Re: without wires?

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com> 

Hi Chris,

In the military, we used to key the radio a few times before hooking up
slingloads to helicopters.  It would drain the static charge off preventing
the hookup man from getting knocked on his butt.  Larger choppers need to
have ground rods used before hookup as the static can build very quickly.

David E Weiss

 >
 > Possible, I recall a nice TV show to where "the flying doctors" rescued
 > people without landing the chopper etc, though the problem was as soon as
 > the touched the ground they would get a massive electrical shock, they
often
 > ended up worse than the victims, it took them a long time to work out why,
 > now they have to drop a "ground wire" to the ground to discharge the
chopper
 > to ground so it didnt kill the doctor.
 >
 > Chris
 >
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