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abstract black and white macro photography. That's what I think of...a front loading washing machine
Landing in San Diego is difficult. SAN is listed as one of the worlds 10 most extreme / difficult airports to land at (depending on which list you find).
You have to fly over this hill (Balboa Park), then get the plane down before you run into the next hill (Point Loma).or before you run off the end of the short runway. So the runway is in this sort of valley, and it can be VERY difficult for pilots at times. It is a very difficult approach because of the steep angle required over the hill. There are no jumbo jets regularly flying in here like at other major airports ie LAX, JFK, DFW.
I love flying aircraft, I love aviation, so therefore, I posted this video. It is really amazing and incredible to get this kind of footage of a plane landing in San Diego.
I previously wrote about how exactly I got this video including some of the difficulty involved. But I decided to be more discreet, to edit out that part, to leave you guessing.
You can imagine the 'powers that be' discourage a lot of looky-loo's from hanging around the approach end of runways.
I suppose a fascination with the machines of transportation has long been a human thing. I remember when I was a kid, I would take my younger brothers by bicycle to the local Hicksville train station to see the mighty train engines up close. That was a regular part of our Sunday routine. First stop was church, then afterwards to the train station, last stop was Baskin-Robins for ice cream.
Church and ice cream make sense. But the train station? Why did we go there? I remember so vividly for some reason the elevated platforms of the Hicksville train station. For some reason it was just an interesting place to hang around for a kid.
I'd say it's about fascination with the machines of transportation.
Trains and Planes. Big fancy machines that move people from point A to point B. But fascinating for some reason in how they do it.
So fascinating I suppose, that I even managed to make a career out of the business. And what form of human transport could be more fascinating that a flight in a hot air balloon? Going only where the wind carries you? No steering, just riding with the wind! What a concept.
So to tie it all together, landing a balloon is difficult, extreme, and fascinating. And it all started out because my father made me take my brothers to church, and for entertainment afterwards we would go check out the trains. Go figure. Like this could really all be tied together, but perhaps.
I did not really have a key point to make with all this. It is just a sort essay on my thoughts as to why I got this video of the plane landing. I hope someone reads this and enjoys it. Maybe I'll get my brothers / sister / mom to read this since they come here sometimes, they might appreciate the references to life growing up and the Hicksville train station
Die Zeche Nachtigall liegt am Eingang des idyllischen Muttentals in Witten. Hier nahm der Ruhrbergbau vor mehr als _I9A8103300 Jahren seinen Anfang. Zunächst trieb man waagerechte Stollen in den Berg, um an das „schwarze Gold“ zu gelangen, anschließend auch senkrechte Schächte.
The Nachtigall colliery is located at the entrance to the idyllic Muttental in Witten. Ruhr mining began here more than 300 years ago. First, horizontal tunnels were driven into the mountain to get to the “black gold”, and then vertical shafts.
This weekend I made a new cotton canvas cover for my trusty sewing machine and added an embroidered felt birdie to keep me company.
A typical timber train from Alavus is soon passing through Haapamäki with neat looking Dv12s. Class Dv12 diesel hydraulic locomotive number 2658 is leading the train and its appearance sparks attention due to its rough liver as the world down machine continues its duty.
Male Southern Hawker Dragonfly (Aeshna Cyanea).
The more time I've spent photographing these intriguing creatures this summer the more my affection has grown for them and vice versa it seems. This inquisitive fellah landed on my leg twice and then decided to land in my lens hood, literally in my lens hood! Sadly no pictures I'm afraid as his visits were far too brief but it did make me smile nonetheless.
I've got a quite a few more 'head on' shots of these guys in flight but I thought I'd show a different side to them today with a couple more images of them in flight also included below.
Thanks in advance for any comments or favourites you may wish to make & I hope you're not too bored of dragonflies!
Handheld macro, manual focus.
Bucyrus Erie, Model 2570 used for mining coal. The boom is 420 feet long. The maximum load is 800,000 pounds. The total working weight of this machine is about 16 million pounds. Sullivan County, Indiana.
Soundtrack: V.A.C. - "malfunction"
- somehow a "brother-in-spirit" of this one: though (oh well...) I am at least knee-deep into technology of all sorts and kinds, somehow I wonder how it actually works - man controlling machine? This device (an office-building-sized coal excavator) is just, well, sort of a "mountain of steel", making you feel awfully small, pondering what might happen if machines like these actually get out of hands...
The driver of BX 36-94 hops back on board after a quick stop at the shop, reminiscent of a scene from the late 1980s.
However, it’s actually early October 2024, during a ride expertly organized by Tamás and Tamás.
A huge thank you to the ÉMVJ team for providing the vehicle and driver for the day! And another big thank you to Flórián for creating a digital replica of the vintage license plate!
Mean Machine,a North American AT-16-ND Harvard IIB, in flight during an airshow in Västerås, Sweden.
♫ Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (*bg~)
♫ Santana - Let Me Inside (Mick)
♫ Drive My Car · The Beatles (Jose)
♫ Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine (Paco)
♫ Fred · Tony Williams (Christian)
♫ Chuck Berry - Route 66 (Paco)
Marketers will try anything to make their products look good. Here we have retro housewives selling large machines.
The Breguet BR 1150 ATLANTIC procedure trainer is an almost fully equipped training cell for the training of the tactical crews of the maritime reconnaissance aircraft.
The Breguet Atlantic, also known as the BR 1150, is a maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) that was developed multinationally.
The aircraft is used for patrol flights as well as for submarine hunting.
The Breguet Atlantic is the only aircraft in the world that was built exclusively for this range of tasks from the outset, while other maritime reconnaissance aircraft are usually developed on the basis of civilian aircraft.
The machines of the German Navy are now retired, but are still in operation in other countries.
In addition to the version for the MPA task, the Bundeswehr also had the BR 1150 M equipment variant for telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance.
Signals itelligence (SIGINT)
AERONAUTICUM - German Airship and Naval Aviation Museum Nordholz.
Der Verfahrenstrainer Breguet BR 1150 ATLANTIC nahezu vollständig ausgestattete Trainingszelle für die Schulung der taktischen Besatzungen der Seefernaufklärer.
Die Breguet Atlantic, auch BR 1150, ist ein Seefernaufklärer (Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) der multinational entwickelt wurde. Das Flugzeug wird für Patrouillenflüge sowie zur U-Jagd eingesetzt. Bei der Breguet Atlantic handelt es sich weltweit um das einzige Flugzeug, das von Anfang an ausschließlich für dieses Aufgabenspektrum gebaut wurde, während andere Seeaufklärer im Regelfall auf Basis ziviler Flugzeuge entwickelt werden. Die Maschinen der Deutschen Marine sind heute ausgemustert, werden aber in anderen Ländern noch weiter betrieben. Neben der Version für die MPA-Aufgabe gab es in der Bundeswehr noch die Ausrüstungsvariante BR 1150 M für Fernmelde und Elektronische Aufklärung.
Signals itelligence (SIGINT)
AERONAUTICUM - Deutsches Luftschiff und Marinefliegermuseum Nordholz.
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