How to get a Boeing 737-400 in a hangar that is too small

Our neighbors on the field do that with their amphib otters, minus the hole in the ceiling-the roof is tall enough, the door just isn't.
 
A similar type deal gets done with airships from time to time. You can take the landing gear off to make it fit through the door (which is the usual issue with a blimp).
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
A similar type deal gets done with airships from time to time. You can take the landing gear off to make it fit through the door (which is the usual issue with a blimp).
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or you can use this....:D

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You would think after 22 years they would build a bigger hangar.. But quite impressive to say the least.
 
I wonder how many tails they have had to repair because of that foolishness....no sense in that.
 
smack300 said:
You would think after 22 years they would build a bigger hangar.. But quite impressive to say the least.
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Sometime that isn't even required. Many hangars have the small door that can be opened up top near the center that the top of the vertical stab would go through, when needed. Wonder if thats something that's retrofittable.
 
I imagine something like this going on two engineers sitting there deciding how to properly cut the building so that the tail will slide in and the ramper comes up and say "why don't you all just lower the tail by raising the nose with this here contraption."
 
MikeD said:
Sometime that isn't even required. Many hangars have the small door that can be opened up top near the center that the top of the vertical stab would go through, when needed. Wonder if thats something that's retrofittable.
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The smaller hangars in EWR are like this. In Smyrna, since its an old AF base, the hangars hand smaller doors in the middle of the main hangar doors that used to open do the tail of C130's could stick out of the hangar but have the doors shut. The hangars were built in WWII for bombers so when the 130's came along the hangars weren't deep enough. That my friends, is ingenuity.
 
I used to do something similar to that working at an FBO a few years back. One of our hangar doors was just a tad too short for either the G-V or Global (might have been both). So we'd tilt our Lektro tug buckets up to their highest position and it would give us just enough clearance to get the tails in the door. Watching it from any angle was actually quite unnerving.
 
Cal Goat said:
I used to do something similar to that working at an FBO a few years back. One of our hangar doors was just a tad too short for either the G-V or Global (might have been both). So we'd tilt our Lektro tug buckets up to their highest position and it would give us just enough clearance to get the tails in the door. Watching it from any angle was actually quite unnerving.
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Still have tail door nightmares.



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I've accomplished something similar by deflating/easing pressure in main struts and increasing pressure in nose struts.
 
Cal Goat said:
I don't know about you, but when I first got tow-certified, I'd have regular nightmares of runaway airplanes or accidentally smashing airplane appendages while I towed them.
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That particular nightmare came true for me, I like wing walkers that don't speak up.


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Cal Goat said:
I don't know about you, but when I first got tow-certified, I'd have regular nightmares of runaway airplanes or accidentally smashing airplane appendages while I towed them.
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I had nightmares of planes sliding on the ice! One time we were putting a King Air B200 in the hangar on a very windy winter night. The airplane started blowing sideways on the ice and towards a building. I had to run and slide under the wing with ice chalks and plant them around the wheel to stop the sliding. Crazy times!
 
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