Hey my
helicopter fans. Check this out!
Erickson
Aircrane came to town while I was out.
This monster helicopter that looks like a dragonfly is a
Sikorsky
S-64 Skycrane.
It is a
beast as you can see. When nobody else
can lift the weight, these are the guys you call. The local wireless company is upgrading
remote towers in this area. This is what
it takes to do the work. We may get 4 or
3G!
Seeing
this brings back memories. Back in the
90’s when I worked in construction airlift, I worked alongside one of these
guys for a day. It was at a new auto
manufacturing plant in Tennessee or Kentucky…somewhere down there. The Skycrane carried these huge 20.000-pound
penthouses on various roofs of the plant.
As soon as they released their load and cleared the area our Sikorsky
S-58 round motor helicopter would set a small ventilation hood on top of the
penthouse. We did that all-day long. It
was fun watching the big spindly legged dragonfly nose it over and pick up
speed.
Stay
tuned. I’ll get more pictures of this
machine and post them!
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