[BC] The KGO Towers

[PeterH5322@aol.com]

>Do you know if there was an FAA concern about the height, considering you 
>have to fly in over or near those towers when approaching SFO?

KPO used the "500 foot Rule" for its installation near SFO, and KCBS also 
used the 500 foot Rule, even thought KCBS is NOT a Class A, and it isn't, 
per se, entitled to invoke it.

KGO's towers are 90 degrees, and 300 feet.

Had KGO used the 500 foot Rule, its towers would be a more respectable 
148 degrees.

90 degrees for a Class A was a bad idea in 1947, and it is still a bad 
idea.

Besides, those towers were so slightly constructed, they could not 
survive the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

Didn't meet minimum conforming height, when built ... didn't meet 
reasonable seismic standards, either. Especially as the Hayward Fault 
was, likely, known to exist, then.