🎪 Move over, Cirque du Soleil! Chinese engineers just staged a gravity-defying spectacle in Shanghai, rotating two 10,000-tonne bridge beams like synchronized dancers above an operational maglev train line. Talk about high-stakes engineering! 🏗️⚡
The mega maneuver – likened to threading a needle at 400km/h – required millimeter-level precision as the 132.5-meter cement sections pivoted 60 degrees above trains zipping beneath. With only 3 meters of clearance in some areas, this was no ordinary construction project. One wrong move? Cue the billion-dollar do-over. 😬
But the crew nailed it in just 60 minutes flat! This aerial ballet marks China’s first successful large-scale bridge rotation over live maglev tracks, turbocharging progress on the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong railway network. Soon, commuters will zip between Pudong and Jiangsu Province faster than you can say ‘maglev magic.’ 🚄💨
