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Traditionally, there would be a flypast of locally based aircraft at the air shows held at Lee-on-Solent, also known as HMS Daedulus.
These aircraft are Westland Wessex HU.5 of 781 squadron. Leading is XT487 in 'Green Parrot' livery and fitted out as a VIP transport. Also present are two Search and Rescue versions, XS523 coded '13' and XS496 coded '10', plus a second unidentified 'Green Parrot'.
This photo introduces 'Formation Friday' for the summer months.
Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire
21st July 1979
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19790721 13510 WessexXS523.10 XS496.11 XT487 leading 781 Lee clean
Ive been rather taken by the formations found along the coastline of Cardigan Bay around Aberystwyth.
Classic Formation
N431HM Douglas DC-3C
N223CM Beech D18S
N21FS Beech 3NM
Duxford
8.7.16
Flying their practice display for Flying Legends.
This flock of Pelicans were floating on some strong air currents in a near perfect 'V' formation. Shot near SBCC, Santa Barbara, CA.
A 2001 study by Weimerskirch et. al in the popular journal Nature measured heart rates as an estimate of energy expenditure in great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) trained to fly in 'V' formation, and showed that these birds save a significant amount of energy by flying in formation. This advantage is probably a principal reason for the evolution of flight formation in large birds that migrate in groups. (Do checkout my flickr comment below for more info)
Colorized the shot in CS3 for emphasis.
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Reenactment Day at Constitution Island along the Hudson River between West Point Military Academy and Cold Spring, NY
British Aerospace Hawk formation at Farnborough on 10th February 1994. The formation comprised mainly Hawk T.1s but also Mk.201s and Mk.102s. The total of 14 represented the number of customers of the Hawk at that point.
Garden of the Gods
Colorado Springs, Colorado
At the end of April my wife and I flew to Colorado. Our first stop was Manitou Springs and the Garden of the Gods To learn more about our visit and see more photos, check out my blog post Colorado's Manitou Springs and Garden of the Gods on my blog Batteredsuitcase.net
Near the visitor center at the Eastern entrance to Badlands National Park in South Dakota, the Brule Formation rises dramatically against the deep blue sky to the west.
high contrast for detail
Yakataga Formation (see www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/9562498955/)
Yakataga Formation (Holocene(?), Pleistocene, Pliocene, and Miocene)—Mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, and diamictite in a diverse marine and glacio-marine clastic continental shelf deposit. Abundant mega- and micro-fauna
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Fountain Formation. This unit of Pennsylvanian age is exposed along the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. it is composed of debris washed off the eastern isde of the Ancestral Rockies and deposited unconformably by torrential streams upon early Proterozoic metasediments about 300 million years ago. The Fountain Formation is an arkose, a sandstone and conglomerate with a high percentage of feldspar. The eastern-dipping Fountain Formation marks the western edge of the Denver Basin. The unit is exposed spectacularly at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs and in the famous, steeply dipping flatirons at Boulder, Colo., The Fountain Formation has a counterpart of the same age and composition on the western flank of the Front Range, The Red Cliff Formation was similarly formed by sediment eroded off the western side of the Ancestral Rockies. Red Rocks Park. Morrison, Jefferson Co., Colo.
This is the formation you see on the 12-mile Scenic Drive as you prepare to make the turn into Grand Wash Road. Grand Wash is a famous gorge that cuts its way through the upper portion of the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park. The wash connects the Scenic Road to Highway 24. The dry slot canyons in Capitol Reef (provided there are no flash floods) are an alternative to hiking Zion Narrows.
Capitol Reef got its name from a line of white domes and cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, each of which looks somewhat like the United States Capitol building, that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The Waterpocket Fold is a 100-mile long wrinkle in the earth's crust known as a monocline. It extends from nearby Thousand Lakes Mountain to the Colorado River (now Lake Powell). Capitol Reef National Park was established to protect this colorful and immense geologic feature.
This is one of the many unusual rock formations on the north edge of Antelope Island within the Great Salt Lake. Not sure how these structures were formed. This one got nicknamed "Skull Rock" by our group partly because it looks like a kind of skull. More importantly, however, a kid, not in our group, was climbing on this and fell. He hit his skull on a nearby rock and started bleeding. This the name, Skull Rock.
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