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High Flying Power Trip

By William Pitts, KPNX News
August 20, 2012 Updated Aug 17, 2012 at 7:51 PM PDT

With hundreds of electrical towers to inspect, rather than drive to them and climb up each one, helicopters fly in and drop line inspectors on top of towers, which they then climb down, then repeat the process.

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