scoobert said:
so your not in the transportation part of boeing? because if you were you might know more.
the plane itself is high, in fact 16'8" is whats listed. what they have done here is put it on a trailer that the deck is about 3' off the ground. putting the plane at almost 20' high. we have used trailers that the deck is 6" off the ground and one that was 3" off the ground, trailers that cost $5,000,000 new. the reason for the deck being so low is to keep the load low. going down the road at 20' high is hard, very hard. going down the road at 17' is about 20 times easier. i should know, i have done nuclear power plant parts that are worth $200,000,000 and weigh 250tons, and are 23' tall on a trailer that is built to haul 250 tons. it took us about 6 hours to go 8 miles. the trailer was trucked 800 miles to haul it. i run with the company that hauled the plane out of the hudson. J supor & son of Harrison NJ. i have photos to prove i have worked with them if requested.
this plane weights about 25 tons, very light by comparison to what we have hauled in the past. it should have been on a perimeter trailer. if it was on this trailer it would have fit under the lights, most light are about 18' high (boeing engineers would not know that). they made a hard job harder by not knowing what they were doing. might have been the government moving it with their own trucks, would not surprise me that it was done wrong in that case.
and not to mention i work with GE, who hauls parts to make custom cradles for turbines from 300 miles away...
Nope, not in transportation, but we work with them all the time for transporting large assemblies. Remember the rail car part of my post?
And you are correct. Planes do not weight all that much. If they did, they would not fly. That's pretty simple and basic.
The height does not matter a tinkers damn. What matters is the lowest point you have to go under. That is what you plan for as an engineer. As I stated, you design for the job that you have to perform, not what could happen. That is the difference between Billy Joe Bob's Heavy Hauling and Cat Shit Retrieval company and what we do in the aircraft industry.
That trailer was designed to do one job, and one job only. Haul that aircraft form point A to point B. That is it. And the designers of that trailer knew what it needed to go under, over, or around when they did the design.
And it was not the government that was involved at that point. That aircraft has not been delivered yet, so it was the responibility of Lockheed to arrange transportation.
So you can spout all the bullshit you want, I still know better.
And just for the record. When I was young, my father owned a couple trucks and I worked as a driver for him, so I know a little bit about trucking also.
From what I have see you drive a escort vehicle, which does not mean you know shit.
Your turn to once again show your ignorance and show how stupid you are.:congrats:
