To allow personnel to fine tune engines between test runs within the test cell, access is provided by a scissor-lift work platform that raises workers to the height required to carry out modifications to the engine as it sits in the thrust stand safely and in the most ergonomically comfortable way.
When retracted, the lift’s mechanism is designed to fold down into a pit - leaving the surface of the platform flush with the floor of the building. Equipment weighing as much as 16 tones can travel across the platform when it is in the retracted position.