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The leaves are already falling, so the colours aren't as bright as I'd hoped, and two busloads of Chinese tourists arrived just as I got to the tower. Still, I managed to be patient and capture this panorama anyway. It was a lot more crowded than this — I've erased a lot of the crowds, leaving only a few people to lend scale to the image.
This High Dynamic Range 360° panorama was stitched from 99 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 19025 × 9513 (181.0 MP; 262 MB).
Location: Dorset Fire Tower, Dorset, Ontario, Canada
South Range Local Schools 22 - 2006 Thomas Freightliner; Bus Yard - Beaver Township - Mahoning County, Ohio. Bus is seen a few days before inspections. One of two 2006 Thomases in the fleet.
This rolling countryside on the shoulder of the Belknap Range provides some of the most striking vistas of New Hampshire's beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee
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The 15,740km (8500nm) ultra long range A340-500 and stretched 372 seat A340-600 are new variants of the Airbus A340 family, and are currently the world's longest range airliners.
Compared with the A340-300, the A340-600 features a 9.07m (35ft 1in) stretch (5.87m/19ft 3in ahead of the wing and 3.20m/10ft 6in behind), allowing it to seat 372 passengers in a typical three class arrangement. This gives Airbus a true early model 747 replacement and near direct competitor to the 747-400, with similar range, but, Airbus claims, better operating economics (per seat).
The A340-500 meanwhile is stretched by only 3.19m (10ft 6in) compared with the A340-300, and so seats 313 in three classes, but it has a massive range of 15,740km (8500nm), which makes it the longest ranging airliner in the world, capable for example of operating Los Angeles-Singapore nonstop.
The two new A340 models share a common wing. The wing is based on the A330/A340's but is 1.6m (5.2ft) longer and has a tapered wingbox insert, increasing wing area and fuel capacity. Both models feature three fuselage plugs. The other change to the A340 airframe is the use of the A330-200 twin's larger fin and enlarged horizontal area stabilisers. To cope with the increased weights the centre undercarriage main gear is a four wheel bogie, rather than a two wheel unit.
Both new A340s have a high degree of commonality with the A330 and other A340 models. They feature Airbus' common two crew flightdeck, but with some improvements such as LCD rather than CRT displays and modernised systems.
The A340-500 is powered by four 236kN (53,000lb) thrust Rolls-Royce Trent 556 turbofans, and the A340-600 by the 249kN (56,000lb) thrust Trent 556.
The commercial launch for the A340-500/600 was at the 1997 Paris Airshow, the program's industrial launch was in December that year when Virgin Atlantic ordered eight A340-600s and optioned eight. First flight of the A340-600 was made on April 23, 2001. After a 1600 hour flight test program, certification was received on May 29, 2002. Virgin Atlantic took delivery of its first A340-600 at the 2002 Farnborough International Airshow, and began commercial services in August.
The A340-500 made its first flight on February 11, 2002, and was certificated on December 3 after 400 hours of flight test.
1986 Range Rover with VM Diesel - Used for team selection of 1987 (Madagascar) Camel Trophy competitors - differs from event vehicles in a number of small details - one of which is the position of the front bars of the internal roll cage.
Seen here in 1999 - missing some of its equipment.
Has now been restored back to original condition.
Took with my "old" Canon Eos 400d (with Kit- Lense, 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6) last vacation in switzerland 2010. Next trip is starting in July this year. The preparation already has been started... I´m excited
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We hiked to a snowy, high, unnamed pass in Gates of the Arctic National Park, in the northern part of the Brooks Range, Alaska, USA
Y Garn on the right and the Devils Kitchen on the left
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I was first introduced to the section of the Orange – Broken Hill line through the Bumberry Range in the final year of the Silver City Comet. That was 1989 and throughout the following two plus decades I have returned at various times to record the changing face of rail action. Back in the 80s and apart from the Comet , it was virtually all ALCos with the occasional GM (chiefly 49s or 81s) thrown in for good measure but things were changing.
In late 1989, most of the 49s were transferred to Sydney for trip workings while the mid Nineties saw 82 and NR class arriving and for a short period, CLPs worked the then twice weekly Indian-Pacific. Further quite fundamental changes in the 2000s witnessed a wider variety of diesels appearing under the banner of numerous private operators. Throughout that whole time, I’ve enjoyed the challenge of choosing new locations, observing changing operations and generally enjoying motoring though the undulating countryside in this part of the state.
The following few scenes illustrate the passage of Pacific National’s 5YN2 steel train between the Bumberry Range and Bathurst on 30 November 2012.
