Shot location: IAH (Photos courtesy of our Texas Smartphone Division)
A hanger incident resulted in the un-commanded retraction of the nose gear, which caused enough damage to the forward jacking point to require some really creative thinking.
A specialized Boeing Team was brought in to jack the aircraft back up, and to repair the damage to the lower fuselage. This is where it got really interesting.
Apparently, with the proper apparatus and brackets, you can run a support beam on jacks through the cockpit windows to return the bird to her upright position.
Neat stuff.
3 comments:
A support goes down from the strongback, between the seats, and accesses the nose gear strongpoints from the top. I believe it passes through the nose gear access panel.
Pretty slick trick.
It's like headgear-- for a widebody!
That is so wicked looking.......through the window of cockpit.....looks like that's ground zero so to speak...like haveing braces.......yes pun.......with enough thought......anything can be........fixed......just stop drop and roll...........there's an answer.......I think...........♥
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