Under the watchful eye of tourists and onlookers, a helicopter raised the new antenna to the top of the “Iron Lady,” where a technician was waiting to fix it. The operation took a total of 15 minutes, after three hours of delay due to bad weather, AFP found.
“It is a great pride,” Jean-François Martins, the president of the management company SETE, told the press, for whom the unprecedented operation by helicopter is part of the history of the Eiffel Tower: “a place of technological and scientific experimentation “.
The monument, the most representative of Paris, was built by the architect Gustave Eiffel for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and it was precisely its function as a radio transmitter, initially for military purposes, which saved it from being dismantled.
The operation, prepared “for more than a year”, cost one million euros (1.1 million dollars) and the new antenna, which allows the entire Paris region to access digital terrestrial radio, weighs 350 kilos, according to Arnaud Lucaussy, from the broadcast operator TDF.
The installation of the antenna takes place in the middle of painting work on this symbol of Paris, which will regain a more golden appearance for the 2024 Olympic Games in the “City of Love”.
Source: Ambito
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