Lars Marcussen says:
This is an exceptional photo!
As Eddie is trying to catch the aurora with the shutter wide open in his camera, an unidentified aeroplane approaches KANGERLUSSUAQ AIRPORT for a landing.
The white stribe in the photo is the landing light of the aeroplane about 30 seconds BEFORE and UNTIL the tuchdown!
Lars Marcussen says:
I love these fat and indeed very noisy babies. They are beautiful. I lived quite close to the runway. I was often awakened around 5 o'clock in the morning, when 'the babies howled with their deep, deep voices'. They were warming up their engines prior to take off. They were bound for The Greenland Icecap, either to CAMP RAVEN, where they practiced landing procedures on snow- and iceconditions, or to THE SUMMIT CAMP transportating goods and personel or to NEEM, the danish drilling site.
A LC-130 Hercules Ski Bird from the 109th Airlift Wing, New york Air National Guard.
The New York Air National Guard operates these 3 wonderful LC-130 Hercules Ski Bird babies on behalf of The National Science Foundation, USA in the summertime of the northern hemisphere and in the summertime of the southern hemisphere 6 months later!
To anyone: Please correct me, if I am wrong!
Lars Marcussen says:
Only a very few persons in the whole world have the chance to take a photo like this! You either have to be a pilot, or you have to know a pilot!
I took a semilar photo from the height: "The Sugar Loaf", which is located almost from this position, but several hundred meters below!
This photo is SO much better!
Lars Marcussen says:
Dear Nunni Konn.
I lived here from april 1974 until end of june 1977. I was working as a radiotelegraphist on the coastalradio- and weatherstation: ANGMAGSSALIK RADIO, callsign OZL (OSCAR, ZULU, LIMA).
The main purpuse with our work was to sample all the Greenland weather information
from all of the Greenland weatherstations from
DUNDAS (Thule) in the north west via
DANMARKSHAVN in the north east
DANEBORG (The danish SIRIUS DOG SLEDGE PATROL UNIT and weather station!
MESTERSVIG the airport to the East Coast of Greenland in the late 19 hundreds!
KAP TOBIN a weatherstation near SCOREBYSOUND (ITTOQQORTOORMIIT).
APUTITEQ
ANGMAGSSALIK
TINGMIARMIUT VIA
KAP FARVEL.........................................................
.......by MORSECODE!
All other stations from the westcoast were sampled be telex since they were connected
by VHF-TELEX!
Please look at Arni Valur's photos below! It seems that his mother, who is from Iceland, has bought one of the buildings from the old
weatherstation KAP TOBIN!
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