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« Reply #30 on Apr 29, 2012, 10:55pm »		[Quote]
What the hell happened here? This started as a thread about rooftops and seems to have morphed into a thread of images that have little to nothing in common. something's seriously f'd.
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« Reply #31 on Apr 30, 2012, 4:59am »		[Quote]
That's probably because the thread was not named "rooftops." :D "Aloft" conveys another idea.
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« Reply #32 on Apr 30, 2012, 12:11pm »		[Quote]

Apr 30, 2012, 4:59am, kerouac2 wrote:
That's probably because the thread was not named "rooftops." :D "Aloft" conveys another idea.


Actually, it WAS called rooftops until it was trampled on.
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« Reply #33 on Apr 30, 2012, 2:53pm »		[Quote]
I'm wondering if one typed ROOF or ROOFTOPS into the search engine what would it turn up?

Maybe,AROOF?

I do take issue with the arbitrary and capricious,selective, changing of the names of the threads that people start.
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« Reply #34 on Apr 30, 2012, 6:24pm »		[Quote]
Apologies if my photos were inappropriately placed .I was following the aloft/ from aircraft theme of previous photos. Having gone back and re-read I can see that the original post was a quite different theme.

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« Reply #35 on Apr 30, 2012, 6:50pm »		[Quote]
I agree that "aloft" and "rooftops" should probably be unmerged as they are not at all the same subject.
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« Reply #36 on Apr 30, 2012, 7:19pm »		[Quote]

Apr 30, 2012, 6:24pm, lugg wrote:
Apologies if my photos were inappropriately placed .I was following the aloft/ from aircraft theme of previous photos. Having gone back and re-read I can see that the original post was a quite different theme.



lugg, please, not directed at you or anyone else who posted. Somehow the original thread was renamed and perhaps merged with another thread of aerial images - which although very good, don't share much in common with those in the original Rooftops thread. I'm sure it can be fixed easily enough.
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« Reply #37 on May 3, 2012, 6:30pm »		[Quote]


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lugg, please, not directed at you or anyone else who posted. Somehow the original thread was renamed and perhaps merged with another thread of aerial images - which although very good, don't share much in common with those in the original Rooftops thread. I'm sure it can be fixed easily enough.


No worries Imec - my post was just meant to convey.... " I agree "
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« Reply #39 on Jul 21, 2012, 4:19am »		[Quote]
Lovely K2 - I wonder what mountains are in the background ? The Alps
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« Reply #40 on Jul 21, 2012, 4:29am »		[Quote]
Those are called the Alpilles -- the foothills of the Alps.
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« Reply #41 on Aug 3, 2012, 7:36am »		[Quote]
Rooftops of Blois

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Flying in the Grand Canyon

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« Reply #42 on Aug 3, 2012, 2:17pm »		[Quote]
The first photo has a nice contrast between the red brick chimneys and the muted grey skies. Well done.

The Grand Canyon is such an impressive sight. I flew over it recently but unfortunately didn't have a view, so I walked the aisle and tried to get a peak out of the windows on the other side of the plane. Everyone was oohing and ahhing, but one guy had his window firmly shut (and he wasn't even taking a nap)! So irritating. There ought to be a law that window seats be sold only to those who appreciate them.
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« Reply #43 on Aug 3, 2012, 7:02pm »		[Quote]
Here I am, trying not to fall into the Grand Canyon, and worrying about it :D :(
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« Reply #44 on Aug 3, 2012, 7:04pm »		[Quote]
Did my usual, forgot the paste bit ::) ::)

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« Reply #45 on Aug 3, 2012, 7:18pm »		[Quote]
Long way down!
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« Reply #46 on Aug 3, 2012, 7:22pm »		[Quote]
Here is one taken from the Eiffel Tower. No, not that one, this is in Las Vegas.
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« Reply #48 on Nov 22, 2012, 9:04pm »		[Quote]
Desert scenery. Sinai Egypt.

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« Reply #49 on Nov 22, 2012, 10:31pm »		[Quote]
Mossie, I have several pictures taken on the rim of the Grand Canyon, but the river is not visible in them. That's a really great shot of you on the edge. I was very surprised at the impression the Grand Canyon made on me.

Interesting photos of the Sinai desert.
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« Reply #50 on Nov 23, 2012, 12:52am »		[Quote]
Great photos of the desert, mossie. Was it an area that you explored at some time?
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« Reply #51 on Nov 23, 2012, 2:43pm »		[Quote]
"Was it an area you explored", Deyana I spent an intense 2½ years as a night fighter navigator, in the RAF, just across the Suez Canal from the Sinai desert. Most of our flying was done over that area so we got to know it fairly well. I have described this period in the article I wrote for the attached website. I claim that the period covered in this little tale was my "university education" ::) ;D ;D ;D
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Canal/fighternav.html
We flew from the airfield shown here. The Sinai desert is the featureless area at the top of the shot, the Suez Canal runs through the next area. To the left is the Great Bitter Lake with the Little Bitter Lake on the right. The dark splodge between the Lakes is a grove of trees which sheltered the Suez Canal signalling station. If you look at it on Google Earth you will see that a standard Russian twin runway fighter type airfield, has been superimposed on our old runway.
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Here is the old signalling station, the grove is just to the left.
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« Reply #52 on Nov 24, 2012, 7:59pm »		[Quote]
So interesting, mossie. Thanks for the explanation and photos. Looks like you've lived quite the adventurous life. 8-)
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« Reply #53 on Nov 25, 2012, 2:09pm »		[Quote]
I don't look back on my life as being adventurous, far from it, I am the biggest coward. I have just been incredibly lucky to "have been in the right place at the right time". Not that it has always seemed that way ::) ;D ;D
See the attached page from my logbook, the significance of this is that my 21st birthday was June 18th 1953 :o ;D ;D
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I bet you weren't required to work from morning to night on your 21st :o
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« Reply #54 on Nov 25, 2012, 4:25pm »		[Quote]
Young men never get tired, mossie. Better to have done it then than now!
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« Reply #55 on Nov 25, 2012, 7:06pm »		[Quote]
They did work incredibility long hours in those days didn't they? I guess you had to made of tough stuff to handle all that.

Mossie, it's always been the 'being at the right place at the right time' for most us. But that's also the fun of it, you just never know what's around the corner. :)

Hope you did get to have a party of sorts for your 21st. ;)
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« Reply #56 on Nov 26, 2012, 7:22pm »		[Quote]
Actually the long hours were not so bad. We had the afternoons off, to drink in the bar, play bridge or swim in the Great Bitter Lake. the Bitter Lakes were so named because they were extra salty due to evaporation. This also meant that the water was denser, and so, like the Dead Sea, one could float easily. If you rolled up in a ball you did not sink, your back just broke the surface. That is where I learnt to swim 8-) 8-), and drink ;D ;D
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« Reply #57 on Feb 26, 2013, 3:27pm »		[Quote]
Looking down from the Mlondozi picnic site- Kruger Park, and the loneliness of an old bull on the waters edge.
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« Reply #58 on Feb 26, 2013, 6:14pm »		[Quote]
Wow! I haven't looked into this thread in ages, and look what all I've missed. What wonderful photos-as-photos, but also extremely interesting in subject matter.
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That ones frame-worthy, tod! Beautiful.
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