C-5 transport, meet light pole

[Slater]

Supposedly on Guam. Timeframe unknown, but looks expensive.

 

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[tempestfan]

Can Galaxies taxi sideways? That pole is indented right into the mid wing tip, but there's no visible damage on the forward wingtip...?

[speedy]

Could it have been turning?

[Roland Pulfrew]

On 3/6/2023 at 3:05 PM, tempestfan said:

Can Galaxies taxi sideways? That pole is indented right into the mid wing tip, but there's no visible damage on the forward wingtip...?

It’s called “swept wing growth”.  All to do with the various radii of turn between main wheels and nose wheel.

[dnl42]

Yikes! That had to hurt.

[Dmitriy1967]

Great advertisement for a pillar manufacturer! 🙂

[wellsprop]

Oops! 

[Coors54]

Had a Voyager do this in St Johns on a training sortie, a week before Christmas too. It hit a building (slightly bigger than a lighting stantion....😳)

 

To add insult the marshaller on that wing was an ex pat ex RAF liney, he bought a lot of beers for the repair team! We had to truck the replacement slat up from Miami I seem to remember.

 

Then there was the DHL 727 freighter bringing horses into Coventry that hit a hangar as it turned onto stand, and I was responsible for AA's Twin Pioneer dinging the port wingtip as we manoeuvred it. When it happens it happens quickly and you can't quite believe it's happening m'lud, as @Roland Pulfrew says it's swept wing growth and surprisingly common.

 

But not as common as movers driving ground equipment into large stationary aircraft.......🤣

 

Dave