KLM Close Call

We enjoyed a nice week in St. Maarten.  One of our excursions during the week was to visit the Sunset Bar at the end of the airport runway.  As you can see, the runway starts at the beach and we watched a number of big and small planes land.  This spot is popular with the locals and tourist because of how close you can get to the planes.  The KLM flight into St. Maarten is the largest flight that lands here and it barely fits.  It is the “must see” flight if you’re heading to this spot. 

It didn’t get the best weather for this excursion, but we got what we came for, which was the close encounter with the landing planes. 

Have a great Christmas later this week.

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Something Totally Different

Tonight I have something different from what I normally post.  I took this picture last summer while on a visit to Georgia.  This is from within the Aviation Museum at Warner Robins Air Force Base.  Honestly I don’t know what type of plane this is and won’t look it up.  The last time I looked up an airplane name from the museum’s website, I had people telling me that I was wrong.  So I’ll just leave it at this…..  It is a very cool looking plane.

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A-10 Thunderbolt

This is a 7 exposure auto-bracketed set merged together using Photomatix Pro and edited in Photoshop CS6.  I took this photo during the summer on my visit to Georgia.  My son and I went down there to visit a great friend of mine, who I met over twenty years ago while I was in the military. 

During my time in the military, I spent lots of quality time around A-10s in the Middle East.  This specific A-10 is sitting outside the Warner Robins U.S. Air Force Aviation Museum.  

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Douglas A4 Skyhawk

I would like to start by telling you I am sorry I haven't posted anything lately with my normal every other day routine.  I’ve had some additional travel, which took Blair and I down to Georgia.  On the way, we stopped in Charlotte to visit family.  While we where there, we went to the Carolinas Aviation Museum  (http://www.carolinasaviation.org/).  It is a relatively small air museum but it had some interesting items. 

This is a picture from that spot.  It is a Douglas A4 Skyhawk, which is a carrier capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and Marines.  It went into use in the early 1960s and was used by the USA into the 1990s.  It is still in use by some militaries around the world today such as the Brazilian Navy. 

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