Airline Quickturning and Metal Fatigue

[RyanB]

Does the practice of doing ‘quick-turns’ in an airline setting specifically, cause metal fatigue?

Some of these aircraft are turned around in very fast time intervals.

Asking for a friend...

 

[Greg Bockelman]

It is not the turn itself, it is the pressurization cycle that would cause the fatigue.

 

[luvflyin]

Does the practice of doing ‘quick-turns’ in an airline setting specifically, cause metal fatigue?

Some of these aircraft are turned around in very fast time intervals.

Asking for a friend...

It’s the number of ‘cycles,’ not how long they take. Google B737, Hawaii. It may have been Aloha Airlines, maybe another. That’ll tell you about cycles

EDIT: Aloha 243

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Jimmy Stewart movie

Damn you! Oh, well it suited my evening nicely.

 

[sourdough44]

Machines are not horses, no need to ‘rest’ every 3 hours.

 

[CC268]

The planes get real grumpy if you don’t give them enough rest. That’s what the fatigue call is for...it’s for the planes.

 

[Stan Cooper]

https://www.airspacemag.com/need-to-know/what-determines-an-airplanes-lifespan-29533465/

 

[Larry in TN]

Sometimes, especially after sitting overnight, they forget that they are an airplane and we have to call a mechanic out to remind them so that they'll fly again.

 

[SkyDog58]

Sometimes, especially after sitting overnight, they forget that they are an airplane and we have to call a mechanic out to remind them so that they'll fly again.

A couple whacks with the hammer usually reminds them.

Works for the crew as well.