Tanzania: Orbus flying eye hospital

 Orbus DC10 flying eye hospital.

 Back when I was living in Dar es Salaam with the help of my airport security pass, myself and a couple of colleagues got to have a look through this visiting DC10.
We've all seen lavishly kitted out private jets that usually belong to some oil rich Arab Sheik who has nothing better to do with his money, instead of jacuzzis, cocktail bars and kingsize beds this old DC10  is a full blown eye hospital!
It is completely run by charity, the aircraft was donated by Fedex, the pilots are volunteers from United Airlines, and runs on donations.

This is the recovery room, through those doors is the surgery we were unable to hace access as surgery was in progress. The surgery itself is super engineered, it is directly over the wings to ensure maximum stability. But then even with an aircraft parked on the ground it still moves slightly so to compensate for this movement that you and I wouldn't usually feel the surgery floor is gyro stabilized. You don't want the surgeon to slip while he operating on your eye!

Laboritory and examination room.

Theartre room...the only screening on this day was live eye surgery

Our quick mock up flight crew....its quite multi-cultural a Spanish flight engineer, Iranian first officer (He'd prefer to be called Persian) and myself a Kiwi captain (I wish).

Personally I believe this flying eye hospital is amazing going the world to developing nations (Poor places) and bringing sight to disadvantaged people who otherwise would not have the opportunity to see.