Airplane Maintenance Documentary

Surprisingly, most of the construction for aircrafts is not done by mechanics/technicians that work for airplane companies themselves. The majority of the work is usually done by small, family-owned businesses. Along with mechanics and technicians, plenty of different types of engineers work together to assemble various parts of the plane. Some of those engineers include...

• Aerospace
• Mechanical
• Electrical
• Computer Systems
• Materials Science

There are over 4700 of those small repair facilities around the world, employing almost half a million people. The job of these maintenance employees is extremely important for the safety of every single passenger that flies on a plane. 

Each plane has to be constructed perfectly to ensure nothing goes wrong during its flight. Basically every individual part of the plane is constructed separately, designed and put together by several engineers and mechanics. They have to take extreme caution and test their work many times. The process is similar to that of building an automobile, and maybe even more significant considering larger planes can carry hundreds of passengers on board. 

The work of these engineers are extremely important, and a lot of the specific designing and product testing is extremely complex. Without the knowledge and care of these people, flying would be completely unreliable and unsafe. I encourage anyone interested in learning how planes are made to watch the short documentary. 

-Danny

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OEt6SkdA4M