Gantry

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Gantry can mean:

• Gantry crane is an alternate term for a Portainer crane
• The multistorey frame which encloses a rocket at its launch site, containing elevators and staircases that enable technicians to inspect, maintain, and adjust all parts of the vehicle, and for cabling and hoses to be attached to it and removed. If the rocket is a manned spacecraft, sometimes the crew also enters by way of the gantry. The gantry often rolls away or tilts away at or just before launch. Gantries in the West are painted red and white for aircraft safety; Soviet or Russian ones are painted military colors.
• gantry (road sign), a road enthusiast term for an overhead assembly on which signs are posted
• Elmer Gantry, a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Elmer Gantry, the 1960 film based on Lewis' novel

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