5 May
2015
5 May
'15
7:57 a.m.
Well the other story I know but can't confirm also concerned a fork lift
truck and Heathrow.
DEC10's were shipped with the cabs bolted together and sitting on a long
shipping base.
The cargo plane (CL-44?) had a very wide door and the system could be
got in at a narrow
angle and secured on the centre line of the plane. This was done with
the help of a large scissor lift.
At Heathrow they did thereverse. Park the scissor lift at a not quite
parallel angle to the plane.
Push the system onto the scissor lift and lower to the ground. Then
crane it onto a low loader for transport to site.
Well one day there was no scissor lift at Heathrow and the plane was
needed elsewhere. Some bright spark
had the system pushed up to the doorway and put the lift truck forks
under the front end.and backed away swinging the front end out of the door.
A second truck then put its forks under about two thirds of the way
down and backed away. The back end cleared the door OK.
Sad to say the forks were not far enough under the system and it fell
off and went down abount twenty feet.
It was very bent. Then surprise surprise two days later a team from DEC
10 manufacturing arrived with several pallets of parts and proceed to
rebuild it then and there.
They did it in a week and the system was delivered on time with very
few knowing what had happed.
Rod Smallwood
On 05/05/2015 15:08, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-05-05 15:16, Paul Koning wrote:
I suspect it's not true. While I can believe the drive not being
properly secured, I do not think it would exit the airplane. Witness
the military 747 that went down in Afghanistan(?) where the internal
cargo shifted enough that the plane couldn't fly anymore. The cargo
still stayed inside the plane, and I suspect that was a hell of a lot
more than an RP03...
I would expect the RP03 to have been banged up some, though. But maybe
still working.
Johnny
On May 5, 2015, at 5:38 AM, Rod Smallwood
<rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
I think the best one I ever saw was an LA36 at our Heathrow warehouse.
I worked for the Terminals Product Line and one of my jobs was to go
with the insurance man
to look at damaged in transit claims.
LA36's were shipped screwed to something like a half sized pallet,
Then a cardboard box with no top or bottom over that and finally a
lid on top
Then the usual strapping holding lid and box to the pallet.
They would be unloaded off the plane by fork lift truck.
They had managed to get one fork through the cardboard outer,
then through the back of the steel plinth, the two circuit boards
inside,
the front of the plinth and then the other side of the box.
There?s a story (possibly true) about an RP03 that was being
air-shipped from Boston airport. The pallet was not properly
strapped down, so when the plane applied takeoff power, the plane
started moving but the RP03 stayed in place. It exited through the
rear fuselage and landed on the tarmac, bending the corner of the
frame quite a lot.
It was taken back to Maynard for inspection. The local techs put a
couple of bricks under the bent corner and applied power. The drive
worked fine.