Apache clips power lines
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I hear from a 'local' that Wherestead is close to a 'caravan park'......
They'd better get the airframe recovered pronto before someone nicks it and weighs in the aluminium
They'd better get the airframe recovered pronto before someone nicks it and weighs in the aluminium
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Can't see any damage to the main rotors, 2 separate tail rotors (!) or FCR from the photos. A bit left wing low is all...
Underwires crossing was not taught on CTR so can only assume that he drifted from a BP or bust his MSD over the pylons!!!
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Underwires crossing was not taught on CTR so can only assume that he drifted from a BP or bust his MSD over the pylons!!!
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re:it wasn't HRH was it?
Any rather large houses nearby containing some young filly likely to be impressed by someone showing off their chopper? Isn't there family history on that issue....?
Any rather large houses nearby containing some young filly likely to be impressed by someone showing off their chopper? Isn't there family history on that issue....?
Not as well as the pylons themselves and even they can be difficult to spot in poor light levels and precipitation.
Not sure if the apache crews are using NVG and the 'system' or just the 'system' which is IR and therefore susceptible to precipitation removing any thermal contrast.
The fact is that all the wires are marked on the maps that their FOB mandates they carry.
Not sure if the apache crews are using NVG and the 'system' or just the 'system' which is IR and therefore susceptible to precipitation removing any thermal contrast.
The fact is that all the wires are marked on the maps that their FOB mandates they carry.
What about GPS? Or is that too obvious?
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Seems a shame to write off those 5 main rotorblades and 7 tail rotorblades that were damaged in the incident and strike them from inventory. 
Seems a shame to write off those 5 main rotorblades and 7 tail rotorblades that were damaged in the incident and strike them from inventory. 
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From the number of customers affected this would have, in all probability, been an 11,000V or 6,600 volt line on wood poles, these will have been below 45ft in height.
As the wires are all below about 15mm in diameter and down to 5mm they don't show on NVG apparatus (we have trialled it to find faults at night).
The sheer amount of lines at these voltages would make it too big a task to put them all on GPS.
As an example the area I work in is about 1300 square kilometers, we have about 1700km of lines of these voltages
As the wires are all below about 15mm in diameter and down to 5mm they don't show on NVG apparatus (we have trialled it to find faults at night).
The sheer amount of lines at these voltages would make it too big a task to put them all on GPS.
As an example the area I work in is about 1300 square kilometers, we have about 1700km of lines of these voltages
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“Our engineers are currently on site and have established that a 132,000 volt overhead power line has been damaged.
The pylon behind the engineer in the video doesn't look much like a wooden pole either!!