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Today I did a training walk with Amber then drove to Tony's and he took me to Seven Sisters Country Park car park and we walked to the beach and back and then up the river to Charlton Bottom and onto the South Downs Way and back to the car. It was a really great day the weather was good and there was loads to see so lots of images of wildlife and some groynes.
Thanks to tons of feedback both here and on Classic-Space, I was inspired to change a few things about my old landing platform design:
- Central Elevator was replaced with 3 side elevators
- Each of the three 'wings' of the platform were elongated
- Hole in the middle was covered up
- The system of attaching the coloumns was completely re-done.
View on the photostream to see more in-detail shots. CnC welcomed, as always.
Difficult landing with strong crosswind of Japan Airlines - JAL Boeing 777-246/ER JA706J at London - Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)
UK - England, June 12, 2004
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Also called th Pripyat Riverboat. It's a half-sunk landing stage, that earlier stood in the riverside station.
A quick WIP shot of my latest project, and the most ambitious landing gear I've worked on so far.
Still fleshing out the overall length/shape/design of this, but it's obviously something that can fly!
Visiting the Azores means travelling. The 9 islands of the archipelago are relatively small and when you want to see more then one Island, you'll need to travel. Sometimes by an internal flight, sometimes by boat. Here you see the first glimpse of Faial, just before landing. Ilha do Faial, with the main 'city' Horta, is completely different from the more charming Ilha do Terceira. The nature on Faial is much wilder and the Island is dominated by the large volcano crater called Caldeira. On te West coast you'll see a large area with volcanic ashes (at Capelinhos) due to the volcanic eruptions in 1957 en 1958 and especially the East side of the island has suffered severely from earthqakes (the last one in 1998) of which the effects are still visible. Faial has approximately 15.000 inhabitants. More to come soon...
The Historic Cobblestone Landing in Memphis is one of the nation’s largest remaining, intact cobblestone landings. Built in the 1850s, it is located on Riverside Drive between Beale Street and Jefferson. The landing fueled commercial trade in Memphis until the opening of the Beale Street Landing. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 as "Memphis Landing."
Crash Landing
August is a good time to see the cicada killer wasp.
There were a number of the wasps flying around a sandy soil field with short grass here at Rondeau
One dropped her cicada, either missing the burrow or because it was tired from fighting a strong head wind.
She stung the cicada again to make sure it wasn’t going anywhere while she tried for lift off.
It had great difficulty getting airborne again and crashed head first with her heavy load several times.
Eventually it climbed the leg of a picnic table to get some height. It worked after three tries but it flew off in the direction it had come from.
Sphecius speciosus
Females dig nest burrows in well-drained soil, often forming large nesting aggregations, and provision nest cells with cicadas they capture and paralyze in nearby trees.
When the males appear in mid or late June, they usually display very aggressive behaviour that strikes fear into people’s hearts. However, as in other stinging wasps, males of the cicada killer do not have a stinger, and hence they are harmful.
source - various
A Spitfire landing on its home airfield after a sortie. Today it has a pilot that feels privileged to have flown it. 80 years ago the same aircraft probably had a pilot who was exhausted and grateful to be back in one piece. But they both loved the plane.
The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
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Phtograph taken at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands near Boynton Beach, Florida: July 30, 2010
Vehicle for Lunar Landing Research Facility at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. This craft was used for simulation of landing on the Moon.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: L-1963-09781
Date: May 5, 1963
Me landing my little aeroplane (Skyranger 912S with a camera mounted on the wing) at Causeway airfield in Northern Ireland. Not my best landing!