Missed opportunity..

[Tonystott]

I visited the Parkes radio telescope at the weekend (it played a part in relaying the moon landing. I had visions of flying the AP Trex up to a couple of hundred feet for a unique shot of this 190 foot dish.

Unfortunately, I should have realised that being a >radio< telescope, there is a total blackout of electronic equipment anywhere near it (even video cameras have to be switched off) What a bummer! I carried the heli and mast 300 miles each way but had to leave them in the RV.

As you can see, it would have been spectacular from the air....

(BTW, there is a nice movie called "The Dish" on its part in the moon landing)

[MarkWebber]

Tony

How selfish of them...they should have shut it down so you could get some pics! :D

[Tonystott]

Ah yes, I DID think of that, but when they shut it down, they park the dish horizontally, which looks crap. I even checked out the frequencies they were using (over 1024Mhz) but I guess they have to watch for harmonics, even from my radio frequency of 36.25Mhz...

During the Apollo moon landing, they even banned cars from coming closer than a mile away...sensitive Bs :)

[Greg McNair]

Would have been a cool shot. A tethered blimp or fullscale seems the only option.