Crazy electricity camera on telly

rocker · Mar 23, 2010

Watching something mad on telly with Hammond off Top Gear in - these fellas have clipped an HV cable to their helicopter - filmed with a special camera you can see the corona effect of the electricity on the chopper's blades/tail etc, it's amazing!

Then the guy SITS ON THE HV CABLE crazy! I know physics keeps him safe but still, dunno if I'd be happy to sit on a cable and work on it. Can see the electricity all round him it's mad! Whoa!

UNG · Mar 23, 2010

They did a whole programme series a while ago on toughest / dangerous jobs

On one they had American linesmen working off helicopters swapping out line separators and insulators while charged up to the line voltage.
Thought the really risky bit was pressure washing insulators with the power on that seemed really mad to me

Notsosmart · Mar 23, 2010

Yeh watching it now, scary stuff,

one slip ~ Your dead
twitchy pilots finger ~ your dead
too much corona creating carbonisation along the insulators ~ your dead
drop a tool ~ oh well tea break

Imagine the puckering on your first day!

gaffer · Mar 23, 2010

What channel was it on? Theres always BBC iplayer.

SirKit Breaker · Mar 24, 2010

What I would like to know is who the hell tried all these things out first.

Bromd123 · Mar 24, 2010

Just watched the richard hammond show HOW AMAZING, thank god my mrs sky+ed it for me lol

Phil · Mar 26, 2010

i would be twitchy enough in a heli without the hv

gaffer · Mar 26, 2010

Just watched it on the iplayer,not a job I would want to do.In a helicopter wearing a faraday suit then climbing on to HV lines.Nuts.

Spudnik · Mar 26, 2010

Not sure if its the same one but:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA]YouTube - High Voltage Cable Inspection[/ame]

Gotta love the closing statement

And another:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfnYuANLh5k&feature=related[/ame]