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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 25, 2005
Description:
As summer turns to fall Darrell and I decided to circumnavigate Georgian Bay. This was to be a fitting celebration of the lives of our two friends, Doug Rogerson and Patrick Legg. The trip was to take seven hours including lunch and a few splashes.
Our early start got later as Darrell had a rudder cable hang up on his tail wheel assembly forcing a brief return to Shelburne. Here I see a horrifying picture of Don Quixote Darrell taking on the wind farm as he recycles his gear!
Date Taken:
Sep 25, 2005
Place Taken:
Shelburne, Ontario
Owner:
John Dunlop
File Name:
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1, John D''s Georgian Bay
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Ed Irizarry - Sep 26,2005
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John, great picture quality. I got a Pentax-good camera but has no immage stabilizing and lots of pictures come blurred. What camera are you using?
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John Robert Dunlop - Sep 26,2005
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Ed, it is the Canon Digital Rebel (300D) with an EF 28-135mm IS (image stabilized) lens. The major problem I have had is accidently changing the mode setting wheel moving the camera in and out of the camera bag when I'm shooting from the air!
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Frank A. Carr - Sep 27,2005
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John, I'm shopping for a zoom telephoto for my 300D; do you find that the 135mm is sufficent for most aerial shots? I was thinking it would have to be at least 200mm.
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John Robert Dunlop - Sep 27,2005
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Frank, remember that on the 300D a 135mm will give you a slightly narrower field of view than the 200mm on a 35mm camera. Longer lenses are harder to hold still in a SeaRey! I'm lucky to get some of the shots relatively sharp.<br />
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Bret Smith - Sep 27,2005
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John/Darrell whats the story here? That looks dang close. What were ya doin?
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John Robert Dunlop - Sep 27,2005
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I'll let Darrell answer this one Bret. I was too busy taking the photo!
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Roberta Hegy - Sep 27,2005
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Did ya wave at the guys in the aerial bucket?
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Charles Pickett - Sep 27,2005
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You all have toooooooo much time on your hands (I did not see them Roberta) I thought it was a cable or something on the plane doing the photo
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Sep 28,2005
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Can't stand heights, you wouldn't get me up there.
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Darrell Lynds - Sep 28,2005
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I had no idea John got this shot. I was busy recycling my gear whilst flying thru a forest of these things. About 10 or 15 of these big honkin wind power generators. We had just taken off in strong cross winds so I had a lot of rudder correction in when I retracted the gear. I think this contributed to one of the tail wheel cables snagging.<br /><br />The shot looks a lot more dramatic than it was. What really gets me is the guy in that gigantic 'cherry picker'. I would say these wind generators where 300 to 400 feet high. There is no way you'd catch me in one of those. But I suppose he was thinking the same about me. To each his own I guess.
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Robert Lee - Sep 28,2005
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That Cherry picker seems to avoid gravity. It just does not look possible. I would like to see that thing close up.
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Roberta Hegy - Sep 29,2005
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I used to test 100 footers for We Energies. This one looks scary.
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John Robert Dunlop - Sep 30,2005
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To give you the idea of scale, as they build the wind farm, huge trucks bring each blade through Shelburne where traffic immediately comes to a halt. We paced off one of the blades. It is over 120 feet long! I would guess that the cherry picker is around 250 feet.<br />
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Don Maxwell - Oct 01,2005
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John, are there lights on those blades? If it takes a 250' arm to reach the hub and the blades are 120' long, then the top of the disc is well up into SeaRey airspace.
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Oct 01,2005
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If it is on a decent hill it's probably near our 2 up ceiling!
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John Robert Dunlop - Oct 01,2005
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No lights yet Don. I drove through the construction area two weeks ago at night and it was pitch black. I don't know if they bother to illuminate the blades or just a high tower in the middle. What does the FAA require of wind farms in the States?<br /><br />Chris, the base of the windmills are around 1600 - 1700 msl.
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