US crew starts five‑week rebuild of John Travolta's Boeing 707 wing

US crew starts five‑week rebuild of John Travolta's Boeing 707 wing
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A nine‑member US crew began reattaching the 65‑foot‑long, 6.5‑tonne wing of John Travolta's Boeing 707 on Wednesday, 14 October, with the work scheduled to continue for five weeks.

The team will reinstall a total of 5,400 bolts inside the wing, after having spent 70 days earlier in the year disassembling the aircraft, and the overall rebuild involves more than 5,000 pieces.

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