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<\/a>The cowl was attached to the fuselage for transport, then pushed outside the shop to be loaded onto a 22′ heavy equipment trailer. Initially we intended to load the plane facing forward, but found rolling it on backwards would be much easier.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n WING TRANSPORT<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2022 Labor Day weekend saw the transportation of fuselage and wings to the final assembly location in my hangar at KTTA.\u00a0 Many thanks to Terry G. for the use of his equipment, his expertise and patience in dealing with a very nervous builder (me) during the “Big Move”. The cowl was attached to the …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logistics","category-rv-10-build-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12754"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>The trailer was about 8’6″ wide, but the main landing gear wheels were about 8′ even.\u00a0 As a result, the movable ramps had to be relocated outwards to accommodate loading the plane. An electrical winch attached to the tail cone started pulling the fuselage up the ramp.\u00a0 Eventually the pull angles were wrong, so we used the body weight of two people to hold down the tail while others pushed the main wheels between grates on the loading ramp.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Loading was a very slow, deliberate process as the leeway between main wheels and edge of the trailer was only about 3″ on either side. The fuselage was carefully inched backwards up the ramp and into position.\u00a0 A wheel coming off the trailer would have spelled disaster and could have ruined the entire fuselage.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>More photos inching the fuselage onto the trailer.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Eventually the main wheels were chocked close to each edge.\u00a0 Multiple ratchet straps held down the main and front wheels. These were tightened into a very stable configuration; one secured from movement in all directions (left, right, forward, backwards, and up).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Rolling down the highway towards the airport!\u00a0 The actual road transport went without any issues with a safe arrival at the end.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Multiple volunteers helped unload the fuselage – basically the reverse of the load process, but much easier with the gravity assist.\u00a0 Here the fuselage was moved off the trailer…<\/p>\n<\/a>… and into the hangar.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Now that the ‘big move” was complete, the protective film on the windows was removed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>The wings were moved to the airport with Tal’s trailer just as previously posted from house to shop.<\/p>\n