At the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), a major facility of the US Department of Defense, the focus is aerial combat systems, including air-to-air, cruise missiles, and gunnery training. Operating in this diverse environment, a tall, mobile hangar required a highly secure vertically opening door system.
Engineering challenge Raising a steel multipaneled door weighing several tons, factoring in the non-standard tolerances of a moving structure.
Custom solution The central mechanism employed a time-tested passive fail-safe drive system with counterbalanced weights.
