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Loudoun Planning Commission backs AT&T’s data center plans for Short Hill Mountain
Loudoun Planning Commission backs AT&’s data center plans for Short Hill Mountain
Friday, May. 6, 2016 by Times-Mirror Staff
Short Hill Mountain emerges from the Piedmont countryside as a low-lying ridge northwest of Purcellville that rises above the valley until it drops precipitously into the Potomac. From a point overlooking what is known as the “viewshed,” a communications icon seeks to build a facility that would be visible from the Appalachian Trail and a part of the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship that is planned for a state park.
AT&T has won the approval of county planners to build a data center on 3.5 acres at the top of Short Hill on the ridge between Hillsboro and Lovettsville. But now, residents down the mountain from the viewshed seek to block what they view as an unsightly project that changes the nature of the landscape.
“This facility stands in direct contrast to the consciousness of the neighbors of the site,” writes Daniel Fidick of Lovettsville, a data center architect who has organized citizens’ opposition to the project.
Friday, May. 6, 2016 by Times-Mirror Staff
Short Hill Mountain emerges from the Piedmont countryside as a low-lying ridge northwest of Purcellville that rises above the valley until it drops precipitously into the Potomac. From a point overlooking what is known as the “viewshed,” a communications icon seeks to build a facility that would be visible from the Appalachian Trail and a part of the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship that is planned for a state park.
AT&T has won the approval of county planners to build a data center on 3.5 acres at the top of Short Hill on the ridge between Hillsboro and Lovettsville. But now, residents down the mountain from the viewshed seek to block what they view as an unsightly project that changes the nature of the landscape.
“This facility stands in direct contrast to the consciousness of the neighbors of the site,” writes Daniel Fidick of Lovettsville, a data center architect who has organized citizens’ opposition to the project.
What's so special about this?
If this is where I think it is, what's so special about this is that this is the site of an airplane crash. It was the first airplane crash investigated by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Lovettsville air disaster
The Lovettsville air disaster occurred on August 31, 1940 near Lovettsville, Virginia. Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 was a new Douglas DC-3A that was flying through an intense thunderstorm at 6,000 feet (1,800 m). Numerous witnesses reported seeing a large flash of lightning shortly before it nosed over and plunged to earth in an alfalfa field. With limited accident investigation tools at the time, it was at first believed that the most likely cause was the plane flying into windshear, but the Civil Aeronautics Board report concluded that the probable cause was a lightning strike. U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota was one of those killed.[3][4]
"Trip 19", as it was designated, was under the command of Captain Lowell V. Scroggins with First Officer J. Paul Moore. The pilot and copilot had over eleven thousand and six thousand hours experience respectively, although only a few hundred were on DC-3s. In the jump seat rode a new administrative employee of the airline, hired on August 26.[1]
The DC-3A was newly delivered from the Douglas Aircraft on May 25, 1940 equipped with twin Curtiss-Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines (also designated as G-102-A).
The CAB investigation of the accident was the first major investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
The Lovettsville air disaster occurred on August 31, 1940 near Lovettsville, Virginia. Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 was a new Douglas DC-3A that was flying through an intense thunderstorm at 6,000 feet (1,800 m). Numerous witnesses reported seeing a large flash of lightning shortly before it nosed over and plunged to earth in an alfalfa field. With limited accident investigation tools at the time, it was at first believed that the most likely cause was the plane flying into windshear, but the Civil Aeronautics Board report concluded that the probable cause was a lightning strike. U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota was one of those killed.[3][4]
"Trip 19", as it was designated, was under the command of Captain Lowell V. Scroggins with First Officer J. Paul Moore. The pilot and copilot had over eleven thousand and six thousand hours experience respectively, although only a few hundred were on DC-3s. In the jump seat rode a new administrative employee of the airline, hired on August 26.[1]
The DC-3A was newly delivered from the Douglas Aircraft on May 25, 1940 equipped with twin Curtiss-Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines (also designated as G-102-A).
The CAB investigation of the accident was the first major investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
Report of the Civil Aeronautics Board