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Just one of the amazing views we were blessed with on our two day hike through the Stirling Ranges. Couldn't resist stopping to contemplate how amazing God's creation is!
Taken on a Sony Xperia phone. :)
Nikon D800 E HDR Malibu Landscapes !
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons Shot with Nikon D800E: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
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These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Beautiful sunset and clouds reflected in the rushing river/stream after the rain!
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The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
In the Malibu canyons!
Malibu Creek after the November rains!
Majestic clouds in a blue blue sky!
Malibu Creek State Park is my favorite place for hiking and running in the Malibu Canyons!
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A C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft assigned to the 97th Air Mobility Wing out of Altus Air Force Base, Okla., arrives at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Nov 17, 2010, during the Mobility Air Forces Exercise held over the Nevada Test and Training Range. Approximately 40 C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft will assemble in aerial formations over the NTTR to conduct air and ground operations as part of the bi-annual, U.S. Air Force Weapons School Mobility Air Forces Exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brett Clashman)
I took a mad dash over to the Sawtooths yesterday, about a 5 hour drive one way and shot for the afternoon then returned after this sunset.
It was tough weather but I knew that going in but sunset finally provided some light. The Salmon River Valley is so pretty but in winter so much of it is inaccessible because of snowed over roads. i was hoping the road to Red Fish Lake would be open but it wasn't.
This is another area I should try to spend more time shooting but I don't think I will make very many more winter trips here unless someday I finally have enough camera gear and I buy a snowmobile :D
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The first generation of the Range Rover was built from 1970 until1996. This four-door version was introduced in 1981. RDW says this one is from 1972 but that seems to be too early for this model. It's powered by a 3.5 litre V8 engine with 136 PS.
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In December 1939, the US Army Air Corps had to consider the possibility that Nazi Germany might win a war in Europe, and that war with Japan was a possibility. If the Germans overran Europe, then bombers would have to operate from bases in Iceland or the Azores; if war came to the Pacific, the B-17s then in service would not have the range to reach Japan from the Philippines. With this in mind, the USAAC opened a competition for a heavy bomber that could carry 20,000 pounds of bombs over 2500 miles at 400 mph.
Consolidated, Douglas, Lockheed, and Boeing all submitted design ideas, but Boeing’s experience in heavy bomber design won it the contract for two prototypes, designated XB-29. Before the first aircraft even flew, the Battle of Britain, the invasion of the Soviet Union, and America’s entry into the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor increased the orders of B-29s to 500 aircraft, at a total cost of $4 billion—a contract unheard of at the time, and equalled only by the Manhattan Project in wartime cost.
When Boeing rolled out the first XB-29 Superfortress in September 1942, it was completely different from earlier Allied bomber designs. Besides being larger and capable of carrying a bombload only rivalled by the Avro Lancaster, the B-29 used a circular fuselage to reduce drag and increase fuel efficiency. It would be pressurized, allowing the crew to operate in comfort at 30,000 feet, a marked increase in altitude and crew comfort over the B-17s and B-24s then heading for combat in Europe and the Pacific; at that height, antiaircraft fire would be ineffective and only a few Axis fighters could reach the B-29. To further increase the B-29’s defensive capabilities, all four fuselage turrets were integrated into a primitive fire control computer controlled by one man, who would direct the other gunners onto targets.
Because the B-29 was so advanced an aircraft, it was no surprise that it ran into teething problems, mainly engine fires that would plague the Superfortress throughout its career. Making matters worse was the urgent need for the aircraft, as losses over Europe rose alarmingly and Japan’s war industry lay out of range of current aircraft; Boeing also constantly tweaked the design in an attempt to cure the engine fire problem and increase the Superfortress’ performance. So many design changes were being made that even the four plants that produced the B-29 across the United States could not keep up, leading to then-Senator Harry Truman being ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt to investigate the delays. A maximum effort in a subzero Kansas winter in March-April 1944 finally gave the USAAF 150 combat-ready B-29As. By this time, the situation in Europe had eased that the B-29 would likely not be needed, and so the Superfortress was earmarked for the Pacific, with the first aircraft arriving in China in April 1944. This brought not only the heretofore untouched Japanese industry in northern China within range for the first time, but also Japan itself.
