5 May
2015
5 May
'15
6:16 a.m.
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.
paul