Flying over Cooling Towers

Well, here's a couple of cool little films. The first is taken by an FPV (First Person View – that's a remote controlled plane steered by a video link) and shows a flight over the five deserted cooling towers of Willington Power Station in Derbyshire, built in the 50s and derelict for some few years now. This is best listened with the sound off due to the awful soundtrack.



The second film is take up close to the cooling towers, after the enterprising cameraman snuck into the site and took a series of gorgeous photos and video images of them, and edited them together rather beautifully, this time to a rather less offensive Depeche Mode track. Cooling towers are such dramatic, curvy, beautiful things, like primitive pottery blown up to enormous size. I have great affection for them, much in the same way that gasometers and pylons never fail to stir the soul.