I remember someone posting a couple of pics of a truck what had plane parts on it
I think it was Brabus but my brain saying Heathrow service
Can anyone repost them here please and anymore trucks that carry plane stuff intresting to see how they trailers look
Cheers
A plain truck?
(Full credit to Dave the Renegade for the pic)
Sorry, couldn’t resist 
Brabus are a mental tuning company for mercedes benz,
your probably thinking of the airbus trailers with the axles set right at the back.
gogzy:
Brabus are a mental tuning company for mercedes benz,your probably thinking of the airbus trailers with the axles set right at the back.
That’s the one airbus dunno what made me put Brabus 
Na dew plane as in airplane
One or two here from a friend of mine David Kay, Aerospace manager Jan De Rijk. Based at Heathrow, lives near Preston.
David has his back to the camera supervising the loading of an Airbus engine.
good pics tankerman, especially the last one.
Agree with Kindle some good pics
Keep them coming people
A random question what the weight of a airbus engine ?
Are they loaded with a folk lift or a special way ?
As the sec from last pic looks like got its got like a lifting/jack bar
Dave Kay designed and built the lifting gear and the special trailers, I have over a hundred more photos he took but a lot are restricted. I will sort out somemore.
Many thanks tankerman
I was told this was a plane part
Yep looks like one to me
That’s where the driver sits, the driver in this case is the lorry driver having a play.
They had just loaded one of the engines onto his lorry so there was no chance of him flying away.
Some intresting shots Tankerman cheers for posting
What’s the weight of say this engine?
I managed to contact Dave last night regarding your question. He was still in his office at Heathrow, they had just loaded an engine for a BMI plane broken down at Frankfurt and he was sorting everything out ready for the driver to hotfoot it over there.
The picture you asked about was taken at the G.E. Factory at Nantgrw, South Wales, the lorry is their internal shunter and the engine is a GE90 and only fits the Boeing 777.
It weighs 9 ton on the plane but with the cradle the total weight on the lorry is 11 ton. They cost 14 million quids each.
Last time I past Nantgrw was about 35 years ago and there was a colliery and smelly old coke ovens there.
9ton not bad Cradle extra 3ton
Do that transport the wings in a specially made box trailer ? Or they fitted at the factory that builds the plane?
Sorry for the questions 
These you mean?
And i think this is technically a plane part
Jan de Rijk specialise in moving the engines about and I have never heard Dave mention wings, nor have I seen any wings being moved in any photos he sends me.
I am not being facetious but; 9 ton for the engine, engine on cradle 11 ton, cradle 2 ton. Not 3 ton as you put.
I know from watching the Northern news that the Airbus wings are made at Broughton near Chester and floated down the river Dee on a special barge, then they are put on another ship and taken to France to be fitted to the fuselage. They looked big things on the TV and only just passed under a bridge at low water.
A few more.
Spot on nicky mate
I dunno what made me put 3 
Long day I’ll blame it on lol
Some more good pics Tankerman intresting stuff you don’t see unless your in that field of work
Tankerman:
I know from watching the Northern news that the Airbus wings are made at Broughton near Chester and floated down the river Dee on a special barge, then they are put on another ship and taken to France to be fitted to the fuselage. They looked big things on the TV and only just passed under a bridge at low water.
Hi Tankerman,
I used to subcontract some STGO ■■■■■■ work from Convoi Exceptionnel in Southampton, one regular job involved me meeting a French truck in Dover and providing an ■■■■■■ to Broughton.
(IIRC, the origin of the load was Toulouse, but my memory isn’t clear on this.)
The overall vehicle length was 25meters (give or take) but the cargo weighed only approx 11 tons.
The ■■■■■■ paperwork said that it was a wing, but instead the load seemed more like the internal skeleton framework and cross-bracing of a wing once it was unsheeted to be offloaded. I think these wings were being taken to Broughton for further assembly.
As I said above dave, I don’t know anything about the wings, my friend is only involved with the movement of the engines. Anyway you got me interested so I looked it up.
“All large A380 sections are transported by truck from inland production sites to the nearest river or sea port.
Wings, for example, travel by barge along the River Dee from Broughton in North Wales to the Dee estuary, where they are loaded onto a large capacity roll-on roll-off vessel. The craft is used to move aircraft sections by sea to the French port of Pauillac, near Bordeaux.
Here, the components are transferred to specially designed barges, which carry them on the penultimate part of their 95 km voyage up the Garonne river from Pauillac to Langon. Four river journeys are required to transport fuselage sections and the horizontal tail plane of one aircraft.
In Langon, aircraft sections are transferred to outsized-load trucks to complete their journey to Toulouse by road.”
Further reading says the Port of Mostyn handles the wing transfer, maybe the ones you escorted were the frames for smaller wings or they are smaller before they are finally assembled.
I do remember seeing the barge on TV news and it was very close to the underside of a bridge on the Dee, the newsreader said that they could only be moved on a clam day when the sea level was at it’s lowest.
They are ■■■■ big things for sure.
A good mate of mine flies a 737 private business jet out of Leeds and get all over the world with crazy well heeled so called stars and football teams.
He told me the time he was most scared was flying in a storm over Africa which they had no chance of avoiding and the wing tips were flexing 18 feet.
The Airbus must flex much more than a 737.