Winter Sunrise

Geico266

Geico266

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Took a quick trip to WI to attand a funeral. Launced about and hour before sunrise and this is what greeted me 1/2 way into the 2.5 hour flight. Gotta love sunrises in an airplane. :yes:

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Picture quality is poor, take with my phone, but kinda pretty. Gonna be my screen saver for a while.
 
I'm always hearing planes flying over when I'm waking up in the morning and think, "some bastard is having a more fun than me already".
 
wby0nder said:
I'm always hearing planes flying over when I'm waking up in the morning and think, "some bastard is having a more fun than me already".
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All you have to do is set the alarm clock. :lol:

I love watching the sunrise in an airplane. :yes:

What is really fun is go to 10,000' watch the sun rise, chop and drop and watch it again on the ground. :lol:
 
jpower said:
How well does this work? How fast do you have to come down?
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At 38 degrees latitude from 10,500' sunrise to a sea level sunrise your looking at approximately 9 minutes from my figures. So about 1,167 FPM. By descending at 2,000'/min, it should gives us time to get out to get a family pic. I think we will try that sometime.
 
Geico266 said:
Took a quick trip to WI to attand a funeral. Launced about and hour before sunrise and this is what greeted me 1/2 way into the 2.5 hour flight. Gotta love sunrises in an airplane. :yes:

Sunrise.jpg


Picture quality is poor, take with my phone, but kinda pretty. Gonna be my screen saver for a while.
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Seems kinda fitting and ironic at the same time... You are heading to a funeral and witness the birth of a new day...,

Nice Pic BTW..:yes:
 
when I take my girlfriend flying it's not for the solitude, it's for the privacy. :D
 
N801BH said:
Seems kinda fitting and ironic at the same time... You are heading to a funeral and witness the birth of a new day...,

Nice Pic BTW..:yes:
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A funeral should be a celebration of a life, and although there is mourning, the sunrise is fitting. Most funerals I've been to have been on beautiful, sunny days.

The one that I went to for which it was raining was my friend who was killed at Virginia Tech. God was crying that day, too.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
A funeral should be a celebration of a life, and although there is mourning, the sunrise is fitting. Most funerals I've been to have been on beautiful, sunny days.

The one that I went to for which it was raining was my friend who was killed at Virginia Tech. God was crying that day, too.
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I agree. After 101 combat missions in a P47, Bronze Star, 13 Air metals, shot down twice, raised 3 kids, self made muti-millionaire, ripe old age of 91, I'm "sad" he is gone, but glad I knew him. Capt. Ted Dobrick did alright for his country, his family, and himself.
 
Geico266 said:
I agree. After 101 combat missions in a P47, Bronze Star, 13 Air metals, shot down twice, raised 3 kids, self made muti-millionaire, ripe old age of 91, I'm "sad" he is gone, but glad I knew him. Capt. Ted Dobrick did alright for his country, his family, and himself.
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Cool.
 
That's a nice bit of photography, Geico. You might consider taking to the air on Friday to capture the end of the world. If for some reason earth was still intact, and I survived in the basement of the strip club with Sasha, Starfire and Charity and managed to repopulate the world within a 30 year period, you might have a very valuable photograph to sell. It could make you rich!
 
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