ShaneMckay · 41-45, M
robingoodfellow · M
@ShaneMckay had to be crazy difficult
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Thing is a helicopter can always hover. It doesn't need to land.
Probably put one in only because someone had a medical emergency and couldn't climb the ladder to the helicopter.
No fun riding in one of those medical baskets. And no one to monitor them in transit.
Probably put one in only because someone had a medical emergency and couldn't climb the ladder to the helicopter.
No fun riding in one of those medical baskets. And no one to monitor them in transit.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@DeWayfarer A very impressive spot - I almost have vertigo looking at the photograph!
That pad was built in 1950, and would take a small helicopter landing or at least touching down; but only for maintenance visits. The lighthouse is not manned. It would hardly be luxurious anyway: the concrete hut, about ninety feet above the sea, is only a few metres square.
The lighthouse was built in 1938-9, commissioned in 1942, automated shortly after the War and provided with solar power in the 1990s.
I suppose there are very few manned lighthouses anywhere in the world now. Permanent crews working in rota systems were necessary in the days of paraffin pressure-lanterns surrounded by big Fresnel Lens assemblies for focussing the beams, and revolved by large clockwork motors; but the lights are all electric now so do not need attendants.
Those around the British Isles, and built on reefs or tiny islets, like the Eddystone and The Needles lights, have had helicopter pads built on top of the lantern. There were also a few lightships in British waters, also with permanent rota-crews, but these have all been replaced by large buoys with automatic electric lamps.
That pad was built in 1950, and would take a small helicopter landing or at least touching down; but only for maintenance visits. The lighthouse is not manned. It would hardly be luxurious anyway: the concrete hut, about ninety feet above the sea, is only a few metres square.
The lighthouse was built in 1938-9, commissioned in 1942, automated shortly after the War and provided with solar power in the 1990s.
I suppose there are very few manned lighthouses anywhere in the world now. Permanent crews working in rota systems were necessary in the days of paraffin pressure-lanterns surrounded by big Fresnel Lens assemblies for focussing the beams, and revolved by large clockwork motors; but the lights are all electric now so do not need attendants.
Those around the British Isles, and built on reefs or tiny islets, like the Eddystone and The Needles lights, have had helicopter pads built on top of the lantern. There were also a few lightships in British waters, also with permanent rota-crews, but these have all been replaced by large buoys with automatic electric lamps.
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BridgeOvertroubledWaters · 61-69, M
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