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Dismantled Boeing B-52E Stratofortress, Edwards Air Force Base, Southern California.
Fun title , but it's actually not a crash site at all, though it does kinda resembles one. The historical details on this aircraft, serial # 0-70119, can be read in their entirety here, but in short, this decommissioned aircraft was placed out on what's known as the Photo Resolution Range at Edwards AFB back in the 1970's, and used as an aerial reconnaissance test-target. It was destroyed in 1991 for START treaty compliance with the Russians, and is now just a sorry collection of disembodied components set along the southern edge of the Rogers Dry Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert.
An interesting fact about all these jets placed on static display out on the desert fringes of Edwards Air Force Base. They're all technically in the inventory of Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, also located at Edwards AFB, with one even having a small, fallen-down plastic sign in the vicinity stating, as I recall, something to the effect that it's unlawful to mess with any of the "archaeological" exhibits on Edwards AFB property. I put archaeological in quotes because I'm not sure how these airframes count as archaeological exhibits, but that's roughly what it said.
Night, full moon, X-2000 flashlight on Joshua tree in foreground.
Sea gulls are as masterful in flight as any bird, though here it’s evident that a couple of these ring-billed gulls should have called for assistance from air traffic control. It’s a good thing laughing gulls weren’t around because… well, you know. The gull on the far left appears to be hauling off with a skate egg sack. I’m not too sure how edible they are, though with bacon, who knows?
I went to our river around noon to take a few photos of the waterfowl. Only the Egpytians geese were there but that was okay as they never disappoint. Once again they turned out to be very entertaining. :)
The theme for Macro Monday this week is "Intended contact".
The intention of this theme is to show 2 objects interacting with each other (actually touching !) for the purpose of performing a specific action. It must be clear that the contact is not just by coincidence but with the purpose to actually achieve something. I'm not sure if I really do that, but my effort is "Crash for cash!" Happy Macro Mondays!
In Crash for Cash scams, fraudsters deliberately crash into the vehicles of innocent motorists or submit false claims for accidents. The intention is to make as much money as possible from the exaggerated claim, with proceeds used to fund other accidents or even more serious crimes.
Crash for Cash comes in three scenarios:
1.) A Staged Accident is where fraudsters crash two of their own vehicles together, or use a sledgehammer to imitate the effects of a crash.
2.) An Induced Accident is where a fraudster will deliberately slam on the brakes of their car to ensure the car behind crashes into them.
3.) A Ghost Accident is where a fraudster will submit false claims for accidents that didn’t even happen
Alguien tomó una copa de más la otra noche y por poco se carga el Belén de luces que hay en la acera
We flew rockets to the sun
Knowing we'd crash and burn
And that's the risk we run
When you fall in love
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I had this idea in my head for a while. However I lost enthusiasm on doing the final run through and just ended up with this. lol
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In 1973 a US Navy DC-117D crash landed on Sólheimasandur Beach in Iceland. The cause of the crash was due to severe icing, fortunately, the entire crew of 7 survived the crash. It's now a popular tourist attraction.
The Bisti wings (hard layers that protrude out from their soft supports) are doomed to crash eventually. Here's the wreckage of one.
I felt as if I had crash landed on another world. The polar winds howled through the wreckage of the craft, hurling up the pitch black sand rattling against the fuselage. The aurora created flashes of light high above. Its streaks of green and purple added to the eery atmosphere.
It was the dead of night. I was tired and alone. Trusting on my equipment to keep me safe, I carefully explored my surroundings.
Follow me on my adventures around the world(s).
It may look as though Saturn's moon Mimas is crashing through the rings in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but Mimas is actually 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) away from the rings. There is a strong connection between the icy moon and Saturn's rings, though. Gravity links them together and shapes the way they both move.
The gravitational pull of Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across) creates waves in Saturn's rings that are visible in some Cassini images. Mimas' gravity also helps create the Cassini Division (not pictured here), which separates the A and B rings.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Mimas. North on Mimas is up and rotated 15 degrees to the right. The image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 23, 2016.
The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 114,000 miles (183,000 kilometers) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 29 degrees. Image scale is 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) per pixel.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.
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