Was about to say that looks like a blast furnace.
We have plenty of them around here, active ones as well as old ones turned into tourist attractions
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Came across this one at the photo exhibition “The Fragile Paradise” in the Gasometer Oberhausen
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@sgtoinkz tipped me off to the Kisarazu air show last weekend. V-22s are loud in a hover. I had scuffs on my filter and I didn’t realize my ISO was 1600, but it’s not like I have the proper focal length for this stuff anyway lol.
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I have been a bit busy lately…
This is the latest (yesterday), the third time this year I have been down to this area and a long day. Left home at 0700 got back just before mignight.
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View from the office?
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Yep! Corner cubicle.
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You can hear the valkyries sing in that pic. 
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That’s Incredible!!! All of a sudden…I feel very small 
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Soul crusher!
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Ran down to the river when the sun was about to peak through the clouds for the last time today:
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That could be scary!
Windy???
can be but it is safer than it looks. For example in that first photo I would not have been standing where I was if I didn’t have burnt ground about 10ft behind me to retreat to.
In that second shot, the chopper is hovering - look at the water. I reckon only about half the bucket load actually hit the ground!
Those pilots are incredible the way that they can manouvre like they do in conditions like that with a bloody great pendulum swinging around beneath them.
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Panoramic taken from the top of the 118m tall Gasometer Oberhausen. Click the image to zoom in on flickr to see the details. It’s a 245 Megapixel panoramic.
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First day in the new job. Qualified as an F4 instructor then taught two students. First was under supervision. The second I was solo.
Then a session training on the B737-800. These were at the old Kai Tac.
@Troll the F4 and our 737-200 run on pro sim software written for Bristow helicopters. It only has north east scotland and a Nimitz class offshore. It is being changed to X plane. The B737 -800 runs on …
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That’s bloody awesome Scoop!
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I see! Thanks for the info.
So they will be integrating the sims into X-Plane… Will be interesting to see what you think of that transition.
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If they went for dcs they would have ended up paying for three commercial software licences. This way they just need 2.
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