Talk:Skylark launch tower

Link to Swedish space corporations picture page (press), includes picture of their launch facilities in Esrange.. http://www.rymdbolaget.se/?id=5459

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35tons Were they welded together or something?

Bailey is, of course, famously man-portable. Some sort of preassembled section might have weighed this much, but the usual “segment” of Bailey is a good deal lighter. Qwirkle (talk) 22:19, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

The text seems reasonable. Photographs on page 397 and 398 of (Peter Morton, Fire across the desert. Woomera and the Anglo-Australian joint project. 1946 - 1980. Department of Defence) show a large pyramid-like launch tower obviously constructed from Bailey bridge segments forming larger segments. Gdt (talk) 11:09, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

A "segment" of a Bailey bridge weighs less than a ton and can be carried into place by six men. It says so on the article here on the subject. If there was some other kind of segment that weighed 35 tons that needs making clear, because the way it reads, it's saying Bailey bridge segments weigh 35 tons, which is complete bollocks. If you can't find out the segment it's referring to, the sentence needs deleting. It either refers to Bailey segments, which is wrong, or it refers to some "segment" that it fails to mention, which is stupid and misleading.

84.70.170.48 (talk) 07:41, 1 August 2022 (UTC)