Fiber Optics Helicopter

[kpinnc 12,017]

1 hour ago, oldlineman said:

Thank you, I will let him know, but right now contact with him is very limited as you already would know. He is starting 9th day haven't heard from him since he arrived on the 18th 2:00am and the 23rd for a short call, mostly used up with his girl friend though. Supposed to be trained as a medic, my dad was an Army Combat Medic in WWII , in Europe, went in D Day plus 3.

 

Yep. He'll probably get phone privileges soon. They'll keep him so busy that he probably won't have time to think, much less call. But he will be tougher when it's finished. Being a medic is awesome, and he'll have great civilian opportunity afterwards as well. 

 

Your dad and my grandpa were built tougher than anything that came after them. My grandpa served in the Caribbean theatre, AAC. Thank God for men like them!

 

And for your nephew as well! 

[wallfish 16,994]

On 4/25/2023 at 4:30 PM, oldlineman said:

Doesn't matter how high you go, once you get past about 30' or so the landing would be the same.

Yup, my thoughts were always the higher the better as the worst thing possible would be to survive and become a maimed vegetable eating through a straw.  I enjoyed climbing but then got too old too fast so it was only about 5-6 years doing it but it wasn't full time. Highest for me was 600' on an 800' tower. We did communication antennas all over the Northeast. Mostly microwave point to point dishes then some cell antennas. The views were amazing and once we had an eagle flying around below us for a while.

 

[Handy Don 12,216]

6 hours ago, wallfish said:

The views were amazing and once we had an eagle flying around below us for a while.

 

And here I was impressed enjoying dinner and an adult beverage in the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center and looking DOWN at the helicopters passing by (WAY back before 9/11).

[Lee1977 6,657]

 

 

I always was a climber, my mother said I would climb over the side baby bed at a very young age. Never got too high, but I was always on top of what ever it was. In the Navy Noats and I always volunteered to clean insulators on the long wire. antenna on work days. We would go up around 90 to 100 ft. plus another 25 ft. to the water. It just isn't any fun to climb something that's not moving. The ship was 40' wide and a lot of the time you could look down and see nothing but water the ship would behind you. We did that 5 or 6 times. I guess our replacements had to do it, no body else in the shop wanted to do it.