One of the volunteers suggest a military airlift and it is decided that it can not hurt to ask. Back at the museum, Ken Carpenter begins the calls to Fort Carson Army Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Many calls up through the chain of command and things appear promising. The next question is how to make such an enormous jacket and free it from the ground with only the hand equipment we have been using. As the mining crew and machinery take over the hard work the museum crew turns to plastering the jacket.
Miners dig under and install beams and plasterers plaster everything in place.
In two weeks a job that we though would take months is suddenly finished and the army arrives to check out their mission, lifting a dinosaur. The morning of the lift, media crews from all over Colorado arrive and the hills are alive with TV cameras and the curious as the beat of the chopper blades is heard in the distance. As the big Chinook arrives staff and volunteers begin their prearranged assignments. Cables are attached to the waiting jacket while other volunteers and staff explain the proceedings to the media and visitors. At last all is ready and the pilot begins his job of sliding the six and one half ton body jacket out from under an overhang and then lifting it without banging into the narrow quarry walls.