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Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Topaz Ranch Estates (Tre) Fire

Tre Fire viewed from commercial flight May 22 6:45PM
5 minutes later, another angle

The TRE (Topaz Ranch Estates) Fire started at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22. The fire burned in cheat grass, sagebrush and pinyon pine/juniper on mostly BLM public lands, one mile north of Nevada State Route 208 and three miles east of U.S. Highway 395 near Topaz Lake (about 60 miles south of Reno, Nevada). On May 26, full containment was achieved with the help of cooler weather and some precipitation.

Incident Information [inciweb.org]

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Plane to See


Seattle Museum of Flight.


B-17 in flight (the same aircraft that is parked near the upper-left corner in the aerial image above).


Concorde, American 727, Prototype 747 and 737.