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midendian, to planespotting
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Early morning adventure out to Travis AFB to catch NASA 926 departing after an overnight on its way back to Texas from a mission in Hawaii. Had never seen a WB-57 flying before. Not great pics since they used the more remote runway but still fun. Also US Navy E-6B departing before it (unrelated). @JetTip

NASA 926 WB-57 departing Travis Air Force Base/SUU. Imaging pod on nose. Planform view.
NASA 926 WB-57 departing Travis Air Force Base/SUU. Distant view from port rear with NASA logo on tail visible.

brunoph,
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@midendian Wow, that thing manages to make JT3Ds look big 😄

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midendian, to SanFrancisco
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Many photos on the signs at the Bay Model are credited to Robert Campbell, who seems to have been very active in aerial photography in the 90s and early 2000s. Great stuff. https://www.robertcampbellphotography.com/san_francisco.html

Ortho view or SFO’s terminal complex
Summer sunset view of San Francisco downtown with fog and Mount Tam
Oblique aerial of San Francisco’s sunset district

midendian, to random
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I think my takeaway from this is that I should de-rate my trust in other people’s air purifiers as the room CO2 concentration goes up. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5

midendian, to SanFrancisco
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midendian, to Oakland
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A decade ago this week, I learned that they open the Trinity test site to the public twice a year and I was underemployed so convinced @mct to go on a roadtrip why not. The Trinity site was interesting but the real treat was stopping at the VLA the day before. I was just starting to dabble in signal processing and one of the tour guides was working on their FPGAs—I learned a lot. Also the weather was incredible. https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=80321933%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=&view_all=1&min_taken_date=1396335600&max_taken_date=1397631599

Very Large Array radio dishes in dry grassland with two pairs of train tracks extending to the horizon
Very Large Array radio dish portrait with dramatic stormy and blue sky behind.
Large red railroad machine with rotatable wheels for moving VLA dishes, contrasted with dry grassland and dramatic stormy skies

petes_bread_eqn_xls,
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@midendian great photos

midendian, to random
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the internet has gotten very dumb but somehow I can still watch an hour on fixing test card generators from forty years ago so not all is lost. https://youtu.be/4XWZ4RnHk4g

brunoph,
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@midendian we often take our modern world for granted, and it's amazing to think how complex the task of this box was, what nowadays amounts to rendering a vector shape

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another lovely one-runway day at SFO.

midendian, to Birds
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midendian, to random
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So they’re just proposing to build pre-car Main Street neighborhoods but with no permitting processes, as if we didn’t just do that a century ago and discovered it gets complicated quickly. Typical “if we could just start from scratch we’d do it so much better” attitude you see at every software org. https://sfyimby.com/2024/02/yimby-interview-with-california-forever.html

midendian, to random
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“good morning everyone, hope you enjoyed your breakfast. we’re going to spend the fifteenth hour of this flight trying to land at SFO.”

midendian,
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was running on a single runway for most of the day. Wind pushed both departures and arrivals to RWY 10 (already a rare condition) but 10R is closed for repairs. Luckily once the worst of the wind started mid-afternoon, the direction had changed enough to move to 19L/R—with an obvious relief in the voices of the controllers.

But still a fun afternoon hanging out with the resident seagull population of the Tanforan Target parking lot.

Air France 777 arriving SFO RWY 10L in bouncy stormy conditions
British Airways A380 arriving KSFO RWY 10L in very windy conditions
Six seagulls (one brown) standing in pairs in a parking lot with a green hill in the background reading SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO / THE INDUSTRIAL CITY in white letters

midendian,
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midendian, to SanFrancisco
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midendian, to SanFrancisco
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midendian,
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poking around the map this afternoon I realized I’d never been to Holly Park. super clear today, even my phone could see the radome on Mount Tam.

View from holly park looking to burns vista park on the right (prominent apartment building is 555 buena vista).

midendian, to planespotting
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brunoph,
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@midendian one consistent theme: long things with pointy tips that can fly

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this must be what it’s like for normies trying to listen to air traffic control

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