from old seat fabric and seat belts has potential. The airlines could be all over that as branded souvenir items.
The rest just strikes me as O-level design project stuff.
I dunno if people want seat fabric that's been sat on a lot.The rest just strikes me as O-level design project stuff.
What the bloody hell is a 3-D printed silhouette of an A320 made from ground up A320 plastic all about?
Pointless.
The garden office has missed the point somewhat too. The interior is cheap old plywood where it could've been more of the original. Same goes for the door. Crappy greenhouse door where the cockpit door could've gone. Not very ingenious.
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