Re: Basket Case Tear Down Part 4

Posted by El Toro on May 10, 2007 at 10:46:09 from (64.12.117.8):

In Reply to: Re: Basket Case Tear Down Part 4 posted by neblinc on May 10, 2007 at 10:16:22:

That test course was known as the Dynamometer Test Course. It was a mile long and perfectly flat. In 1992 one of our technician's was running a brake test on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the vehicle flipped over and killed him. He was standing looking out the turret and
was caught under all that weight. The course was made in the early 1940's and never had a fatality. They stopped using that course and
used another course known as 3 mile straightaway.
It was paved too.

It is in the Boondocks and there's beaver in that swamp area. You see what it takes to build in the swamp. Never had any problems with the blacktop heaving. Those beaver were workers they damed up everything causing water to overflow over the roadway. That vehicle had twin Ford Tank engines rated at 500hp each. It was electric drive similar to a locomotive and chain driven too. Hal
PS: The complete unit was over 100 feet long. The turnarounds were a little tight. The M7 weighed 60 tons.

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