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#3721165 - 01/19/13 09:45 PM More Flying pics (lots) ***  
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After enjoying Mailman's recent thread , I thought I would sift through the 2000+ photo's I had on my iPhone and share a few.

This was taken by a passenger riding in the jumpseat of the Challenger. I was in the left seat for this landing at Austin-Bergstrom airport.


Looking across the GA ramp at KSFO.


Crossing the Andes..


Volcano Popocatpetl located South East of Mexico City.


Looking through a lower cloud layer at the sunset. Kind of neat with the contrails of preceding aircraft.


Not a flying pic, but with an aviation theme. In November I was fortunate enough to be on a trip to New Zealand. While there I, along with the rest of the crew, visited the Mosquito at Ardmore (just outside Auckland).


Bimini Island, just off the East Coast of Florida


Rolling down the runway at Anguilla Intl Airport in a Cape Air Cessna 402. I was headed home for Thanksgiving after flying in the day before. You can see the Global Express parked off on the left.


Somewhere over the Caribbean:


Cumulonimbus over the Caribbean.


The next two are of a mountain just East of Los Angeles.



Mountains shrouded with mist, close to Lima, Peru.


Interesting terrain just to the West of Rio De Janeiro.


Past and Present.. King Air B200 and the Global. Both 'Favorite' types.


Looking through the HUD on the Global Express XRS.


The Global parked at Heber City airport,close to Salt Lake City.


Dawn at Anguilla Intl Airport.


It's a rough job, but someone has to do it smile


Pressing the 'LAND' button wink


Me and the fleet (Global and Challenger)


Much nicer photo of the fleet, without me in the way wink


The Global is a very photogenic airplane.


The Global being pushed out of the hangar at sunrise.


The Global Express sim at Flight Safety International in Wilmington Delaware. The graphics are not bad, but not to the standard we see in modern PC sims. The cockpit it pretty high fidelity though wink.



Chicago. It still makes my blood boil when I see what they did to Meigs Field. banghead


Land's End, England.


Flying over the Alps



Sunrise, Geneva Intl Airport.


Sharing the friendly skies..


Sea Ice as we approach Newfoundland.


Some guy holding the fort up front. Must be an empty leg as I am dressed casual smile.


I guess that all illustrates why I haven't posted any astronomy images this past 12 months. dizzy

Last edited by Paul Rix; 01/19/13 09:52 PM.

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#3721169 - 01/19/13 09:54 PM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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No wonder you have a grin from ear to ear you lucky bugger !! That`s NOT work lol !






Paul


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#3721173 - 01/19/13 09:59 PM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Paul, those were great thanks for sharing. You doing mostly right or left seat ?

That picture of Lands End England shows how the land and water interact to create weather. Familiar sight to us fliers here in Florida.


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#3721175 - 01/19/13 10:08 PM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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OG, we usually swap legs as far as the left/right seat goes.


Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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#3721206 - 01/19/13 11:13 PM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Oh...those are awesome Paul smile

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#3721216 - 01/19/13 11:41 PM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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2800 FPM climbing thru FL 320 @M.82. Pretty sweet! You won't see that in an airliner--at least not a loaded one.

#3721220 - 01/19/13 11:51 PM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Meigs just looks like a pile of dirt now! cuss2

All your pics look awesome though thumbsup

Thanks

#3721300 - 01/20/13 01:37 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Fantastic pics! Thanks for sharing.

#3721306 - 01/20/13 01:47 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Great pics Paul!


“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#3721323 - 01/20/13 02:37 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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whoa! Flying for Valero? NICE! Where are you based?

#3721369 - 01/20/13 05:07 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Not Valero Ripper, although the logo is similar. We are based just up the road from you in Austin.


Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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#3721394 - 01/20/13 06:08 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Just beautiful!! lucky sods smile





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#3721406 - 01/20/13 06:34 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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Awesome pictures Paul. smile
Those mountains just east of Los Angeles look a lot like the ones near Chino California.


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#3721462 - 01/20/13 10:35 AM Re: More Flying pics (lots) [Re: Paul Rix]  
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You are a very lucky man, Paul. Awesome!


In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!

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