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AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

AvTalk Episode 2 – Jason Crawls Inside a Plane

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

Flightradar24

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Business News, News, Leisure, Aviation

4.8911 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 2, Jason crawls inside a plane, we talk in circles about circular runways, wonder about the best job in aviation, and quickly preview the upcoming Aircraft Interiors Expo. Jason Crawls Inside a Plane Jason takes us to Malta where he spent the day with Lufthansa Technik at their MRO facility getting up close […]

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Av Talk, the Flight Radar 24 podcast and our second episode.

0:10.2

I'm here with my co-host, Jason Rubowitz and I'm Ian Petchnick and we are so

0:15.7

thankful that you listen to our first episode and gave us some great feedback and

0:20.1

seem to be liking the show and we're so pleased.

0:24.0

And so you can get all of our episodes now on iTunes, Stitcher,

0:28.6

tune in, and Google Play.

0:30.2

So thank you so much for listening and we're going to jump right in.

0:34.0

Since we last recorded, Jason has visited four major German cities, Dublin and Malta,

0:41.6

what can charitably be described as a whirlwind tour of various aviation fields including crawling inside of a plane.

0:50.8

Jason I will let you fill us in on what you've been up to.

0:54.0

I'm tired, but I'm home until I go back to Germany and about a week and a half for the

0:59.8

aircraft interior show, but since we last recorded, which seems like forever ago already.

1:05.0

Yeah, I've kind of been all over the place.

1:06.8

Last week I was out with Lufthansa technique, actually.

1:10.4

All the way out in Malta, my first time time there really kind of a beautiful place but they brought us out there to their maintenance facility to see how they install satellite-based Wi-Fi on their short haul and medium- fleet which was really, really cool.

1:25.0

We got to do some other very fun stuff along the way.

1:28.7

If anyone was following Jason on Twitter, you can see that he not only saw the satellite Wi-Fi installations, but also

1:36.8

got to thoroughly tour the airplane lavatories, the equipment and electronics bay, which is pretty fascinating you know the the kind of the brains of the plane you know miles and miles of cable and and everything that that really keeps the plane up in the air.

1:53.0

Yeah, so out in the Malta facility, they had a couple of different aircraft.

1:58.5

They had Lufthansa A34600 and A330 and A321 that they were installing Wi-Fi in and the A330 actually had its entire interior removed so there was no seats on board the aircraft, not even on the flight deck.

2:13.6

There weren't even seats up there.

2:15.2

They were all inside a shop being cleaned, repaired, overhauled.

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