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Liv2soar 10-01-2014 08:24 AM
FedEx Parking (jet drives up to foam bar)
 
Anyone on this forum have a picture they can post regarding the foam pad suspended from a pole where the jet can drive up to until the front windshield touches the bar??

I have heard these exist only in the Memphis hub.

Thanks!

Greg Bockelman 10-01-2014 08:25 AM
Originally Posted by Liv2soar (Post 1737934)
Anyone on this forum have a picture they can post regarding the foam pad suspended from a pole where the jet can drive up to until the front windshield touches the bar??

I have heard these exist only in the Memphis hub.

Thanks!
It is a pretty effective Accu-Park system.

I haven't seen one in years.

jzuniga 10-01-2014 08:48 AM
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Boston has one with a little monkey hanging on it…;-)

Z

jzuniga 10-01-2014 08:54 AM
If I recall, they're scattered around the system. But not many of them. Memphis did/does have a couple of them too…

Z

MD11Fr8Dog 10-01-2014 11:46 AM
Originally Posted by liv2soar (Post 1737934)
anyone on this forum have a picture they can post regarding the foam pad suspended from a pole where the jet can drive up to until the front windshield touches the bar??

I have heard these exist only in the memphis hub.

Thanks!
I believe IAD, EWR, BOS, OAK....? Maybe a few others.

http://cl.ly/image/2v3T2D3c2I1F/IMG_5731.jpg

MD11Fr8Dog 10-01-2014 11:47 AM
Originally Posted by jzuniga (Post 1737960)
Boston has one with a little monkey hanging on it…;-)

Z

For the longest time, it used to be that ratty old parrot. Then one day it was gone, then the monkey arrived!

Laughing_Jakal 10-01-2014 01:53 PM
Redneck technology....started life as an old tennis ball in a garage in Germantown

XprsFr8r 10-01-2014 04:23 PM
I never understood how that little foam bar could stop a big airplane, but it worked every time.:D

tomgoodman 10-01-2014 07:25 PM
Back in the day, we just had a ramp worker lie down where the nose wheel was supposed to stop. His name was Chock Norris. :D


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