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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 21, 2012
Description:
Our good friend Tommy Crump has been ailing lately and is staying with his sister for a while. She lives on the river, right beside these power lines. The wires are up so high that she rarely notices them. But they give me the willies when I fly close to them. Tommy is a champion hang glider. Once he was flying by and got blown into a wire. He said he thought he was a goner for sure, but managed to free the kite and land safely.
Date Taken:
Sep 21, 2012
Place Taken:
James River, VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Sep 21,2012
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Matt noticed that a crew is working on the tower footings--without getting wet.
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Sep 22,2012
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Hard to tell in that pic, but it looks like there are balls on the wires.....but they don't seem to help much.
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Don Maxwell - Sep 22,2012
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Mark, there are about 8 balls on those wires--although the scale is such that they look pretty small when you're flying near them. You can even see them in maps.google.com at 37.309562, -77.095193. The tower being worked on is the southern one.<br /><br />The towers have strobes in the daytime and flashing red lights at night.
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Sep 22,2012
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That's interesting, I think that's the way to go. White strobes are the hardest things to focus on at night. I don't do much night flying, but I hate them. Very difficult to determine where the towers are with quick flashes.
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