Videos

How High Flying Linemen Keep Your Power On

Electricity is something we benefit from 24 hours a day, but give little thought how power companies like Entergy, maintain the lines. Entergy frequently uses helicopters to ferry linemen to the lines, or in this video change out old wooden cross arms to more reliable steel tubulars…

Air2 LLC Helicopter Safety Briefing

Helicopter safety and power line safety should never be taken for granted. On every Air2 jobsite throughout the USA, the day starts with a safety briefing. The safety briefing (also referred to as the tailboard meeting) is led by the foreman. ..

Lower Colorado River Authority Uses Air2 Helicopters for Transmission Line Maintenance

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) located in west Texas hired Air2, LLC to maintain their transmission lines in west Texas…

115kV Wooden Cross Arm Replacement

High voltage transmission lines with wooden arms that were approaching the end of their life needed to be replaced with steel arms.  Air2 provided the customer with a solution by engineering arms in sections that could be long-lined into place using the MD 500 helicopter…

Sharyland Uses Helicopters To Complete Transmission Line Construction

Power Line Services was the general contractor for transmission and infrastructure services as part of Sharyland’s Competitive Renewable Energy Zone (“CREZ”) initiative. The contract encompassed transmission line construction services for two segments of 345 KV transmission lines totaling…

Air2 Hot Washing Electrical Power Line Insulators

Contaminates on the insulators of an electrical power line can cause an electrical fault and must be periodically cleaned and maintained. An Air2 helicopter is used to haul 300 liters of purified water to the high voltage transmission line…

How are High Voltage Power Line Insulators Installed?

There are many methods used to install insulators on high voltage transmission lines. The slowest and least cost effective is by bucket truck. Air2, LLC uses helicopters to either install new insulators or replace existing insulators…