AEROSPACE | TECHNOLOGY REPORT
in the test cell there was no room to use a traditional mobile crane, so it used a Megalift Jacking System with four giant hydraulic jacks instead. The data systems inside Testbed 80 are
more capable, and more complex, than on any existing testbed. They deliver data from more than 10,000 different parameters on an engine; an intricate web of sensors detect even the tiniest vibrations at a rate of up to 200,000 samples per second. The testbed is also home to a powerful
X-ray machine that can capture 30 images per second and beam them directly to a secure cloud where engineers around the world can analyse them. Rolls-Royce is the only engine manufacturer in the world to X-ray its engines while they are running. The walls of Testbed 80 are thick enough to contain the X-rays, which are so powerful they could otherwise X-ray a person standing six miles away. Street Crane has been supplying the
aerospace sector for over 70 years, with BAE PLANES IN A STACK
We have all experienced the spiralling-ramp and grey concrete depression of a multi-storey carpark. Multi-storey aircraft parks are more unexpected. But you can indeed park one aeroplane on top of another one. All you need is a hangar lift from Dutch company Hangar Tools. If you do happen to have two light aircraft that need parking you
or on its own supports. You park your aircraft with its wheels on structure is connected to a hoist in the mast. The hoist lifts the to park another aircraft underneath. It is not unlike a car-lift in a
Systems, Virgin Atlantic, and Bristow among recent customers. It has supplied cranes with single spans of more than 50 metres, multi-span cranes of more than 100 metres, and twin hoists with power slewing in unison. Secondary braking and load arrestors, overspeed protection and micro-speeds and infinitely variable speeds are standard for the sector. The complexities of aerospace engineering are immense. Cranes and hoists for them are simpler, but still have more than enough satisfying challenges. ●
necessary quality in a small-workshop operation. Both Ton and I are
structure using less steel and which avoids the complicated models from Yale. What is important to us is that they have world- wide service networks since the hoist is the most complicated seem to imply that our lifts do not go wrong. The hoists themselves also send a signal to the mast which engages a mechanical lock to ensure the aircraft stays safely in place. we can make higher-capacity lifts for twin-engined aircraft. We have just made a 3-ton-capacity one to lift a six-seater Cessna Golden
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