How does the NOSE CARGO DOOR work on the BOEING 747 explained by CAPTAIN JOE
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Dear friends and followers, welcome back to my channel and to a great video about "THE UNIQUE NOSE CARGO DOOR" of the Boeing 747 Freighter.
I´m sure many of you have wondered how the nose cargo door is opened and closed. To a big misconception, it is not opened and closed hydraulically, it´s actually driven by a small electric motor, which drives to flexible shafts into a gearbox on either side of the nose. The gearbox then drives a large threaded rod which is attached to the fuselage and nose which then by turning pushes the door open or pulls it inwards for closing.
Once it´s in the closed position a so-called "pull-hook actuator" hooks onto the fuselage and pulls the nose tight. Once fully closed the hook triggers an electrical signal to sixteen equally spread out latch actuators, which are small electric motors, pushing/turning a bolt through it respective counterpart. Once through the "loop", the bolt presses an electric switch signalling the latch actuator annunciator panel that the latch is closed and locked.
But see more in the video
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Not only do I like the fact that Kennedy Steve-isms appear to have made it to the intro, but the fact that he said “make the jumbo smile”.
Cal Reminds me of boot camp forty five years ago when our company commander would yell at us to "tighten it up, nut to butt, make that man in front of you smile"...ah good times, good times. Lol.
Joe, I hope you realize you'll have to make a video of you manually opening the cargo door :D That'll be some workout :P
I'm still asking for a video on minimums...lol
didn't he say it would take about an hour to open manually? I imagine pilots not doing that, that would be ground crew or Cargo Specialist if they fly as crew. In the Military that is handled by a person called a Load Master.
So what do we learn from this? NEVER become a cargo specialist 😅
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I'm a nurse, I've never been really interested in anything about flying, but Captain Joe makes it interesting for the ordinary person.
I have flown by C-5, You sit on the 2nd deck under the tail facing the wrong way. And you do not get a window seat. Take offs are odd feeling too as it feels like your face is being pulled of you as you are pulled out of your seat on the climb out. More fun if the pilot thinks he should of been a fighter pilot.
I have experienced flying facing the back of the plane several times on British Airways, I also sort of like the unusual "pulling" sensation on takeoff, plus for some reason I don't know I happen to sleep better during the flight in rear facing seats. :)
Unloading aircraft from a C5 is also fun in and of itself. Especially when you have to ride on top of it when it's coming out.
I saw a group of those parked on the other side of the runway at Wright Patterson AFB. Even from a distance away, they looked gigantic. They may have been the c-17 though, not sure.
@@toolhog10 When you see a C5 Galaxy up close you will never confuse it with another plane again.
@@toolhog10 I used to marshal i.e guide and park all kinds of aircraft I still remember the first time I marshaled in a C5 that was an experience. I was an E-1 just assigned to Norton AFB and I was at my unit signing in and my new Supervisor took me around the Hangars and a C5 landed needless to say I stopped in my tracks, when it taxied by the hangar all you saw was the T tail which was taller than the building. I'm still impressed by that Airplane to this day .
Hey joe, I think you should make a video on how your employer reacts to your KZhead channel. As in in when you were in air Berlin you never acknowledged it on camera, but after joining cargolux, you are open about your flying job. And also, do airlines see that having another aviation hobby (e.g. your yt channel) as an advantage in your CV? Thanks, and happy landings.
I just gave my thumbs up, the questions are very interesting and I want to read the answers!
He is open about his job for sure
I think CV is quite lax on these things, Christiaan Van Heijst the phoographer also flies for us and that never seems to have been a problem.
Captain Joe did briefly discuss that in his 2018 "look back" video. You should check it out if you haven't already.
There was a channel from a dutch train driver on youtube once. One day the dutch-train-company has forbidden him to show internals of the train displays / gauges while the train is running. He had to delete such videos on the channel...
5:42 Captain Joe, why did you blurred some text?
Wrong speed conversion
Yea, i checked it frame by frame there was an MPH conversion it might have been wrong i dont know.
This
the text is (cockpit)both of them
@@mosh2923 thanks random stranger
Go to 7:47 to see a 747 take off Hahahahah. . .
And nosewheei up at 748
And it aptly ends at 7:57 because that's another Boeing plane! hahaha
Brilliant!
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7:47 and 747, get it?
I appreciate the level if detail you go into in your videos. I don't know why I need to know that there exists two turning rods which can be inserted into coupling rods next to the gearboxes of a Boeing 747 nose cargo door for manual operation, but I'm glad I do.
Pretty complex latching scheme. You need to understand the manual release when you are stuck delivering something very large in some unexpected place. Also, if we can't confirm door locked and closed, we don't get to leave!
