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Originally Posted by franktko
As someone already suggested before, it seems like those guy wires on the mast are not necessary - since the entire thing is up now. Maybe they were just needed if the radome would have been installed?
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Yes, that is rare. The radome would certainly give more wind resistance, maybe they recalculate it when they decided not to add the radome and it turned out that it was no longer neccesary.
It also could be that it is only neccesary in case of very strong, hurricane-type kind of wind, that are not expected yet, so they will begin to add the guy wires in the next weeks. The time will tell.
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Originally Posted by franktko
I don't expect the beacon to be turned on randomly any time soon. I'm sure they'll want to make another event out of this in a few weeks and bring back the building in the press... again.
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I think the same. I do think they will do a ceremony for this, with Obama pressing the switch either in New York itself or from the White House (as they did when they inaugurated the ESB and the president Herbert Hoover turned on its lights from Washington)
My guess is next september 11th (or the night before) It may look like a long time, but I don't think it depends on when the light is operative, that could happen next week. If they do a Ceremony to light up the beacon, as I think they will do, they are likely to choose a significative date, and there is no one more significative than september 11th for that matter. And another thing to considerate, I don't think they'd do a big ceremony for turning on the beacon, with the two cranes up there. Until september 11th, they have enough time to dismantle the cranes and finish the cladding, so the tower will look finished from the oustside.
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Originally Posted by NYC4Life
Amazing view of the lift from a GoPro camera - Port Authority NY/NJ Video:
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Amazing video, thanks for posting. BTW It is cool to look at in video, but I don't think that I could be up there in that tiny tiny platform
Some captures of it
Half way up
All the way up
Almost there
In place!