The aircraft carrier construction team at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding faced a key deadline in March 2022. The team was on the hook to move a block of the keel for the future Enterprise weighing hundreds of tons into the dry dock, Defense News reports.
Shipbuilders outfit these pieces, known as superlifts, in the final assembly platform on the pier, installing the piping and wiring into these massive Lego blocks and then crane-lifting them into place in the dry dock.
