Helicopter hovering over electricity line
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Helicopter hovering over electricity line by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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Helicopter hovering over electricity line
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 4 Jun 2015
It remained there for at least 30 minutes. The black camera ball just under the nose of the craft indicates that this is a service helicopter. They fly along the wires and pause to film the wires and pylons. Occasionally one can see the service man or woman in their wire mesh suit touching a pole to the wire in order to neutralize the static electricity and then hop on the wire to carry out some maintenance work. For a wider view see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4508668.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.348695
Longitude
1.139119