Charlie Trust me I've seen quite a few meetings, lav trucks, catering, de-ice, almost anything that gets up close and personal does get to close and to personal. ------ >-- Regards YXAndy --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx> Subject: [LRflex] Re: The Works To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 10:33 PM Andy Wagner wrote: Charlie I could see this thing hitting the side of a plane!! ------ >-- Regards YXAndyAndy, I don't know any rates, but all kinds of similar ground vehicles swarm over an airliner every time it turns around. The first time a 777 went out of the US during the flight test, a jet way took one of its doors clean off, and it was stuck there until they could fly a new door down to it. Here is one for catering the upper deck of an A380, being demonstrated on a mock up: http://www.theeuropeanvancompany.eu/01/MyImages/aircraft_catering_boxes.jpg -- Charlie Falke _____ /\ | __/\__/------/__) |(____\/_________/ "One test result is worth | |/ `o one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun 0 N4003M "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/