If you ever wondered how they get up there to fix those giant wind turbines, here’s the answer: Helicopters. And absofreakingnuttely crazylala mechanics. Updated with crazy video.
That’s an Eurocopter EC135, which is being used by Bond Air Services to do windmill farm maintenance in the United Kingdom. I’m sure they stop the windmill before going up–unless the stop mechanism is the thing that is broken–but looking a the scale of that little man going down, it’s quite scary anyway.
That’s an Eurocopter EC135, which is being used by Bond Air Services to do windmill farm maintenance in the United Kingdom. I’m sure they stop the windmill before going up–unless the stop mechanism is the thing that is broken–but looking a the scale of that little man going down, it’s quite scary anyway.And here I was, thinking they had elevators or really long stairs inside.
Update: As you can see in the crazy video, the reason is that these wind turbines are in the middle of the sea. [Flight Global--video thanks to Gitemsteve]
Steve in Australia
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 11:29 AMThat’s just like a real life version of the classic 80′s computer game, Choplifter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choplifter).
Russ
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 12:32 PMYep, you gotta have a big set of cast iron cahones to do that job.. My hats off to em!