I am loving the Kennedy Steve intros! This one especially cracked me up!
WELL DONE CAPTAIN JOE ON ANOTHER AMAZING VID LIKE ALWAYS👍🏾💯
Thx for the engineers and also captain joe for our knowledge
Thank you for the subtitles oh God!🙏❤️
I had to see this as soon as i saw this come down on my notifications Love your vids joe hope i can start flight school this year.
Captain Joe, what makes the nose cargo door video so interesting is the detail you go into and the obvious joy you have in sharing it with us. Fly Safe!
Thanks for your appreciation !
thank U so much cap. joe for presenting ur vids with simple but precise explanations. hats off !
Joe your new job is providing some excellent new content. Thanks and good job!
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Another great video Captain Joe!!
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Thank you for all these wonderful informative videos, I try to watch them all.
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Hey Joe, great Video! But the speed of kts and mph is switched up at 5:33 in the top left corner 👍
I was looking to see if someone commented about it being blurred out
Floor rollers. Reminds me of the time decades ago when I was a Crew Chief on a C-141b. We went up on a pallet drop flight. I got a great view of the operation from my perch up in the crew rest platform. Once the clam shell doors opened and the pressure door was up, the parachute was deployed, and the first, aft, pallet was ripped from the fuselage. Then bam, bam, bam, like that, all seven or eight pallets were pulled from the aircraft. By the time the last, forward, pallet had exited the plane, the floor rollers were glowing red. I flew on a C-5 once. That plane is HUGE. Sitting facing the rear in the hump at the base of the vertical fin felt like we were not moving. Funny, I don't recall a stewardess on that flight.
The Queen always smiles when looking down on her subjects from up above
Thanks for the good words for engineers. My dad was an aerospace engineer.
Can you please show us the 3 "passenger windows" of the boeing 747 freighter?
I would like to know that too
Its actually tiny maybe 4 inches in diameter
It’s for the crew to sleep in
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Thanks fort the video. Never knew a 747 cargo had a nose door. Neat stuff.
What I like about your channel is that you take something that almost everybody has and compares it to something like the nose cargo door or why engines get white during take-off.
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The nose door is one of the main reasons the 747 exists. Boeing didn't know if the market for large capacity airliners would cover the cost of developing the aeroplane. But they figured there would be a market for a heavy lift freighter capable of carrying oversize items, that could cover costs if the airliner failed to sell.
Hence the "hump" containing the cockpit to be above the cargo door, which was extended to provide those first class seats or lounges. It's an almost perfect example of a company engineering its way around a possibly fatal problem (not enough committed customers for a plane that they were betting the company on) and coming up with what is one of the most iconic and long lived airframes ever built. She may be long in the tooth but when you see that characteristic outline you still can't help think, "Damn, that's a fine plane!" No jumbo after her will be as memorable.
Correct, it was designed as a cargo aircraft in mind as supersonic travel was all the rage back then
Kudos to Boeing for having a workable Plan B.
@@msr1116 The cargo variant was actually Plan A. The prototype aircraft, which was never built, only designed, that eventually became the 747, was originally Boeing's entry into the USAF C-5 competition. Lockheed won that one, and Boeing re-worked the design into a combination cargo/passenger aircraft, and the 747 was born.
I just happened to stumble across this video, and it brought back many memories. I can’t count the number of late evenings we spent with the shop trying to get these nose doors to rig. Getting the net trim, the seal and all the locks working together sometimes took some last minute scurrying to get it all correct.
Was at ORD termnial 5, 3 weeks ago and saw a CargoLux 748F taxi by, I thought it might just be you. Glad to hear some Stellardrone make it into a video. His work creeps into my head when I'm flying at dusk, night, or dawn. He captures the majestic scenery pretty darn well.
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All my flight instructor did was yell at me.
😞 Really
@fixpacifica your not a pilot you fucking liar
How about a video about what airac data is, how often it is updated, and more about it. Why is it used and updated., etc. Thanks.
Thanks for the tutorial. Now it's more clear how i should operate my 747's cargo door.
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Your intro is much more enjoyable than the one Mentour pilot uses, not too high volume and not too long intro.
Hey Captain Joe, you should check out the Boeing Dreamlifters. There heavily modified 747s and we made to transport parts from around the world up to Everett. We see them here pretty much every other day or so!
I was just about to post the same comment about the 747 BLCF. I think Joe probably left them out since Atlas Air is operating them for Boeing to transport the 787 Dreamliner parts and not as a cargo plane.
@@agentgun3246 The Dreamlifters are operated as cargo planes - just not as commercial cargo planes.
Very nice keep doing it keep it going !! Big like from IRAQ 🇮🇶
9/11 was all your fault
ikichullo .. How 9/11 it was our fault .. It was cous OIL and only for oil .. Give me one person he was included in 9/11 chaos!!
