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[SkiBachelor]

I just found this on google. Good thing no one was hurt and the summit express lift wasn't damaged.

http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar.../109170017&rs=2

[liftmechanic]

Interesting,
Thank God no one was hurt-I worked on an installation on the Honeycomb Lift at Solitude with that exact same ship. Here are a couple of photos, I'm the one on the ground with the wrench in the tower base.

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[Powdr]

I've had a disdain for helicopters since I saw one go down, killing Craig Badami after the World Cup races at PCMR. I will never fly in one again.

Powdr

[liftmech]

He had mechanical issues of some sort. Apparently he set down at the Aspen Airport (right there at Buttlermilk) and worked on the bird for a bit, then went back to flying. He augured in quite soon, within a couple minutes, so I'm guessing he couldn't fix the problem but thought he had. He said he just lost power in midair.
In spite of the cost, helicopters are still the most efficient way of building not only lifts but remote powerlines. Can you imagine dragging a tower to a remote location, standing it up, and then pouring the concrete around it? Or standing it up on bolts without damaging them?

[Bill]

Makes you think about how they did that before helicopters were used for putting up towers. Which they did put in towers before that. But they probably were then building roads around tower foundations and using cranes.

[vons]

over on the lift world web page they have construction picks in which a portible materials tramway is set up to place towers and move equipment to the top terminal. Most of the time they do this because the altitude and load is too much for a chopper like the building of a funitel but they do have pix of a Hsq being built with a temp tramway too.

to see the pix go to www.lift-world.info/content/english.html
then click on Knowladge & technology scroll to documentations :D

[Whistler]

I hate Hellicpoters, espescially the news ones, they fly so damn low and they hover there for a few minutes, there was one here a few weeks ago covering an accident that happened on the train tracks, and it was so noisy.

[edmontonguy]

Helicopters are efficient at what they do so that's why they've become more prevalent. Load lifting for lifts and suc but also they have something like a 98% arrest rate in pursuits with a chopper here in edmonton.