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3/4/21: USF BSB at Stanford at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond in Palo Alto, CA. Image by Chris M. Leung for USF Dons Baseball
A KC-135 in air refuel jet, Ellsworth Air Force Base S.D., 23 February 2007, performs transition work by testing its navigational aids here at Ellsworth. The in air refueler is testing here due to bad weather in Grand Forks N.D. where the KC-135 is from. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Anthony Sanchelli) (Photos Photo cleared by 28th BW / PA)
iMAL, Brussels, March 2015 After the performance based on an almost true story., presented at the Trouble festival and at iMAL beginning 2014, Lucille Calmel and Gaëtan Rusquet will present the second season of based on an almost true story. and the cat-cinema.
I can type a whole story about some strange weather that day and no mobilephone connection around this lost Russian (sorry...Soviet) millitary base, but I keep it short:
Most interesting place I've ever visited in and around Berlin/Brandenburg!!!
Totally lost it...
Before I forget to mention it: next to a millitary base, it was also a complete Soviet village and (most of all) a top secret nuclear missile storage facility and launching site.
Maybe that's the reason my GPS went completely bezerk that day...
For those who are interested, some info in:
English: www.abandonedberlin.com/2014/11/vogelsang-soviet-military...
Dutch:
Map (keep in mind to download that map at home > there's almost no internet connection and what I already said...my GPS went crazy...):
www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zwmJXBmBSRVA.kIWIEkCsj_L...
KEEP IN MIND:
- Bring some food/drinks with you, there's no späti nearby
- It's easier to bike to and around the base
- This former Soviet ground is HUGE!
U.S. Air Force Major Ryan Madrid talks to local career specialists from Midlands-area school districts about the F-16 Fighting Falcon during a base tour, Jan. 31, 2019. The career specialists toured McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., through a program hosted by the Midlands Education Business Alliance to learn more about the mission of the South Carolina National Guard and future opportunities for their students in the National Guard, Jan. 31, 2019. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Capt. Stephen D. Hudson)
The Austral summer begins to draw to a close. Temperatures fall enough for the sea to begin to freeze. The relief ships make their final pass of the Antarctic Peninsula bases before heading back home
Those left on base settle down after the summer's frenetic activity in sometimes cramped accommodation. A new liner is fitted to the water tank, the weather is miserable and manky. As the ice in the bay begins to thicken, the annual thin-ice race takes place. It's a race to see who can cross the bay before the ice is really capable of bearing any load. During my stay, I cannot remember anybody winning.
Eventually the ice is considered to be capable of taking the skidoo, and somebody intrepid (or foolhardy) tests the theory.
The station for the Penang Hill Railway was in this building, although the ticket booth and entrance is to the left.
Dresden Base - mit Piratenflagge = gegenüber von Areal "C 2" ,
bei ner Che Fahne und Toi Häuschen - danke an WBS70 :)
President Barack Obama participates in an Armed Forces Honor Farewell Review in his honor, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., Jan. 4, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt Ricky Bowden/Released)
Chalk's International Airlines, formerly Chalk's Ocean Airways, was an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in unincorporated Broward County, Florida near Fort Lauderdale. It operated scheduled seaplane services to the Bahamas. Its main base was Miami Seaplane Base (MPB) until 2001, with a hub at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. On September 30, 2007, the United States Department of Transportation revoked the flying charter for the airline, and later that year, the airline ceased operations.
The airline was founded by Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk, and started ad-hoc charter operations as the Red Arrow Flying Service in 1917 flying a floatplane. After "Pappy" Chalk served in the Army Air Service in World War I, he returned to Miami and commenced scheduled service between Miami and Bimini in the Bahamas in February 1919 as Chalk's Flying Service. Chalk's first base was a beach umbrella on the Miami shore of Biscayne Bay. In 1926 a landfill island, Watson Island, was created in Biscayne Bay close to Miami. Chalk's built an air terminal there, and operated from the island for the next 75 years. During Prohibition, Chalk's was a major source of alcohol smuggled from the Bahamas to the United States.
Pappy Chalk sold the airline to a friend in 1966, but continued to be involved in the daily operations of the airline until he retired in 1975. He died in 1977 at the age of 88.
In the early 1970s, Frakes Aviation bought the rights to the aircraft and began a conversion program, replacing the old Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engines with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops.[9] By 1985 three of Chalk's eight Grumman Mallards had been converted, with five ex-military piston engined Grumman Albatross aircraft making up the balance of the fleet.
In 1974, Resorts International purchased Chalk's Airlines, which became the primary air carrier to Paradise Island near the Bahamian capital of Nassau, where Resorts International owned and operated hotels and other resort facilities. After Resorts International constructed a short take off and landing (STOL) runway on Paradise Island and switched to using STOL-capable de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7 turboprop aircraft operated by subsidiary Paradise Island Airlines, it sold Chalk's in 1991 to United Capital Corporation, an Illinois-based investment firm (which was not affiliated with United Airlines).
The television show Miami Vice, a symbol of both Miami and the 1980s, featured a Chalk's seaplane in its opening credits. N2969, which had a fatal accident in 2005, as Flight 101 is featured in an extended scene at the end of the third-season episode Baseballs of Death, when the antagonist attempts to leave the US. The music video for George Michael's "Careless Whisper" and Miami Vice second-season episode One Way Ticket featured a Chalk's seaplane, N2974. In one of the final scenes of the motion picture Silence of the Lambs, Dr Frederick Chilton is seen disembarking a Chalk's aircraft in Bimini, where Hannibal Lecter is waiting to "have him for dinner". A Chalks plane also makes an appearance at the end of the movie 'After The Sunset' with Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek's characters embracing as they stand next to it. Chalk's fleet was as high-maintenance as it was glamorous. It was a unique carrier, its Watson Island base being the smallest port of entry in the United States. Chalk's revenues were about $7.5 million in 1986, when it carried 130,000 passengers. Most were staying at Resorts International properties, although island residents used the airline for shopping trips to Miami.