@@ikichullo The hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were mostly Saudi Arabian, although citizens of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Lebanon were also involved - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_attacks . There were no Iraqi hijackers.
Your videos are very informative, I always look forward to them.
Excellent review of the latch limit system as well - nice work!
I was literally thinking about the nose door of the 747-8F recently - Used to think the cockpit went up with the nose haha - Now the thought of that makes me look dumb :P
AIUI some specialist planes (e.g the super guppy) do have the cockpit in the nose door. The problem is it causes difficulties with routing the flight controls, putting the cockpit above (as in the 747 and I belive also the AN124/AN225) or below (as is the case in the beluga) the cargo area avoids these issues.
I didn't expect to see in a civilian aircraft video, its good to know that both we love cars & civil aircrafts btw.
do a video on tail cargo doors, from military to civilian
I find it very funny when the 747 ‘smiles’. Good job explaining how the door works. Liked👏
How much I like your channel captain Joe. When I was young my dream was to become a pilot like many other fellas, but due to some life problems unfortunately I had to keep it as a dream. With these super videos at least I can still learn and see what I really wanted to see in reality. Thanks for every informative clipp😋😋😋🛩🛩🛩🛫🛫🛫🛬🛬🛬✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈
Facts: The cargo plane laughs harder and harder as the nose cargo door opens
Would be cool a little history of ww2 military aircrafts :)
Fascinating video...Thanks man!
Frohes Neues 🛬🛫🛬🛫 Danke dass du dir die Zeit nimmst uns die Luftfahrt näher zu bringen 😍
I just realized you work for cargolux
Very interesting video! I have a question. Is the cargo deck of the 747F pressurized or do you pressurize only the cockpit in flight?
@Don Taylor vehicles with tires would not be affected, automobile tires can easily take the pressure difference. I also thing you are right though, I think the cargo bay is pressurised (don't quote me on it though lol)
Pressurized and air conditioned/heated. One type of cargo they can carry is race horses, need pressurization and climate control for them. There's another channel that posted a video of a Lufthansa MD-11F flight where they carried horses, the cargo area is pressurized but anyone venturing there mid-flight needs to carry an oxygen bottle as there are no drop-down masks.
@@mikeL5183 Thanks for your answer!😊
@@mikeL5183 I watched that same video! That was so cool, and it must have been hard to keep the horses from spooking, they must have been quite bomb proof horses
They're pressurised and temperature controlled One time a FedEx 777 carried a panda all the way to china And the plane was totally configured for its comfort
Wonderful video! The 747 is nothing short of a royal aircraft.
So nice to hear Kennedy Steve again!
663rd comment :D Captain Joe, you have inspired me to become an Airbus A350-900 XWB pilot for Delta. I owe you lots..
If the Airbus Beluga doesn’t make you smile there’s something wrong with you.
Same with Boeing's Dreamlifter
The beluga looks hideous
Jason Yin It has a smile how dare you sir 😂
Lol I saw it and laughed hard
@@user-mn9gu7bs1v Yea I was thinking Jesus that's an ugly ass plane.
Hi Joseph....very well done. Even after 23 years flying this aircraft I can refresh my technical knowledge with this video.
Thanks for this video Sir.
I'm pretty sure that An-124 has a nose cargo door as well. It's also an interesting fact that when the nose cargo door opens, the An-124 front gear lowers it self and gets into a kneeling position.
There is a foot to hold the aircraft during the kneeling. Still a great sight to see
@@elroynathanael6535 I totally agree.
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Brilliant !!! Cargo planes seem.so cosy !!!! They are cosy and comfortable. Cosy and private
Thank you for sharing this information
Knock knock, the AN 225 has a complaint
I was thinking exactly that.
I don't get it? Lol He mentioned the AN 225 and also there is only one 225 but many many 747s
Hi
Thanks for video God bless you
Great video as always, and it's fun to see more of the cargo side of aviation.
What about the Boeing Dreamlifter? Does the tail section work on the same principal?
It has a swing tail as far as I now!
@@flywithcaptainjoe Haha, that's a pretty cool name! Thanks for the quick reply, appreciate your work :)
@@krnxlion I remember seeing this video a long time ago, I had to go look it up kzhead.info/sun/i5uxpryAnoyqY58/bejne.html
@@bikecommuter24 Thanks mate! Didn't know that the tail door was opened with a truck
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Every video you put up is so interesting. Great work!
Absolutely amazing
An-225?
They down voted. :)
An-225 exists only in one instance. But An-124 also has a nose door
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Super cool explanation Captain Joe, One more thing in my knowledge Bag. Thank You.
