Boom Lifts

I don't work for the Army anymore, but I used to operate ARL's JLG 150HAX, a self propelled aerial platform capable of operation at up to 150 feet high or out to 70 feet over and 80 feet high. To the right is a picture taken from the maximum height of the boom. The base you see is a mere 18 feet square.
It is currently used to hold the UWB impulse SAR, which we use to search for targets obscured because they are buried, or hidden in foliage. There is not very much foliage in the picture to the left, since we happen to be in the Arizona desert testing the ground penetrating capabilites of our radar. We spent most of January 1996 in the Desert working on this radar.
My coworkers and I have learned how not to load the basket. It is a really strange feeling to have the rod of a hydraulic cylinder bend while it is holding 1000 pounds and $1,000,000 of electronics over your head.