"Airport on Wheels" Carries Shop and Lights

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Any cow pasture can be transformed into an emergency airport on short notice by taking to it a complete service shop on wheels, called a mobile airport, equipped to make permanent repairs to damaged airplanes, motor trucks, engines and machinery. In war it permits the shifting of landing fields overnight, and several units have been ordered for use in France, many smaller “traveling shops” already having been shipped to China. Weighing 26,000 pounds, the “airport on wheels” carries a lighting system for the airport, power lathe, drill press, carpentry shop, a two and one-half ton boom rigged on top for lifting motors from planes, welding apparatus, and two-way radio. The engine that runs the six-wheel drive also drives the generator to operate floodlights and all of its equipment, as well as to recharge batteries, if no outside current is available. Two spare wheels, mounted at the front, act as a bumper in pushing planes around the field. When the shop is in use the sides open outward providing overhead shelter for the workmen. A three-man crew can operate the unit. For convenience in shipping it or transporting it over unsafe bridges, the mobile airport is constructed so it can be taken apart in small sections and assembled again quickly.

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"Airport on Wheels" Carries Shop and Lights

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"Airport on Wheels" Carries Shop and Lights

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eng

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1940-04

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513

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Public Domain (Google digitized)

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Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)

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