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Old 14-10-06, 01:01
Mike Timoshyk Mike Timoshyk is offline
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Trying to identify last vehicle in this clip....can anyone help?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhFRGzh0s0
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Old 14-10-06, 01:35
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Old 14-10-06, 02:15
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Trying to identify last vehicle in this clip....can anyone help?

Mike,

It would not play for me, but from the opening shot and viewers comments, it is the same one that was forwarded to me last year.
I guess you are refering to the vehicle that breaks free of the platform and takes off at 100mph? I am sure it is a rough terrain fork lift. Earlier shots show a Michigan or Clark loading shovel which turns over. As for the last shot,..........ooooouuuchhhhh

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Old 14-10-06, 11:14
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Yes there is a lot more to the dropping of vehicles and supplies, than shoving it on a platform and letting it rip.

You have three problems to overcome.

1. Whilst the load is being extracted, that it does not want to swing over upside down, so that it does not land on the ground without the platform contacting first.

2. The next problem is to get the right amount of honeycomb material under the axles. If you look closely at the michican, the front axle is closer to the platform, than the other axles. This is done to ensure the impact is spread gently through the length of the vehicle, or you end up bending something.

We had a lot of problems down here, with LWB Land Rovers, they would always bend their chassis until we got the impact material, right.

3. If you put in too much material, the load becomes top heavy, and so becomes instable.

Good air depatchers know just the right way to set the load up, I would say judging on their lack of success they were packed by reservists, who just did not have the experience.

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