Aerial views

I went flying on a very calm morning a couple of years ago. How calm was it?

I saw this fellow pulling his trailer at a good clip westbound on a dusty road in the middle of the desert.

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Then I got in front of him and got this angle looking east -- his dust trail was still hanging over the road ten miles back.

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Pilawt said:
Then I got in front of him and got this angle looking east -- his dust trail was still hanging over the road ten miles back.
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Can't get much calmer than that!
 
Pilawt said:
I went flying on a very calm morning a couple of years ago. How calm was it?

I saw this fellow pulling his trailer at a good clip westbound on a dusty road in the middle of the desert.

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Then I got in front of him and got this angle looking east -- his dust trail was still hanging over the road ten miles back.

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Nice, still air
 
Over Cleveland on the way back to Detroit. We flew to KLBE for dinner. (good Italian food!)

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NoHeat said:
The blue truck looks like it’s full of corn.
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Possibly, but I think those are soybeans. The harvesters have paddle wheels, and I think those are used for soy and wheat.

Corn harvesters have spikes like in the image below- those strip the ears off the plant, and only those go into the machine:
JAK_8515 by Jack Silver, on Flickr
 
Cap'n Jack said:
Nice images.
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Thanks, I love yours as well. Mine were taken from a cell phone as I was flying and it shows. Every time I've had a real camera on a flight, I forget about it or get too busy.

You encouraged me so here is another of Alaska. This is the Harding ice-field from about 12,000 feet.
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Ok, one more...

Here is the Turnagain Arm just south of Anchorage during the winter. Normally this is open for boating and I kayaked through this area in July of the same year. By November, it looks like this and should be treated as lava when flying over..

Anchorage International is just off the right of the photo and the land on the upper left is the furthest point of the Keni Peninsula.

I'll reach land in the area around Hope during this flight.

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Lake Wenatchee and the Washington State grass airport adjacent to the lake.
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Had to look at this more than twice. It's the same round pen between the two buildings which threw me off.
 
Timbeck2 said:
Had to look at this more than twice. It's the same round pen between the two buildings which threw me off.
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It confused me too, when I took the pictures off the camera. It is the same round pen, and the fence shadows make that part of the pictures look out of focus, to me.
 
Anyone else notice in the second picture what appears to be a person standing in the door.??
 
Zeldman said:
Anyone else notice in the second picture what appears to be a person standing in the door.??
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If you follow the links, you can zoom in on the image. It looks like a piece of equipment to me.
 
NoHeat said:
Glory is why you see a bright halo around your shadow.

Mist droplets between you and the ground refract some sunlight back toward you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
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I suppose that is the best explanation, for now. There wasn't much, or any, mist, but it does look like the inside of a glory, without the color.

Here's a couple of nice ones
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JAK_7136 by Jack Silver, on Flickr
I scored an upgrade, that flight- you can tell because the glory is centered on first class.
 
Flew over a quarry and the gun club range complex the other day. There’s a 200 yard rifle range, a 600 yard (if I recall correctly), several shotgun and pistol as well as a couple of silhouette ranges. I haven’t been there in a lot of years, working from memory here.
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jsstevens said:
How tall are the Deer out there? That's an impressive tree protector.
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It's not the size, it's how high they can climb due to sheer numbers. Ever see those zombie movies where they get over the big wall because there are just so many of them? That's deer in NE and IA some years... yard rats.
 
DaleB said:
It's not the size, it's how high they can climb due to sheer numbers. Ever see those zombie movies where they get over the big wall because there are just so many of them? That's deer in NE and IA some years... yard rats.
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I suppose they moved east? My impression the past 2 or 3 years are numbers are down. I'm used to seeing them south of KLNK. I think there's a tunnel that lets them cross I-80
 
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