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High-voltage power line inspection (video)

John Livingston
December 13, 2014 · 1 min read

I don’t know what’s best about this video: the footage, or the narrator . . . .

This is from an IMAX documentary. It shows high-voltage power line inspectors at work. They fly close to the lines in a helicopter. They equalize potential as they approach. Then they climb on the power lines.

It’s just like the narrator says: bird on a wire.