Re: Engineers Was Re: TOE

At 8:53 AM +0200 7/3/04, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
>
>Actually, I think a simple landing gear or add-on wheels is more or
less a
>neccessity for a GEV or Grav vehicle. Otherwise, you fully have to fire
up
>the engines to move the vehicle around the parking lot, in a repair
shop
>etc. Compare aircraft, espcially amphibians, or helicopters.

They're called service jacks and castors. Any 
truck repair shop will have large jack stands and 
castor plates that are used to move a chassis 
around that may have had it's wheel stations 
pulled. Not a big thing really.

Shop environments are a bit different than rough terrain wheels however.
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