2009-10 Photos - Deconstructing the Dome
Away with the Dome!
Let's start with this 6 December picture which was taken before things really got underway...it was also used
in the 2009 station Christmas card (FB).
 Ok, the main event, dome deconstruction. It has to start somewhere, here are panels being removed around the main entrance (FB). |
 More of the panels have around the bottom have been removed, and some FEMC folks are marking the dome demise with Jerry Marty's flag (see next picture) (DM). |
 Here is the FEMC group assembled on top of the dome just before the serious deconstruction began. This included the entire heavy carp crew, the crane operator, and Leah Street, SPSM project manager. Wow (FB). | |
 More panel removal around the top section, which would be lifted off in one piece (FB)... |
 ...like so. Here goes the top rings off the dome... this happened around 4 or 5 AM Friday 18 December SP time. Originally the Seabee Museum wanted the next ring also, and they may yet get the pieces, but that section was too big and heavy for a one-crane lift (FB/APL). |
 A closeup inset from the previous picture (FB). |
 Here is another more wide-angle view. (JS). |
 Another shot from a slightly different angle. This piece looks too big to fit in a Herc, maybe the traverse will take it north (FB). |
 Lowering the top section to the surface...note the shadow (FB). |
 Lowering it to the ground (FB). |
 A wider angle view (JS). |
 A view from inside the dome (FB). |
 Here is what it looked like from the inside after the top section had been removed (RD). |
 18 December, the dome continues to disappear slowly (EG). |
 22 December, a bit more is gone (EG). |