However, missions from China, appropriately codenamed Operation Matterhorn, were to prove troublesome at best. While B-29s were able to hit Japan for the first time in June 1944, the mission exhausted available fuel and ordnance available in China and damage was miniscule. To support one B-29 mission, three dangerous supply missions had to be flown over “the Hump,” the Himalayan Mountains, and the literally hand-built B-29 airfields in China were vulnerable to attack from Japanese land forces. With this in mind, the B-29s were withdrawn from China to the recently-taken Mariana Islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian in September 1944; one of the reasons the Marianas had been invaded to begin with was to provide a base for the Superfortress. Tokyo itself was struck on the first B-29 mission to Japan from the Marianas, but once more, damage was light to the target. USAAF planners discovered why: the jet stream over Japan was so powerful that it scattered bombs in midair. Complicating the matter was that Japan had decentralized its war industry through the cities, instead of concentrating them in one area as the Germans had in Europe.
Curtis LeMay, commander of 20th Bomber Command in the Marianas, had the solution. After experimenting with a full-scale mockup city built in Utah, it was determined that Japan’s wooden cities were vulnerable to fire. B-29 crews were ordered to remove all defensive armament but the tail turret for added speed: the next attacks on Japan, codenamed Operation Downfall, would be made at low level at night to get below the jet stream, while precision bombing would be switched to area bombing with incendiaries. The results, begun in April 1945, were horrifyingly spectacular: Tokyo was razed to the ground with the deaths of over 100,000 people in a firestorm so intense it uprooted trees. Encouraged by these results, B-29s would go on to destroy nearly every major Japanese city over the next three months.
Simutaneously, Superfortresses mined the inland seas of the Japan island chain; combined with the US Navy’s submarine offensive, Japan’s industry ground to a halt, its defenses were in tatters (to the point that B-29s dropped leaflets warning Japanese civilians which cities were scheduled to be burned next), and the populace faced mass famine.
As the Japanese government still refused to surrender, President Truman authorized what he hoped would shock Japan into ending the war: the use of the atomic bomb. By the time the first bomb was detonated in July 1945, a handpicked B-29 group, the 509th Composite Group, had already been formed using special “Silverplate” modified Superfortresses built specifically for the atomic mission. Led by Paul Tibbets, one of the most experienced bomber pilots of the war, the 509th was to drop two atom bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was enough that Japan finally agreed to surrender in August 1945. The B-29 had ended World War II.
World War II did not end the B-29’s career. As the only bomber capable of carrying the heavy atomic bombs of the time, it would have to stay in the inventory until larger bombers could replace it, namely the Convair B-36 and Boeing’s own planned successor, the B-52. As such, B-29s were used in nuclear testing throughout the late 1940s and were supplied to Great Britain as a deterrent to an increasingly restive Soviet Union; RAF B-29s were known as Washington Is.
As the B-36 came on line, the B-29 was gradually retired, but it was to have one last hurrah in the Korean War—again, because no other bomber was available in quantity or with the range to strike targets in North Korea from Japan. At first, the B-29 was used in daylight attacks, but the presence of MiG-15 jet fighters forced it back into the night. Nonetheless, the B-29s caused considerable damage to North Korea’s infrastructure, vastly complicating Communist supply lines. When the war ended in 1953, so did the B-29’s active service. While some were converted to weather reconnaissance and tanker aircraft, most ended up being scrapped; the last B-29 left USAF service in 1960. Today, only about 26 B-29s survive in museums, and only two are flyable.
Many World War II-era aircraft on display did not see combat--in fact, that is one reason why they have survived to the present. 44-70016 is not one: she is a combat veteran. Delivered to the USAAF's 330th Bomb Group at Guam in April 1945, it participated in the fire raids against Japan, logging 32 combat missions and one confirmed kill against a Japanese interceptor. At war's end, she was retained by the USAAF/USAF instead of being scrapped, and flew as a TB-29A radar calibration aircraft stationed at Griffiss AFB, New York. In 1959 it was flown to Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona for storage, and saved from disposal in 1969, as by then there were few B-29s left. As the National Museum of the USAF already had a B-29, 44-70016 was instead donated to the Pima Air and Space Museum in 1975, where it remains today.
44-70016 has returned to her wartime configuration with a full set of turrets and her original nose art. It was a group tradition in the 330th to name each aircraft after an American city, and this aircraft got the name "Quaker City" on the starboard side in honor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The crew, however, wanted something more personal, and named it "Sentimental Journey" for Doris Day's hit song of March 1945. (This has caused a little confusion, as there are two "Sentimental Journeys" based in Arizona--this B-29 and the more famous B-17G that flies with the Commemorative Air Force in Mesa.)
When I was a student at the University of Montana in 2004, I used a picture of "Sentimental Journey" for a class project involving the B-29. It was something to finally see this B-29 in person.