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Air Europe's Boeing B737-200 G-BMOR taxies out to the 08 hold before departing Gatwick back in April 1981
A decade later the Airline was no more
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
American men: Is your girlfriend, your wife, your daughter less human than you and undeserving of respect? Are they too ignorant to be allowed to make decisions about their own health care? Denying them their ability to think and act in their own best interests is NOT protecting them. It is cultural slavery.
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another digi, I am not able to get the compositions right these days, they seem so timid.
Hexham Bridge is a road bridge in Northumberland, England linking Hexham with the North Tyne valley. It lies north of the town of Hexham and is the main access to the A69 bypass.
The Tyne was crossed by two ferries called the east and the west boats. As a result of persistent agitation, a bridge was started in 1767 and completed in 1770. It was built by Mr Galt and consisted of seven arches. Less than a year later it was swept away in the great Tyne flood of 1771. In that flood, eight bridges shared the fate of Hexham. In 1774 a new attempt was made 46 metres to the west by Mr Wooler, an engineer who had been working on the new Newcastle bridge. Piles were sunk to carry the piers but work was abandoned on discovering that the "soil beneath the gravel was a quicksand with no more resistance than chaff". This first bridge, Hexham Old Bridge, was about 2 km upstream of the present bridge.
The authorities next approached John Smeaton, whose name as an engineer was famous. Henry Errington of Sandhoe was given the contract for the sum of £4,700, and work started in 1777. Although the half-completed piers were washed away the following year, work continued and the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1780. The Newcastle Chronicle, Saturday 8th July 1780 had "Saturday last, the passage along the New Bridge over Tyne at Hexham was opened, the Most Noble Errington was the first that passed it, who made a handsome present to the workmen." However, on 10 March 1782, there was a heavy fall of snow followed by a violent hurricane. The valleys of the north and south Tyne were inundated and the nine arches were completely overturned. They are still visible and act as a sort of weir. Robert Mylne, a famous architect and engineer, was called in to report on the feasibility of rebuilding Smeaton's bridge. He was eventually given the contract to build a fourth bridge, and the work was completed in 1793. It is listed as a Grade II* building by Historic England.
The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back?
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups still full of sand...
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Tale of the cockeyed T...
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1326 Main St.
Napa, CA.
the less time one finds to do it in :-)
Earl of Chesterfield
HBW!!
malus, flowering crabapple, 'Hopa', sarah p duke gardens, duke university. durham, north carolina
Explored ..
Sometime beauty is just a step away from you. Even when your naked eye can't see the beauty, a closer look reveals a diamond in the rough. This is a weed flower... as I was taking off weed from my yard and expressing frustration, I saw her and fell in love with her. (only to find out, she has already given her love to another weed ... Time to become the villain .. time to shop for Weed B Gone ... mwaaaa ... ..he he
MacroMonday, February 8: Vibrant Minimalism
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Saw a Tweet from Gosport Borough Council that the Millennium Bridge was going to be opened before lunch.
Decided to take a sequence as it opened.
Unfortunately it was only a test opening and there was no boat traffic. It took less than 15 min to raise and lower.
I hadn't appreciated that there was a counter weight that rolled down the curved struts on the left hand side.
I keep going through phases of what I am after in terms of style... One day I'm into tons of colors and effects, the next I'm into really limited colors with a stripped-down style. At the moment I am in a "less is more" mindset. I always like pieces best when they are sketches before all the glitter, smoke and mirrors. This chrome & black was supposed to be even simpler than it is, and more graphic looking than it ended up. I never intended to use any other colors besides chrome, black, and white, but the green in my bag kept nagging me. Only had a couple hours, so it doesn't have all the effects and tricks a "piece" normally does, but like I said, that's kind of the point.
*view all sizes on black*
Process shots: www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2011/07/06/geser-burne...
An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack aircraft. AEW&C units are also used to carry out aerial surveillance over ground and maritime targets, and frequently perform battle management command and control (BMC2). When used at altitude, the radar system on AEW&C aircraft allows the operators to detect, track and prioritize targets and identify friendly aircraft from hostile ones in real-time and from much farther away than ground-based radars.[1] Like ground-based radars, AEW&C systems can be detected and targeted by opposing forces, but due to aircraft mobility and extended sensor range, they are much less vulnerable to counter-attacks than ground systems.[2]
AEW&C aircraft are used for both defensive and offensive air operations, and serve air forces in the same role as what the combat information center is to naval warships, in addition to being a highly mobile and powerful radar platform. So useful and advantageous is it to have such aircraft operating at a high altitude, that some navies also operate AEW&C aircraft for their warships at sea, either coastal- or carrier-based and on both fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. In the case of the United States Navy, the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye AEW&C aircraft is assigned to its supercarriers to protect them and augment their onboard command information centers (CICs). The designation "airborne early warning" (AEW) was used for earlier similar aircraft used in the less-demanding radar picket role,[3] such as the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 and Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, and continues to be used by the RAF for its Sentry AEW1, while AEW&C (airborne early warning and control) emphasizes the command and control capabilities that may not be present on smaller or simpler radar picket aircraft. AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) is the name of the specific system installed in the American Boeing E-3 Sentry and Japanese Boeing E-767 AEW&C airframes, but is often used as a general synonym for AEW&C.[4][5]
General characteristics
Wellington Ic "Air Controlled Interception" showing rotating radar antenna
Modern AEW&C systems can detect aircraft from up to 400 km (220 nmi) away, well out of range of most surface-to-air missiles (SAM). One AEW&C aircraft flying at 9,000 m (30,000 ft) can cover an area of 312,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). Three such aircraft in overlapping orbits can cover the whole of Central Europe.[6] AEW&C system indicates close and far proximity range on threats and targets, help extend the range of their sensors, and make offensive aircraft harder to track by avoiding the need for them to keep their own radar active, which the enemy can detect. Systems also communicate with friendly aircraft, vectoring fighters towards hostile aircraft or any unidentified flying object (UFO).
Love taking photos like this, a solitary cloud peeping out from behind the modern, contemporary architecture of the new Showcase cinema in Southampton, UK.
This photo got to #252 in Explore on Monday, May 21, 2018
As temperatures drop in late autumn and winter, small mammals become less active. Less active prey make a lot less noise and are therefore much harder for Barn Owls to find and catch. Barn Owls are poorly insulated and need extra energy (food) during cold weather to make up for an increased loss of body heat. In winter then, food is generally harder to find at a time when Barn Owls need it most.