(The one on the left is mine) lol ;)

*chuckles...

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You work at a hangar?

yuppers... old time aviation type here...

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How cool!

Looks to be a lumpy day to go flying. Great shot Vixyy. Reminds me of many mornings at Fort Jackson way back when.

It rains then it's sunny then it rains and then it's sunny...

thanks so much Fem...

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Yep then you get hit with a hail storm... then sunny... then a thunderstorm and sunny...

Then you are out in the field doing a forced march... you hear thunder and see the squall line coming with dark tendrils... You think here come the rain only to have the DI yell "Head for cover!" then you see the trees and ground come alive with what looks like gun fire... That's when you see it's hail and not little stuff... There is a covered shelter about 150 meters away and you all run for it as the DIs are trying to get the slower guys to move faster... A couple of guys saw they were not going to make it so they headed for the trees... I just made it to the shelter as the hail started coming down. One guy two DIs drug him to the trees to get him out of harms way... Some of the hail was golf ball sized, a few found were racket ball sized. Most of it was 1/2 to 3/4 inch size.

wow...

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That big stuff can put a world of hurt on you. The shelter roof was pock marked from the hail storms. Sargent Johnson told us about one trainee that got caught in one hail storm tripping in the mud face first, ending up with two cracked ribs and looking like someone had used his backside for a punching bag. Someone said he was BSing us. He told us it was him that got hurt in basic training before going over to Nam... So that kept him back two cycles and likely kept him from dying over there, because the unit he would have been with, 60% of them came home in a bag.

I'd say God had a hand in that one...

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Joe said the same thing.

That's quite a neat view.

Thank you Seth...

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Heh, first glace at the mini pic and the title had me thinking 'This morning's sky at the harbor' ...

and I would be fishing for sure...

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and the sky is grounded therein...

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Beautiful! What a nice start to the day. :)

I thought so too... I immediately sent the picture to my daughter in England...

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Looks like it was a wet night!

the weather here finally went back to what it was supposed to be with plenty of rain starting in the late afternoon and spotty during the night... it sure beats the ties of drought...

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Great pic!!! How about on the various aircraft? Not good at the various types of bizjets, though the second from the right looks like a Lear.
Btw, you an A&E? THE COLONEL

Getting tired of all the rain up here in MD.... Two days after mowing and can cut the yard for HAY!!!! WCJ

Is one of the A/C the afterburning Falcon 20? Wouldn't mind having that pocket rocket, or a the least the funds to be able to afford it!!!WCJ

oh no - the after burner pic was one my boss had on the wall from a place he previously worked. mostly the aircraft across the way are in maintenance or on hold for such. It's not our facility so I don't know their status.

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This reminds me so vividly of the shop when I worked lawn care. The lot was directly next to an airport and I would watch the planes every morning and evening. Love the reflections from the rain. You could just fall through the ground...

my daughter says I have an eye for such things - though no special thought goes into the picture... I just get lucky...

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Very good clouds, light, & reflections.

it was the perfect morning except for the heat...

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Really pretty!

We had a great one here in Colorado too, thunder clouds hanging low on the horizon out east, but then further east were some really high altitude plumes that were just whisps, looked like solar loops jumping up from behind mountains. And with the filter of smoke from the fires, the colors of sunrise and set are stunning!!!!

Sadly, I'm working for both sun up, and down, and the camera on my phone leaves MUCH to be desired for actual photography. Not to mention an industrial truck lot in the foreground....

None the less, I enjoyed my moment of zen, and I certainly hope you did as well!!!!

I wanted to get into aviation, but my dad refused to co-sign the loan

so I went into diesel mechanics on signature, and that didn't work out so well
now I'm a trucker after being almost everything else

GI bill for me and actually diesel mechanics probably make more money in any case...

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well, part of the problem I ran into is my dad Promised to give me his tools so I Could be a mechanic... but when the time came to turn them over, he wanted new tools...
I wouldn't have had a problem with that, IF HE DIDN'T WANT THEM BEFORE I GOT HIS CRAPPY OLD FUCKING TOOLS.
$50,000 worth of snap-on master mechanic set, or he wouldn't give me his $15,000 worth of old cheap chinese and craftsmen tools so I COULD earn the money.

if clinton hadn't been RIFing the military when I got out of highschool I would have gone Navy, and not worried about it

I really envy you your job and its location. Just looking at it on a monitor makes me feel lighter inside. And your daughter is absolutely right. You've put up enough pictures here to prove that.

thank you Wire.... so much...

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Awesome! That's the kind of sky they used to put in the WW2 victory posters

really? I never knew that...

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Yeah, with the big dramatic clouds in the background with the airplanes and/or soldiers in the foreground. That's what this pic reminded me of.

Big ol' fluffy clouds.

*hugs...

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*sweaty coffee hugs*

wow... my brother told me an old trucker told him that if everything turns green you're in big trouble...

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Very tropical looking environment. I bet the heat and humidity is hell this time of year.

Oh to be sure... I've been dealing with it for over forty years now... came down here and just got stuck. Time passes so quickly...

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This picture got me thinking about a small city in central Colombia called Villavicencio. The airport there is the home base for a number of small regional airlines that still operate DC-3s. They make dangerous flights over extremely remote parts of the country east of the Andes, primarily to isolated villages scattered throughout the region.

I want to say I was in Guatemala and I saw a lot of DC-3's and other wonderful old airplanes...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-F-cBF5ZbQ

thank you...

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middle right would be a Learjet. We work on those too...

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there are a gazillion different types... it makes me crazy too sometimes...

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What a beautiful view. <3

ty ty ty

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We don't get such otherworldly looking cloudscapes up here in the north.

I absolutely adore the ground reflections from the standing rainwater. <3

where is up north?

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Buffalo NY area

ohhhh.... home of the P-40. I grew up in Corry, Pa. which is just over the border from you.

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Where did you take this photo? Has to be in the florida/georgia area at least my guess.

Opa Locka, Florida

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I can't believe I missed this in my submissions. Brilliant photo, V. Sorry to be late to the party though!

better late than never... glad you liked the pic and bless my smart phone for that...

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I love the wet look of the tarmac. This would be good in black and white with a contrast boost as well I think.

I do get lucky with my phone... it's one of the features I love about it. It's also great for getting hard to see part numbers.

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