nacelle man?

[sixto]

What's the guy doing behind the engine?



Sixto
87 300D

[Fulcrum525]

Maintenance of some sort. I know some older planes had tunnels in their wings that would allow crew access to the engines. However I think the scale on this photo is off though.

There should still be engine where he's standing and even with a tunnel there wouldn't be enough room for him to stand.

WVOtoGO will probably know.

[R Leo]

Originally Posted by Fulcrum525

Maintenance of some sort. I know some older planes had tunnels in their wings that would allow crew access to the engines. However I think the scale on this photo is off though.

There should still be engine where he's standing and even with a tunnel there wouldn't be enough room for him to stand.

WVOtoGO will probably know.

That looks like a Boeing 314 Clipper which had Wright Twin Cyclone engines...ie: two row radials that were about 55"-60" in diameter. I'm thinking that the figure shown in the nacelle would have been crouched behind the firewall. Can't imagine what you could do there besides permanently lose your hearing.

[tjts1]

Yup. Leave your hearing at the door into the wing.

[pj67coll]

Hes winding up the rubber band

- Peter.

[Kuan]

He's got his finger plugged in the oil leak.

[WVOtoGO]

I agree with the scale being off.

With a cruise time of nearly 20 hours, that dude crawled out there mainly to service the engine oil tanks. Those old radials drank quite a bit of it.

I can’t imagine how noisy that had to be. Nor how cold the crawl out the companionway must have been at nearly 20K in the winter months.

[MTI]

Originally Posted by pj67coll

Hes winding up the rubber band

- Peter.

Good one . . . I was going to suggest that he was tending to the hamster wheel.

[G-Benz]

Originally Posted by MTI

Good one . . . I was going to suggest that he was tending to the hamster wheel.

I was going to say "pedaling"...

[WVOtoGO]

Perhaps he's:
A mechanic on the wrong end of a bad prank by his fellow mechanics?
Good Humor man ?
Milk man?
Stowaway?
Saboteur?

Just think about what a little turbulence would do to that whole scene.

I also think that sweet talker dude in the mid pax compartment should go hang with the lone lady and her bong in the deluxe compartment.

[PaulC]

He's operating the throttle...

[MS Fowler]

You can't see it in the picture above, but the words " Wing Station" appear across the man in a nacelle.

[Ara T.]

Shoveling coal into the burners of course!