Accommodation ladder

A gangway [ ɡæŋweɪ ] is an access bridge or access stairs to climb or leave a ship or aircraft.

Shipping

Gangways are in shipping either firmly connected components of the ship and can be folded out of the ship or possibly pushed hydraulically or lowered from the deck or are they a separate, a bridge -like component. On old sailing ships of the handrail of the gangway was mostly an ornately decorated dew. A gangway is also called Stelling (lower panel ), shore (upper panel ), boarding ladder (folded in the picture above ) or called Passerelle.

Aviation

In aviation gangways ( passenger stairs ) are either type of construction, firmly connected components of the aircraft, which shifted out after opening the cab door side or from the rear of the aircraft, folded out, also be expanded, or they are part of the airport infrastructure.

In the latter case, it is mobile access stairs, which are mounted on chassis. The stairs are separated or pushed manually to the aircraft fuselage. More often, the gangway is used by tractors. Some walkways are firmly mounted on a motorized self -propelled gun. On almost all major airports today and closed gangways, so-called passenger boarding bridges are used, which is fixedly connected to the passenger terminal building, but are two - or three-dimensionally movable and can be moved up to the cabin doors of the aircraft so. The first closed gangway was introduced in 1959 by American Airlines in San Francisco. 1st class passengers used the so-called "Jet Airwalk " while the gangway of the second class was called " Jetway ".

Pictures

Very simple Gangwayfahrzeuge at Burgas Airport

Mobile Gangwayfahrzeuge with covered gangway

Airplane own side gangway

Own airplane gangway to the rear

Jetway