Air Force 100,000-ton forging press (unbuilt)

The U.S. Air Force was thinking about building a bigger forging press — I guess you're going to forge a whole aircraft all at once or something. The problem was you have to have a foundation to put this whole thing on. This one was cast in concrete. You took an elevator to the bottom — six stories to the bottom if you had to get down there. Somewhat greasy after about 30 years of grease falling down through here. But the Air Force was going to build a bigger one and they weren't going to pour a concrete foundation which might be 100 feet deep. They were going to use a mountain in Colorado — take the bigger press into a mountain. They ended up never building that one. But that was the plans back in the 1950s, to build an even bigger forging press.