United Capital expanded Chalk's service to Key West, Florida, and Nassau and acquired additional aircraft, but struggled financially. In 1996, United Capital sold Chalk's to a group of investors, who operated the airline under the name Pan Am Air Bridge. In January 1998, Texas-based aircraft lease company Air Alaska purchased 70% of Pan Am Air Bridge, but following the collapse of Air Alaska, Pan Am Air Bridge filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection only a year later on January 11, 1999. James Confalone, a businessman and former Eastern Airlines pilot, purchased Chalk's out of bankruptcy for $925,000 on August 2, 1999; it had been reduced to two aircraft and only 35 staff. Confalone bought five additional Grumman Mallard seaplanes and arranged a contract to buy 14 larger Grumman G-111 seaplanes to expand the operation. On December 17, 1999, the airline was relaunched as Chalk's Ocean Airways.
In late 2001 following the September 11 attacks, Chalk's was forced to leave its longtime operations base on Watson Island due to security concerns over its proximity to the Port of Miami. Helicopter traffic had also increased around Watson Island.Operations moved to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where Chalk's already had its maintenance base.
The airline suspended operations after the crash of Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 on December 19, 2005. It had planned to resume flights between Fort Lauderdale and the Bahamas under its earlier name of Chalk's International Airlines on November 9, 2006, but its airworthiness certificate issued by the Bahamas had expired. It resorted to using aircraft "wet leased" from and operated by Big Sky Airlines to operate flights from Fort Lauderdale to Key West and to St. Petersburg, Florida. Chalk's added flights between Palm Beach International Airport (PBIA) and destinations in the Bahamas in late May 2007, but carried only 14 passengers through PBIA that August.
Chalk's ceased flying from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after September 3, 2007. After the final report from the Flight 101 crash investigation was released, the United States Department of Transportation revoked the airline's flying authority for scheduled service on September 30, 2007, effectively shutting down the airline. Chalk's continued to hold its FAR 121 operating with a part 298 authority in good standing, and sought to add 60-passenger regional jets to its FAR 121 operating licence, but these efforts never came to fruition.
Chalk's had claimed to be the oldest continuously operating airline in the world, having begun operations in 1917 and scheduled flights in February 1919, and having only ceased operations for three years due to World War II, two days due to 1992's Hurricane Andrew, and eleven months due to an "at altitude tragedy" on December 19, 2005. The title of oldest operating airline is now given to KLM of the Netherlands, founded later in 1919.
In 1994, Captain John Alberto and co-pilot Alan Turner drowned after their aircraft sank due to the failure of the airplane's bilge pump while they were taxiing at Key West. Captain Alberto left behind a wife and two children. Jimmy Buffett dedicated a chapter to Captain Alberto in his book A Pirate Looks At Fifty.
On December 19, 2005, Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale to Bimini made an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami.[8] Within a minute of taking-off again, it fell into the sea near Miami Beach. Witnesses said they saw smoke billowing from the plane and the separation of its right wing as it plunged into the ocean.[18] None of the twenty people on board – eighteen passengers and two pilots – survived. At first, only nineteen of the twenty bodies were found (by the Coast Guard and Miami Beach Ocean Rescue); on December 23, 2005, the twentieth was found by two Miami-Dade firefighters while fishing on their day off. Investigators later identified cracks in the main support beam connecting the wing to the fuselage. The plane was a Grumman G-73T TurboMallard, registration N2969, manufactured in 1947. It was the second fatal accident for Chalk's Ocean Airways. A few months after the NTSB released its report on the crash, the airline shut down.
Lielvārde Air Base
Latvia
EVGA
Lielvārdes lidlauks
NBS Nacionālie bruņotie spēki
Sweden Air Force
Saab JAS-39B Gripen
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Pastry Workshop: Apples in the Big Apple
Pastry Chef Patrice Demers of Les 400 Coups, Montreal, Canada
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"The N & S chapels are the most interesting parts of the church. They are separated from the chancel by pairs of monuments open to the N & S, each pair with a doorway between.. The monuments have panelled depressed arches. They are to Paulets as follows: John & wife (NE) died 1492, but no doubt after 1520 - see the Roman lettering towards the chapel. - John & wife, dates of death not recorded (NW), - William, first Marquess, c.15445-60 (SE), -Second Marquess(/) (SW). The latter two monuments have renaissance details, the former do not."
From Pevsner BOE Hampshire.
In provincia di Piacenza, la base missilistica poco dopo la dismissione. Ospitava missili contraerei Hawk. Dal sito www.carloclerici.com
Mud-brick oven, 1.4m wide x 1.2m high, built with 24 kids (12-14 year old) over 3 weeks as part of the Fanar boarding summer school in Marsa Alam. The kids started with a theoretical intro on Building with Earth, soil components, and then started the steps of soil preparation: sieving, mixing, stomping, kneading and brick-making. With over 500 sundried mud-bricks, they collectively and accumulatively built the oven made of a cylinder base, middle plate and dome with front opening and chimney. Mud-brick ovens are so widespread along the Nile valley, north and south, and is one of the now-threatened vernacular practices that extend to hundreds of years back.
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