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Subject: [OM] Re: #225
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:29:16 +0000
Chris,

I guess the USAF folks changed the rules since back when they used to fly me 
around for fun and grins anytime I felt like taking a ride.  Maybe I screwed it 
up for everybody else.

https://publish.att.net/wsb-cgi-bin/view.cgi/photo.html?wsbID=192375&SiteID=793319

I bet you can come pretty close to guessing how long ago that was.

Walt, aging faster and faster

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
--snip-- 
> But, more seriously, the most beautiful skies for me have been from  
> the air, especially at heights of more than 20,000ft like those chaps  
> in the airliner cockpit (LUG gallery).  By far the most beautiful of  
> all were: heading west across the North Sea from the Netherlands to  
> East Anglia with the sun setting between layers of clouds; and coming  
> off a tanker (KC10) at night over the Gulf of Mexico and looking  
> towards the thunderstorms over Tampa and south to Sarasota.  The  
> lights of the tanker (McDonnell Douglas never stinted on their  
> aircraft lighting (;-)) against lightning-lit towering cumulo-nimbus  
> formations made a fantastic sight.  Of course there was no time to  
> produce a camera, even if it had been within the rules to carry one  
> on a USAF aircraft ...
> 
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
> 
>
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