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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
A shot I took in Port Alsworth, AK that shows some of the major sources of transportation once you get off the main roads in Alaska.
The transport connection? You might not want to ride a feral horse, but this one is from the centre of a wheel hub from a Ford Mustang (it is 4.5cm nose to tail)
Macro Mondays - Transportation
I live in a small town, so my primary mode of transportation is walking. In fact, I often go for over a month without driving. I tried several different macro perspectives on one of my new walking shoes and this was the most interesting. This is a portion of the nylon mesh on the top of the shoe. HMM
Union Pacific DD35A No. 71 rests between assignments on the ready track in Provo, Utah the morning of May 15, 1977. The 5000 HP double diesel (still wearing its factory applied paint job and lettering) was built by EMD for the UP in April 1965 and retired in August 1981.
Macro of circuitry showing conductor lines, which resemble an overpass on a highway. Taken for the Macro Mondays theme of "Transportation" - these conductor lines transport electrons. In addition, the circuitry is key to the operation of modern vehicles.
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The Macro Mondays theme for this week is "Transportation". In the United States cigar lighters started appearing as standard equipment in automobiles in 1925-26. In 1928 the Connecticut Automotive Specialty Company in Bridgeport patented the first automotive cigar lighter with cord and reel. The modern "automatic" lighter -- the little cylinder that pops out when it gets hot -- was developed by Casco in 1956.
Basic edits in Lightroom. Opened in Photoshop, did Orton effect, curves, added an accented edges and glow filter, then opened in One1 and used a black and white preset, tweaked it, brought it back into Photoshop, dodged and burned a few areas, and then a few adjustments.