Flight delayed an hour due to technical issues. Turns out tyre/wheel showed a fault so they replaced it. Whilst we are sat aboard. Was a bit slow with the camera but it was off with one and on with another.

They didn’t even do a balance or the tracking it seems 😯

Sorry wrong forum

It would already be balanced though, surely?

What tyres for a jet airliner?

Probably not even the same brand as the others

Valve – logo alignment?

@Basil 🙂 I couldn’t check from where I was sitting !

Well it seemed to work ok as the pilot didn’t manage the smoothest landing and it all seemed to hold together. It’s quite impressive they can change the wheel that quickly really. Plans full of passengers and luggage. We’ll have to ask @dan

You’re an awfully long way back 🙂

You’re an awfully long way back

Planes don’t reverse into mountains

I think tga was making a slightly more subtle point 😉

A mild joke rather than a point, but yes 🙂

Evidently not as mild as my joke 🙂

It’s late!

No conveyor belt?

Once fitted, did they let all the air out for the flight?

Had a delay at LHR once en route to Amsterdam so they could change a tyre. Then when changing it they decided another one needed to be changed, so had to go off and get another spare wheel.

We sat on the tarmac for longer than the flight time.

You’re an awfully long way back

😀

What tyres for a jet airliner?

Tyres were already fitted and fully inflated in a cage in a workshop and we used to get them at 50psi. Once fitted we fully inflated them with Nitrogen to working pressure of 190-210 psi dependant upon aircraft. Although they should allegedly be safe it still used to concern me pumping them up to full pressure!

59 ‘ers?

Really make the runways come alive.

56 is dead.

57.5 shirly?

I hope that you are wearing STW approved “leisure” shoes.

Not that far back in the cabin, Harry.

Awaits “What Shoe for Cattle Class?” thread.

Aircraft tyres are mostly retreads as well.

“Awaits “What Shoe for Cattle Class?” thread.”

Surely?

😆

In the cheap seats. What shoes, was flying in my sailing gear having come straight from the event, had been wearing it for 4 days so not good news for other passengers. Business not worth paying for / using airmiles for a 60 min flight. Plane was cheaper than the train.

Sorry Jamba – missed this one! Rather than a tyre change, think slow version of a F1 wheel change. Every landing puts a little flat spot on the tyres as they spin up, so once they reach the limit, they will be changed on the turn-round between flights. I imagine the wheels are balanced in the workshop post tyre change. I’ve never had to report a 777 for wheel tracking so far!