A friend sent me the following image, spotted at an UK airport. Do you have any idea what that might be?
It looks a bit like MD-11/DC-10 transport case, but i have no idea. Is something like this used to transport airplanes?
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1related, if not duplicate: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/q/26968/1467 – Federico Aug 11 '17 at 10:38
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That's a training rig for airport fire crews. They can usually be set on fire through whatever controlled means and the crews can practice approaching and working around aircraft.
In fact, after a cursory Google it's either the one at Heathrow or is near identical to it.
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Maybe Heathrow has one as well, but it looks like the one at Stansted too - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Stansted+Airport,+Stansted+CM24+1RW/@51.8873242,0.2326068,162m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d88e5e1bd094c3:0x1438d71a4733b651!8m2!3d51.8899385!4d0.2617407 – Andrew Wilkinson Aug 11 '17 at 10:24
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More views of a fire simulator can be found on Heathrow's photo library: fire simulator. – Andrew Morton Aug 11 '17 at 12:13
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That will be a fire trainer, for the airport fire fighters to practise procedures for different types of fire and smoke events. Here's the one at Amsterdam Airport:
Some of the fire trainers, if not most, have a replicated interior as well so that procedures can be trained for going into the plane, in realistic heat and smoke circumstances.
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This is a dummy aircraft used for training firefighters. I believe that it's coloured green so that random observers don't think that it's a true emergency.
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