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From: jim@oswald.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: Re: Microwave power beaming  (and airplanes).
Message-ID: <198@oswald.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 22:46:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  2 22:46:06 1987
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In article <892@apple.UUCP> ems@apple.UUCP (Mike Smith) writes:
>I fly a glider.  It is metal tubing covered with cloth and paint.  There is
>a plexiglass bubble above me ...  Please paint the power receiving station
>in a skull and cross bones pattern with black and red paint.  And don't
>try to radio me, many gliders don't have radios or an electical system...

But hopefully they do carry aeronautical charts which depict the various
Restricted Areas and Prohibited Areas.  Encroaching on these areas is illegal
and dangerous (you stand a significant risk of being shot at).  There are
many such areas now; a power receiving station would just be one more.
-- 
Jim Olsen  ...!{decvax,lll-crg,mit-eddie,seismo}!ll-xn!oswald!jim