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Marco Trailers to build 15 17 mobile beach safety units for the RNLI.
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institute has awarded Marco Trailers the contract to build fifteen seventeen Beach Safety units, to be deployed at various key locations around the country including Lyme Regis, Blackpool Sands, Tenby and Hemsby. The mobile RNLI lifeguard stations are currently undergoing design testing prior to confirmation of the specifications for the fleet, using a prototype. Each unit will look like a trailer during winter storage and on the way to their summer sites, with slightly wider than standard wheels the only clue to their destinations. Once on site the wheels will be removed and the specially designed 3.5 metre bodies lowered onto the beach.
The tight production schedule requires that most of the mobile units will be ready to be sited at the end of March / early April 2008.
Dec 2007
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Marco Trailers builds Ground Control Station for advanced research aircraft.
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Sussex-based trailer manufacturer provides vital component in high-tech trials.
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Following years of development, Boeing Phantom Works recently flew its advanced X-48B research aircraft for the first time at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California. News of the start of flight testing of this innovative aircraft, which was built to test the low-speed flying characteristics of the blended wing body concept, has reached Marco Trailers in Newhaven. Cranfield Aerospace commissioned Marco to design and build the unique, mobile Ground Command Station for the research program.
Commented Stuart Marsom, Sales Director of Marco: "We're accustomed to making standard trailers and bespoke units to meet all kinds of requirements. This work for Cranfield was certainly a bit different, however, and our design had to undergo stringent tests. We're naturally delighted to have played our part in the successful launch."
Aug 2007 PDF
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Blended wing bodied, low speed research vehicle
Photo courtesy of Boeing Phantom works
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The Boeing X-48B's future Command Trailer leaving Newhaven for Cranfield and beyond
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The rudiments of flight control being installed
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The Ground Control Station in Cranfield's hangar, ready for its electronics
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