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Hi my name's Ed Mathieson. I'm
the Deputy Program Manager for Kay & Associates.

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About 6 months ago, we came out and inspected
the F-18, and found that we had a few anomalies

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with some bolts, and it was a decision made
by NASA to take it down for the safety of

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the general public, and redo everything and
make a new mount.

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What we did is we called in a 100-ton crane,

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because of the reach that
we had to do and the weight of the aircraft.

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We secure all the tag lines, get all the people
in place,

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we get hooked up, we hook up a sling,

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slowly and methodically lift it off of the
trailer.

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We take our time and run it up in

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the air and get it as close to the pole as
we can.

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Two people go up and we're able to

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get the bolts started in the pedestal.

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And
then, subsequently, re-torqued all the bolts

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to the proper torque that the engineers of
NASA came up with.

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That basically completed the project.