Anyone around Edgware Road, Tuesday 18/11 at 10am?

[Mobile Chicane]

My company has ordered a Super Puma to lift and shift a 3.5 ton piece of plant onto the roof of the Hilton Metropole Hotel.

Ops will commence between 10 and 11am.

Should be awesome to watch. Better not drop it, chaps.

[dvs_dave]

Cool. Will be on the lookout. Have a site visit lined up just round the corner in Paddington Basin.

[Mobile Chicane]

Postponed to Wednesday 19th due to operational reasons. Same time.

[Boatbuoy]

Mobile Chicane said:

Postponed to Wednesday 19th due to operational reasons. Same time.

Pilot lost the key?

[Mobile Chicane]

He'd better not have! However it's confirmed. All systems go for tomorrow.

[Chucklehead]

Balls. I've got meetings tomorrow. Please post pics!

[z4RRSchris99]

going to come have a butchers, sounds fun.

where's best to watch?

[Mobile Chicane]

The best viewing spot is possibly from Edgware Road itself.

Harbet Road will be closed to traffic since that's where the plant is being lifted from, and is the path the helicopter will fly across. Helicopter operations must include contingencies for catastrophic failures, hence public space underneath being closed.

There will be three parts to the lift, since the new plant is heavy:

1. Getting the old plant off
2. Shifting new plant A onto site from Harbet Road
3. Shifting new plant B onto site from Harbet Road

The space into which to winch the new plant has a tolerance of literally inches, so the 'copter should be hovering for a while. We're told it should take around an hour all in.

[Jazzy Jefferson]

Where's the chopper flying in from?
I'm in North London, wondering if we'll see it fly over?

[Mobile Chicane]

Just outside Croydon. You've missed it.

[Quattromaster]

How did it go OP, any pics.