Daily Pic

rwellner98 said:
I'm floating in the restricted zone waiting for the coast guard to pick me up. Sending this via my InReach. Couldn't get the starlink to float well enough to maintain a signal.
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Do you have your fishing tackle with you? How about a piece on preparing raw fish:goofy:
 
Night currency is hard to keep during the summer since I'm usually not flying at 10pm, so I let it lapse. And that gave me a good excuse to go for a sunset/night flight 2x this week!
(Also relearned the importance of checking your flashlight batteries BEFORE you take off; mine were weak and died in flight...)

Landing video (GoPro): https://gopro.com/v/rD93dDEbNeo42

When I turned on course I felt like I was flying into an A-Bomb blast from the sun.
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Final for RWY 10 at DPA. Night landings are my absolute favorite.
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Second night taking the plane out. Unfortunately all my photos from the second night are too dark because I accidentally left the sun filter on the gopro :(
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I need to get up there... Have driven up, but not flown it yet.

Wind related, but not a plane. Took this a couple of weeks ago when visiting Boston. USS Constitution, from the harbor side. To me, a positive reminder that while we're far from perfect, people have been screwing around with us for a long time, and we've always managed to figure out some sort of way to deal with it.

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Everything is so nice and green at the high elevation in Arizona. This is AZ82 airpark
 

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We got 4 adults all rounded up in a Mooney, and had a very good flight out to Madison, WI and back. Ramp was hopping with the college football game in town. Myself, happy I could show my in-laws a little bit of this little bit of good fortune, this time machine, to go to some other city and expand our horizons in people and places.

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a peek over soon-to-be-fall countryside, NE WI.
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Saw this exec jet on the ramp with Gogo 2Ku ... and my guess is retired Virgin America...
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Wow, pretty... VFR on top is pretty cool...
<spends the next 30 minutes checking the weather every 10 seconds to verify that I'm not going to be stuck on top...>
 
UngaWunga said:
Lakehurst... are these blimp hangers?

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Yes they are.

Now look above the blimp hangers, there is a circular pad of some sort. Helo practice pad? now slightly above the circular and also to its left: there are five pads with paved paths to a single pad. Looks like a landing area for Scottish Bagpipes. Kidding aside, what is this?

-Skip
 
Skip Miller said:
Yes they are.

Now look above the blimp hangers, there is a circular pad of some sort. Helo practice pad? now slightly above the circular and also to its left: there are five pads with paved paths to a single pad. Looks like a landing area for Scottish Bagpipes. Kidding aside, what is this?

-Skip
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Looks very similar to a shotgun five-stand layout. I can't image the recoil that shotgun has!:yikes:
 

I know, I know, this is the daily PIC thread. well actually this is like 30 pics per second, times 9 seconds, so that's what, like 400 pics or something.
 
eman1200 said:
I said "or something", sheesh
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You did, and I'd say you were in the ballpark of numbers with three digits. But providing a qualifier while acceptable in many places, holds little meritorious value on POA.
 
UngaWunga said:
Lakehurst... are these blimp hangers?

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I used to work at Lakehurst. That's hangars 5 & 6, yes, blimp hangars. Out of the picture at the bottom are hangars 1, 2, & 3. Hangar 1 is the monster, I've seen a photo of the Hindenburg in it with two smaller airships alongside it.

You can just see the old airfield at the bottom of the image; the paved area to the right is where the Hindenburg crashed. The five steps are indeed catapults; used for ground testing. While I was there we all got to watch a F-18 shot into the nylon webbing emergency barricade.

Here's the same thing from lower and farther (5 miles) away, you can see the other hangars.

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This is at least the second time they have stored new pickup trucks at this closed speedway. I was here a few weeks ago and the place was empty, not tonight. To me that is a amazing amount of new trucks. What color paint do you think they buy the most of?
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