Rock formation off of route 620 Rockingham County Va

World War II Weekend " A Gathering of Warbirds"

May 2014 - Reading, Pa.

The highlight of my day! It was Trooping the Colour in Central London today, & I live under the flightpath for any flypasts over Buckingham Palace. I watched all the planes from my garden, starting with World War 2 planes (which were early so circled several times before taking the correct route), followed by modern military planes. The Red Arrows were the finale of a wonderful display.

F-15 flyover Gerald Ford burial.

Three Stearman biplanes and a Ryan fly in formation during the 2011 Cable Airshow.

view the video at vimeo.com/21577774 more details at www.syntfarm.org/projects/formations

Formation of 4 x French Navy Rafale M seen in the Bastille Day Flypast over Paris, 14th July 2018

Opération menée avec le Rectorat de l'Académie de Toulouse pour former des lycéens en bac pro TFCA (technicien du froid et du conditionnement de l’air) pour livetweeter des conférences scientifiques de Futurapolis.

Cave formations in the Hato Cave

This rather odd cloud formation caught my eye while I was driving out of Kooralbyn. I didn't have my Nikon with me, so I got the little Canon Powershot out - still takes a rather good photo!

The Victors are friends of the Air to Air Academy, and came to be photographed over three days.

www.ericcoeckelberghs.com/index.php?page=photoflying

Mosquito in the front.

While running missions in St. Martial with Drakon' and Mirror, Brand stumbled upon this formation of Freaks.

Formation of Avro Lancaster B1 PA474 of the BBMF , Messerschmitt 109 G-USTV and Hispano Buchon D-FEHD seen at North Weald

Dad follows Son around Luffield.

Stingrays

Snow geese at Bosque del Apache

Socorro New Mexico

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I don't think these have names, they just took my eye.

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A walk up and along the Roaches ridge in the NE Staffs part of the Peaks. This is where Joe Brown and Don Whillans learned to climb in the 1950's

Formation is the usual sight.

"The rocks in these odd formations were born of fire and water. The dark-colored schist was originally sand, silt and clay at the bottom of a long departed sea. Molten magma from deep within the earth invaded the schist and gradually cooled into the lighter-colored granite. Mushroom shapes were formed when the granite stems eroded quicker than the schist caps." -trail sign RMNP

Delicate Arch, Arches NP, Utah, USA

Count to 5 and brace for the Echelon Formation Break!

WE Equipe Nationale Formation, Décembre 2013, Le Breuil

Took a side trail to find this formation of columnar basalt. From Wikipedia: "During the cooling of a thick lava flow, contractional joints or fractures form. If a flow cools relatively rapidly, significant contraction forces build up. While a flow can shrink in the vertical dimension without fracturing, it can't easily accommodate shrinking in the horizontal direction unless cracks form; the extensive fracture network that develops results in the formation of columns. The topology of the lateral shapes of these columns can broadly be classed as a random cellular network. These structures are predominantly hexagonal in cross-section, but polygons with three to twelve or more sides can be observed."

Unexpected (by me at least) air display over Panshanger Aerodrome in Hertfordshire