Day 11
The last days and hours are here. We have two days of shows and then we're done. Nothing to fix. Everything is working fine. I guess it's time to start thinking about strike.When the vans aren't on a ship somewhere they are located in the Narragansett Bay URI campus. The Control Van and Image Van are separated by a large fork truck, lovingly named "Big Bird".
When we go to sea, we bring as much extra cable, connectors, and parts as we can. They are all stored in locking crates that we pack into the Control and Image Van, as they are pretty much empty voids while in transit.
Argus is slid into the Tool van, which is basically a shop for the engineers and pilots to be able to rebuild ANY part that might fail on the vehicle. All the vans (Control, Image, Tool, and Satellite) are set onto 53' flat-bed trucks and shipped to whatever port we're shipping out of. They also bring a Winch, to deploy Argus, the Air Conditioners for the Tool, Control and Image Van and a transformer to convert the ship's 480 Volt power service to a 220 2-phase.
posted by DaveandBrian @ 8:10 AM
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