Service Deployment System

Overview Designed to seamlessly introduce additional services into a manufacturing and assembly facility. Features Designed to bring services such as electrical outlets, LED handheld work lamps and air hoses with multiple-sized twist-lock and quick-disconnect couplings and sockets via a series of heavy-duty reels, the service deployment system is installed in a facility’s ceiling and lowered […]

Three Axis Mast Lifts

Overview These eight robust, Three Axis Mast Lifts were custom engineered for an aerospace manufacturer to ergonomically position technicians during their upper wing panel sealing process. These units come as a set, one right-hand side and one left-hand side, which share upper and lower rails for horizontal motion. Four sets were built for this application. […]

Wind Tunnel Turn Tables

Overview A major wind tunnel engineering firm required two turntables for a wind tunnel they will place in a Texas University. Handling Specialty’s designs offered the project everything they’d asked for, including controls which allow the operator to customize the stop-position of the rotating top, set designated stops and run clockwise and counter-clockwise.

MGV Engine Transporter for Aerospace Industry

Overview Handling Specialty worked with an international aerospace company to engineer and manufacture an automatic guided vehicle (transporter) that would be used to transport aero engines in its facility. This equipment was designed with an air caster system to hold the load. The transporter is powered by an onboard battery system which is charged during […]

Custom Four Post Jet Engine Lift for Aerospace Industry

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Overview Handling Specialty was approached by a returning aerospace client to custom engineer, manufacture and install a jet engine dress bay lifting system for their jet engine test facility. The lift is used to lift and hold brand new 32,000 lb jet engines in preparation for being tested in a cold temperature facility. The lifting […]

Turbulence Control Structure Cart

Overview Our turbulence control structure cart supports a thirty-two-foot diameter spherical wind baffle from point A to B and then raises and lowers the unit so it can link up to the test engine. At 32,000 lbs, the turbulence control structure dome is a substantial piece of equipment, and Handling Specialty was asked to design […]