Very helpful video Captain Joe!! Thank you :)
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You can like it without viewing
The amount of views has to be checked before it can be shown to be higher than 31... The amount of likes? Whatever, we don't care if you hire bots to like your videos :P
Redundancy?
*This channel is supposed to be about piloting aircrafts, not opening doors* (I put here space because I wanted to troll a little bit :D) Just kidding! I enjoyed A LOT this video, becase Joe has shown us the mechanisms, redundant systems and even the controls of the door. I JUST LOVE BUTTONS AND LIGHTS!!! What else can be expected? The most iconic civil aircraft ever build exceeds expectations :)
How about opening doors to become a pilot....?
@@becsterbrisbane6275 That's a good point! Just in case, my previous comment is a few lines long, perhaps you haven't realised the first sentence is a joke.
The plural of Aircraft is Aircraft, not Aircrafts! Just saying!
Any thing about aviation is appreciated
@@Avgeek1564 Didn't know, English is my second language. Thanks for the correction :)
Thanks a lot for this video sir !
Thank YOU Joe. As an aircraft engineer is it great to see you explain the processes and systems involved with this system. What a beast the aircraft is. Design engineers in aviation really are clever at designing backup systems.... Until you have to retrofit them, then they can be flawed. I used to work cargo converted business jets and setting the latch micro switches on the cargo door could be quite a lengthy process. This looks much easier despite the airframe being bigger. Thank you for your content. I hope you love your cargo job. Certainly a different world of flying. All the best, Rich.
The 747 version of the Airbus Beluga, but I much prefer the Beluga
Personally, I don't like or trust anything made by Airbus. I do recognise that some of Boeing's business practices are, umm, questionable, but I still prefer their planes to all others.
R3dp055um I trust Airbus cause I work for them.
@@R3dp055um eh, they're both highly competent companies on their products at least, well tested and advanced machines. What I wouldn't trust is an experimental aircraft or something with a big accident history or glaring project failures. I mean both Boeing recently had huge issues with the 787's batteries bursting into flames mid air, and Airbus had that huge problem on the A320s flight computers not recognizing properly a touch & go on some airports, both fixed weren't they? I get it that one could prefer the fact that in a Boeing you still have the hydraulic controls at hand/feet even with terrible electrical failures, but I doubt any pilot could (and that the controls would resist) handling such a huge machine with power assists down.
@@R3dp055um Not liking them, sure whatever. Not trusting them is stupid.
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Very interesting facts about the Boeing 747 freighter, especially the opening & closing mechanism of the front cargo door! Great job, Captain Joe!
Fantastic Video Cpt. Joe! I really enjoyed the effort you put into this. Liked
Great video! I would love it if you could make more cargo-oriented content. It's super interesting and isn't talked about nearly enough.
That was especially interesting, Captain Joe; I really like the in-depth look at the mechanisms of aircraft.
Great video! The procedure on the 747 seems a lot easier than on other planes where the entire nose flips up. On these, complete flight controls need to be disconnected before the door can open.
It’s so pleased to see you use footage of Cathay Pacific Aircraft! Greetings from a Hong Kong People and a Cathay Pacific employee!
You are so positive! That's what we need nowadays.
Wish you all the best of luck this 2019 Joe!
That opening nose cone is adorable, seriously! ✈️
Hey Cap Joe! Your videos rock!!!! Awesome content as usual
So happy Captain Joe is now in the Boeing camp. So proud.
nothing better than start video with humor from Kennedy Steve
Captain Joe and B747.. Amazing
That cliffhanger though!! Love your videos Captain Joe!! Thank you, keep making such amazin content!
Thank you for your very interesting videos
I hope it's gonna be a big enough door to make way for all those Captain Joe hats! Love the videos!!! Amazing work and a beautiful explanation, as captivating as day 1 of your channel!
Love your videos. Very easy to understand.
This is fantastic, Joe! Pleasure collaborating with you. By the way - the 2014 loading the telescopic joint was interesting in that the nose door actually suffered the failure of one of the actuators upon closing. I spoke with the engineer about it and learned that the MEL allows the aircraft to depart with one of the 16 actuators not working, but no more than that. He simply contacted the maintenance crew at the flight's destination (Anchorage) so that they could have the parts and equipment ready. This meant they could repair/replace the actuator upon arrival without delaying either flight. Really neat process! Blue skies, brother.
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Super awesome Joe, I just love this hey... Thanks for creating this video...
Hey capitan Joe..just saw a Cargolux 747 at MCT international airport. I just love watching your videos , waiting for the next one...cheers from Oman..
Thanks! I was not sure which type of Boeing I should order for my backyard.
Such interesting videos every time. You never disappoint.