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Overall walk-around of nozzle extension handling fixture.

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There are 8 black pads around the periphery of the handling fixture which actually support the nozzle extension; these would leave darker rectangular areas in the nozzle extension (e.g., in three of the walk-around photos of F-114-2 at Stafford Air & Space, three of the walk-around photos of F-6049 when it was displayed at the Udvar-Hazy Center, and several photos [one, two, three, four, five] of F-4023 being erected at Marshall).

The arms radiating from the top point of the fixture attach to the top of the nozzle extension.