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Post by mossie on Feb 27, 2013 14:56:12 GMT
Yes, a really classic picture Tod.
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Post by mossie on Feb 27, 2013 14:57:27 GMT
We had some talk a while back of a much missed department store in Paris. Samaritaine, well here is a snap I took a few years ago from the terrasse.
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Post by mossie on Feb 27, 2013 15:01:29 GMT
Now, something entirely different. Cairo from 30,000 ft.
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Post by onlymark on Feb 27, 2013 15:35:06 GMT
Brilliant mossie. Love it.
1948? Heading due North? In a Meteor? The central island of Zamalek probably wont have changed much from aloft. The north of it is still built up and the sports club to the middle/south bit is still there - have I asked if you visited the club? I see Heliopolis to the upper right, the international airport being just off photo in that direction. The whole of a suburb called Nasr City is missing (not built yet) in the area to the south of Heliopolis and the lack of buildings on the west bank is amazing. I can also just make out Maadi on the east bank to the south and looks like very few buildings between it and Garden City nearer the city. Amazing.
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Post by mossie on Feb 27, 2013 16:18:40 GMT
Close Mark Actually 9th Oct 1953. The suburb of Giza had not grown out to the pyramids by then, we were practically over them when that snap was made. My logbook calls it Exercise Blackboard and at 2 hours and 10 minutes was the longest flight I did in a Meteor. We were required to shut down an engine to get maximum endurance and stooge round keeping our eyes on 3 airfields used by the Egyptian air force and report any movements. We also had to keep our eyes in the sky as well in case we were attacked, in which case we could call for help from fighters which were standing by on the ground. The reason for all this was this was a period of heightened tension between the Egyptians and us and our people were afraid of them launching a sneak attack. All good fun and relieved the monotony of routine training flights.
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Post by mossie on Feb 27, 2013 16:20:58 GMT
PS. That was as close as I got to visiting Cairo while serving out there, we were very definitely "persona non grata" in those days. ;D ;D
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Post by onlymark on Feb 27, 2013 18:43:16 GMT
I am aware that it isn't too long ago that the Giza Road out from the city wasn't all built up, I'd like to have seen it like that. Now it's just a mess. Also there was something about how the road out to Giza wasn't paved until Richard Nixon went there. Over time I have seen old photos of Cairo and the change is amazing.
As an aside, my great grandmother opened a French school on the island of Zamalek after she was excommunicated as a nun in Paris. Thought I'd just drop that in.
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Post by htmb on Mar 1, 2013 4:18:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 18:16:15 GMT
Is that a hotel window view of D.C., htmb?
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Post by htmb on Mar 7, 2013 21:57:47 GMT
Yes, Kerouac, that's DC. I was at the Washington Hotel on their rooftop terrace celebrating a special occasion. The terrace is enclosed in the winter so photos through the plastic was challenging. I have included some daytime, exterior photos of the Washington Hotel in a thread somewhere. It's just East of the Whitehouse, across from the Treasury Building (I don't stay in hotels when I visit DC).
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Post by rikita on Mar 20, 2013 22:19:45 GMT
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Post by htmb on Mar 24, 2013 22:40:00 GMT
Somewhere over the Midwestern USA.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2013 23:00:02 GMT
Wow -- really strange & really good.
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Post by mossie on Mar 25, 2013 19:13:26 GMT
Quite amazing how the dark wooded areas give a 3D effect, with the snow covered fields as the high spots.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 22:38:21 GMT
Hard to believe that there has been such a severe drought in recent months!
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Post by rikita on Apr 13, 2013 21:09:09 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 14, 2013 1:28:53 GMT
SUPER photo, Rikita!
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Post by rikita on May 10, 2013 12:23:02 GMT
thanks...
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 24, 2013 14:47:35 GMT
From a cable lift on the Stubai Glacier in the Austrian Tirol (I would have put it in the Winter file, except that it was taken last week, and we'd gone up there to avoid the 30-degree C heat in the valley!)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2013 18:04:01 GMT
That's a beautiful, dramatic picture!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2013 18:29:54 GMT
I have been missing the Alps. I used to go there every year and I haven't been back for about 3-4 years now.
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Post by rikita on Jun 29, 2013 17:39:07 GMT
i only went there twice in my life so far, and would really like to go more often.
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Post by rikita on Jun 29, 2013 17:40:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 6:08:13 GMT
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Post by htmb on Oct 5, 2013 1:27:18 GMT
Those are conveyor belts moving the food plates past customers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2013 1:57:47 GMT
Really liking all these views from above
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Post by rikita on Oct 8, 2013 20:29:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2013 17:57:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2013 7:16:53 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Aug 26, 2014 9:08:04 GMT
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