A wireless telemetry system for monitoring operating conditions of a component of a combustion turbine engine having a compressor and a power turbine, the wireless telemetry system comprising: a sensor in connection with a compressor or turbine component; a telemetry transmitter circuit affixed to the component; an electrical connecting material on the component for routing electronic data signals from the sensor to the telemetry transmitter circuit, the electronic data signals indicative of a condition of the component; a resonant energy transfer system for powering the telemetry transmitter circuit including a primary coil that transmits an oscillating current signal and is affixed to an area of the turbine engine in spaced relation to a secondary coil comprising an electrically conductive material on the component in electrical communication with the telemetry transmitter circuit, wherein the secondary coil is in resonance at generally the same frequency as a transmitting frequency of the oscillating current signal; a first data antenna affixed to the component and in electrical communication with the telemetry transmitter circuit routing the electronic data signals indicative of the condition of the component from the telemetry transmitter circuit to the first data antenna; and, a second data antenna affixed to an area of the turbine engine proximate and in spaced relation to the first data antenna that receives the electronic data signals indicative of the condition of the component transmitted from the first data antenna, wherein the component is at least one rotating blade of a plurality of blades on a rotor disc in the compressor or power turbine and the blade having an airfoil portion across which expanding hot gas flows, and the turbine and compressor blades are disposed within a casing, characterised in that the primary coil is mounted to the casing proximate a tip of the airfoil portion of the rotating blade and the secondary coil comprises the electrically conductive material deposited on the airfoil portion. a sensor in connection with a compressor or turbine component; a telemetry transmitter circuit affixed to the component; an electrical connecting material on the component for routing electronic data signals from the sensor to the telemetry transmitter circuit, the electronic data signals indicative of a condition of the component; a resonant energy transfer system for powering the telemetry transmitter circuit including a primary coil that transmits an oscillating current signal and is affixed to an area of the turbine engine in spaced relation to a secondary coil comprising an electrically conductive material on the component in electrical communication with the telemetry transmitter circuit, wherein the secondary coil is in resonance at generally the same frequency as a transmitting frequency of the oscillating current signal; a first data antenna affixed to the component and in electrical communication with the telemetry transmitter circuit routing the electronic data signals indicative of the condition of the component from the telemetry transmitter circuit to the first data antenna; and, a second data antenna affixed to an area of the turbine engine proximate and in spaced relation to the first data antenna that receives the electronic data signals indicative of the condition of the component transmitted from the first data antenna, wherein the component is at least one rotating blade of a plurality of blades on a rotor disc in the compressor or power turbine and the blade having an airfoil portion across which expanding hot gas flows, and the turbine and compressor blades are disposed within a casing, characterised in that the primary coil is mounted to the casing proximate a tip of the airfoil portion of the rotating blade and the secondary coil comprises the electrically conductive material deposited on the airfoil portion.