On 7/23/2010 2:53 PM, Rex Lint wrote:
> Let's say it WAS a vertical radiator. What's the danger?
>
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> Rex Lint
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John E. Cleeve
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower-climbing pictures
> ...
>
> I have also seen photograph of a light aircraft, where the pilot
> buried its nose into a high lattice structure some where in the USA, and the
> pilot climbed out and down the mast to safety, how fortunate for him it was
> a mast, and not a vertical radiator.
>
First time I ever heard of some one surviving a head on into a tower.
Even in a small trainer they are going to be doing better than 80 to 100
MPH. That's an awfully quick stop in a very short distance...unless it
was an ultralight. Even then I have a series of an ultralight hanging
off the roof of a shed and the pilot did not survive.
73
Roger (K8RI)
> 73, John, G3JVC.
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