High-tech Cranes Invade Airspace During PIT Construction


You know you’re operating a big construction crane when it requires clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration to rise to its full height.

Construction crews call it “Big Red”: a fire-engine-red behemoth weighing in at 760,000 pounds and extending up to 290 feet above the site of Pittsburgh International Airport’s Terminal Modernization Project.

Read more at Blue Sky News.

(Written in my role as Communications Manager for the Terminal Modernization Program at Pittsburgh International Airport.)