The above shot is from the Roswell air park. Taken last week in a three shot pano. It was huge. This is the 1/3 version. Roswell air park used to be Walker AFB and had a hot pad as well as a staging base for the ICBMs that had silos in and around the area. There are also bombing ranges with nifty targets of built up mounds of dirt in the shape of ships and such. You can see them on Google Earth and if you look up Roswell targets on the nets it will give you the coordinates. Lots of holes still out there.
Not one damn alien but some strange people still.. could be aliens.. or tourists.
We went down to Roswell to get new badges and also install a new DTS1 Sensor... Layman's terms.. dew point sensor. Plus some cleaning of the optics since we were there. Nice drive down. So much open space and long straight roads... Strange things to see and some fun with the camera as we were driving. All seen below.
On the way South from Clines Corners. I remember a time when this was only two lanes and constantly foggy and it was your life to try and drive it.
Edge of Vaughn.
Eastern Dude outside of Vaughn.
Western Dude outside Vaughn. I really have no clue.
Roswell has a new sign coming in to town. Cute... Aliens and cows.
Heading down to the center of town... not a lot of change in a year....
ASOS or Automatic Surface observation System. Sensors from left to right or close to far.. Visibility, Freezing Rain, Celometer, Winds and Data package ( big white box ) Present Weather, Temp/Dew Point, Rain Guage with shield ( AWPAG ). Bark and dirt under T/DP for actual readings. This system, while very good at what it is set to do needs constant maintenance due to the weather and climate it sits in.
747, L1011, 747. Parking at Roswell is under 2 dollars a day. Elvis's jet still sits below the tower.
Inside the terminal a nice model suspended from the ceiling. There is even a neat museum about the base in here to wander through.
Heading out of town and into Smokey Bear area a lone rider wearing a rain cape rolls along. Sprinkles.
Carizozo dust devil heading North again.
Somewhat abused windmill.
So much space to stretch out. A new wind farm is being installed up North. Ugly and kills the view.
Booooo......
Well then... That led us into Saturdays flying. I went out to assist Bob and check out the repairs on Pitas Kiss. Good job but a couple of problems to get fixed. Nothing major. He flew off as there were a lot of able bodied crew and took Matt on his first flight. A nice one our tour of the North Rio Rancho mesa and arroyos. Mo also got his gear out and flew Mojo ( Ytivarg ) with another new to flying person. He went off and had a lot of fun.
Bob landed at the Rainbow launch field and Mo tootled off West farther.... for fun.
World Balloon cuts through the air in the early morning.
Pitas Kiss lopes along.
Mojo spiking the sky with that bright yellow.
Lovely clouds to contrast the balloons off of. Could have been a little brighter but hay....
Grim knot. Pretty cool.
Mojo lookin like a storm chaser but the virga was way off... It just looks close.
Enchanted Diamonds bopped on the head! Naa... just laying down after the flight.
Pitas Kiss resting while we watch the strange late flying going on.
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave.
I find this spot quite nice to sit on.
It really was a good day and I do wish I had flown but you make plans and should stick with them. I did. It was fun.
Hoping to get a good flight in myself on Labor Day weekend. Its Highperactives turn out of the trailer so that might be a bit of fun if we can do some rocketing upward and super speed drops.
Today I had to become a lumberjack and cut down what I though was going to be two trees ( not huge but too big ) and that turned out to be one huge bush, one tree and a group of trees and then one mass of tree insanity out front. Neighbor has a old tree that keep dropping seeds all over my yard and if you try you still wont get all the sprouts and these just got away.. so a lot of saws-all cutting later they are down to low stumps that I will have to poison with some stump killer or they will re-sprout and I will have to deal with it again.... and I hate yard work.
I think I will call my landscaper friend to come assess the cost of getting rid of the stumps, grading the ground correctly and laying plastic out for rock. That would be perfect. So many things to do and so little want to deal with them.
Now after all that its rest time and create this blog of stuff.
I had some cool link to share also...
Throw back movie soundtrack just goes to show the old music is still great and the new music sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeU0_1CTdA
A pretty neat piece of music...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzm9bF9oLqw
I remember a lot of diners on our family road trips across the US
http://flashbak.com/roadside-america-a-look-at-midcentury-diners-31554/
And even thought I dont care for her acting or voice its a good song and funny movie by a loon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmV5MW_XAtg
Ahh to be rich and brainless..... Ill just stay me.... semi brained and relatively content.
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and a pin to fix again.. I screwed it up last night.... was too tired.
