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Structural Rebuild - Page 1


The main central fuselage section, which will be the base for the rebuild
The forward section of the centre fuselage, notice where the cleaning has ended....for the time being at least, until the wings are back on

The rear section of the centre fuselage. Some of the wing to fuselage panels on the upper and lower sides of the wings have been re-fitted and can be seen clearly in this picture

The is the forward fuselage section, which was removed for transportation to Brooklands. A lot of restoration work has already been carried out here; including fitting new windows and overhauling the doors
The tail section, with the recently refitted cargo hold door
The tail cone will be one of the last items to be put back on. It was only unbolted and should only take a day to refit.
This is Concorde G-BBDG's left wing, this will be structurally re-attached to the centre fuselage section using high tensile bolts and aluminium channel. In the summer of 2004, the access panels were all re-fitted to prevent water ingress.
The forward wings were simply held to the fuselage by way of links and bolts. These will be re-hung on after the main fuselage and wing repairs are complete
One of the outer wings, these are held in place by multiple high strength bolts. Recently the access panels have been refitted; the green and red one are replacement ones for where the original ones were missing.(these still need to be cleaned!)
One of the final tasks will be to re-fit the landing gear, which has already been prepared for fitting

Continue to Page 2 for Wing re-joining pictures...

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