04/2011 | Almost 500 years’ combined engineering expertise
Engineering legends such as Peter Bockhold, Harald Claasen, Peter Eppendorfer, Horst Fleischer, Günther Georgs, Franz-Heinrich Ilse, Paul-Gert Langner, Hans-Jürgen Rohwer, Helmut Schulz and Peter Struck are eminent authorities in their individual areas of expertise and in some cases have been involved with Lufthansa Technik’s Super Star project since its inception.
But the Hamburg-based L-1649 team would not be complete without the practicing engineers who still work for Lufthansa Technik and without exception are all qualified in accordance with the latest licensing requirements of the authorities. Markus Drexler, Michael Hopp, Dr. Stefan Schulte, Ludolf Ungerer and Philipp Reipschlaeger, head of the project office, are among the best in their profession. If you add their professional experience at Lufthansa Technik to that of the senior experts, the entire team boasts an impressive wealth of experience of around 500 years in the Lufthansa Group!
With the various individual qualifications, the Hamburg L-1649A team covers every discipline in the field of aircraft maintenance. Although 53 years have passed since the Lockheed L-1649A entered into service with the Lufthansa Group and it was in 1966 that the last Super Star flew with the crane logo in 1966, several members of the team personally have professional experience of this outstanding aircraft type dating back to the 1950s and 1960s – a unique Lockheed expertise without which such a successful project start would have been inconceivable. And these many decades of experience will continue to inspire the work of restoring the aircraft to an airworthiness in Auburn, Maine in the future.
The list of pioneering ideas and concepts that the Hamburg Super Star team has introduced since it was formed at the beginning of 2008 is too long to present here in detail. Two such examples are the creation of the first inspection program for the aircraft structure (Initial Structure Inspection Program, ISIP) and the development of the desired modifications to the flight deck. It was also their idea to adopt the plan of initially aiming for certification with minimal modifications to the N-registered aircraft under FAA regulations before refurbishing the aircraft more extensively at a later stage, probably under the aegis of the German Aviation Authority (LBA).
Even if a variety of work packages originally based in Hamburg have meanwhile been taken over by the team in Auburn for practical reasons, the Hamburg team deserves the credit for having pointed the way ahead for the success of the project from the design point of view. The Hamburg-based team will continue in the future to perform path-breaking tasks and to retain pioneering powers, for example when it comes to providing support for the complex landing gear overhaul at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg or to designing the future cabin interior under LBA supervision after the L-1649A arrives in Germany in a few years’ time.
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But the Hamburg-based L-1649 team would not be complete without the practicing engineers who still work for Lufthansa Technik and without exception are all qualified in accordance with the latest licensing requirements of the authorities. Markus Drexler, Michael Hopp, Dr. Stefan Schulte, Ludolf Ungerer and Philipp Reipschlaeger, head of the project office, are among the best in their profession. If you add their professional experience at Lufthansa Technik to that of the senior experts, the entire team boasts an impressive wealth of experience of around 500 years in the Lufthansa Group!
With the various individual qualifications, the Hamburg L-1649A team covers every discipline in the field of aircraft maintenance. Although 53 years have passed since the Lockheed L-1649A entered into service with the Lufthansa Group and it was in 1966 that the last Super Star flew with the crane logo in 1966, several members of the team personally have professional experience of this outstanding aircraft type dating back to the 1950s and 1960s – a unique Lockheed expertise without which such a successful project start would have been inconceivable. And these many decades of experience will continue to inspire the work of restoring the aircraft to an airworthiness in Auburn, Maine in the future.
The list of pioneering ideas and concepts that the Hamburg Super Star team has introduced since it was formed at the beginning of 2008 is too long to present here in detail. Two such examples are the creation of the first inspection program for the aircraft structure (Initial Structure Inspection Program, ISIP) and the development of the desired modifications to the flight deck. It was also their idea to adopt the plan of initially aiming for certification with minimal modifications to the N-registered aircraft under FAA regulations before refurbishing the aircraft more extensively at a later stage, probably under the aegis of the German Aviation Authority (LBA).
Even if a variety of work packages originally based in Hamburg have meanwhile been taken over by the team in Auburn for practical reasons, the Hamburg team deserves the credit for having pointed the way ahead for the success of the project from the design point of view. The Hamburg-based team will continue in the future to perform path-breaking tasks and to retain pioneering powers, for example when it comes to providing support for the complex landing gear overhaul at Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg or to designing the future cabin interior under LBA supervision after the L-1649A arrives in Germany in a few years’ time.
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