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Post by imec on Apr 29, 2012 22:55:04 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 4:59:58 GMT
That's probably because the thread was not named "rooftops." "Aloft" conveys another idea.
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Post by imec on Apr 30, 2012 12:11:39 GMT
That's probably because the thread was not named "rooftops." "Aloft" conveys another idea. Actually, it WAS called rooftops until it was trampled on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 14:53:45 GMT
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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Post by lugg on Apr 30, 2012 18:24:36 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 18:50:40 GMT
I agree that "aloft" and "rooftops" should probably be unmerged as they are not at all the same subject.
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Post by imec on Apr 30, 2012 19:19:12 GMT
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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Post by lugg on May 3, 2012 18:30:10 GMT
No worries Imec - my post was just meant to convey.... " I agree "
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 19:08:37 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jul 21, 2012 4:19:41 GMT
Lovely K2 - I wonder what mountains are in the background ? The Alps
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 4:29:43 GMT
Those are called the Alpilles -- the foothills of the Alps.
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Post by 6lucky on Aug 3, 2012 7:36:03 GMT
Rooftops of Blois Flying in the Grand Canyon
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Post by nycgirl on Aug 3, 2012 14:17:05 GMT
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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Post by mossie on Aug 3, 2012 19:02:55 GMT
Here I am, trying not to fall into the Grand Canyon, and worrying about it
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Post by mossie on Aug 3, 2012 19:04:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2012 19:18:29 GMT
Long way down!
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Post by mossie on Aug 3, 2012 19:22:05 GMT
Here is one taken from the Eiffel Tower. No, not that one, this is in Las Vegas.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2012 7:48:48 GMT
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Post by mossie on Nov 22, 2012 21:04:00 GMT
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Post by htmb on Nov 22, 2012 22:31:23 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2012 0:52:28 GMT
Great photos of the desert, mossie. Was it an area that you explored at some time?
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Post by mossie on Nov 23, 2012 14:43:27 GMT
"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 www.britains-smallwars.com/Canal/fighternav.htmlWe 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. Here is the old signalling station, the grove is just to the left.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2012 19:59:17 GMT
So interesting, mossie. Thanks for the explanation and photos. Looks like you've lived quite the adventurous life.
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Post by mossie on Nov 25, 2012 14:09:41 GMT
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 ;D ;D I bet you weren't required to work from morning to night on your 21st
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 16:25:59 GMT
Young men never get tired, mossie. Better to have done it then than now!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 19:06:01 GMT
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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Post by mossie on Nov 26, 2012 19:22:48 GMT
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 , and drink ;D ;D
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Post by tod2 on Feb 26, 2013 15:27:47 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2013 18:14:46 GMT
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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Post by htmb on Feb 26, 2013 23:08:44 GMT
That ones frame-worthy, tod! Beautiful.
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