{"id":2755,"date":"2014-06-30T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T22:10:26","slug":"bringelly-antenna-circa-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/bringelly-antenna-circa-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Antenna Tragedy (circa 1963)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham Watts posted in ex-OTC<\/a>\u00a0Facebook web site<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Chopper<\/a><\/p>\n

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I think I took this shot sometime in 1963 at Bringelly while on field training. A helicopter was being used to assist in the erection of some 200 foot masts.<\/p>\n

I seem to remember later that there was an accident when a rigger was killed and the helicopter crashed but have been unable to find any record of the event.<\/p>\n

Can anyone help with info?<\/p>\n

Graham Watts<\/p>\n

grahamw@arach.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Antenna<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The photo here shows the the testing in progress L>R Roy Hunt, Roger Pugsley and Charlie Rudd.<\/p>\n

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\"Antenna<\/a><\/p>\n

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Graham Watts posted in ex-OTC\u00a0Facebook web site \u00a0                                                 I think I took this shot sometime in 1963 at Bringelly while on field training. A helicopter was being used to assist in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bringelly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-Ir","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}