Explosion-proof missile transport

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 68 KB
• Volume: 273
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(62)90822-0

✦ Synopsis

Its electrical system alone weighs nearly as much as the heaviest load it will lift--about 45,000 lb.

To make the IC7406 primary reactor control system completely explosion-proof in hazardous atmospheres, General Electric sealed its parts in seven large cast iron enclosures, each an inch thick.

These house a precision a-c. primary reactor crane control system which operates smoothly and feathergently at any speed or load. Manipulating its sensitive controls, a skilled operator can place a 35-ton load to the last fraction of an inch in any direction and set it down so gently that delicate missile guidance instrumentation will not be disturbed.

Rigid Navy performance specifications require that the crane be able to