(CNN) — Airport gates are usually the last point of solid ground that fliers experience before taking to the skies, but at one US airport this month, a remarkable engineering feat saw several gates embark on their own incredible journey.
In what’s believed to be an aviation industry first, four newly built gates — boxy rooms made of concrete, glass and steel — could be seen crawling in the middle of the night across the tarmac at Texas’ Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the second busiest airport in the United States, before being installed in their new home at Terminal C.
The almost inconceivable achievement was completed late last Thursday night and into the following morning, when the final gate — built remotely on airport land for its Terminal C — was carried via a high-tech, flatbed truck across one runway and hooked up to the terminal for use by American Airlines at their primary hub.
Three other new gates were moved the same way from August 26 through September…