On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:27 PM, John Francis wrote: > Another good place for crazy chopper guys is working for the power company. > Holding a bird steady, close enough that a guy sitting on the skids can > reach out and work on the power lines, with the rotors spinning with maybe > ten feet total vertically between 500KV lines? How crazy do you have to be?
I'm absolutely amazed that they'll fly OVER a bushfire to dump water on it. The updrafts, heat, smoke, ash etc must be terrible. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
