19 May 2012
Flying from Hurricane, Utah.
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Hurricane airfield and town.
Typical Mormon town,
with intensive agriculture on every bit of useable land,
and four big Mormon churches in one street.
And everything very neat and tidy.
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They have two playgrounds right near town.
This one wet.
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And this one dry.
"...Go play in the sand pile..."
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Entering Zion National Park.
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This is as far as I could go safely..... |
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Strange geology. |
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This a track for testing aircraft ejection seats.
They mount the seat on a rocket-powered sled and shoot it off the end,
then check the results at the bottom......
I'm told there was sometimes a monkey strapped in the seat.......
It'd be a great ride.....if the parachute worked.....
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Flat roofed houses in this low rainfall country. |
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The 'Southwest' style of architecture. |
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20 May 2012
Annular eclipse of the sun.
I took off just before the eclipse and got this photo at maximum coverage.
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One day at Hurricane airfield I noticed a Zenith 801 without slats. I went over to visit, and he told me how well it goes with VGs instead of the original slats. He was quite amazed to find out that I had manufactured the Stolspeed VGs he was using! www.stolspeed.com
At Cascade, Idaho I also met a Super cub with my Stolspeed VGs on it. Quite a buzz!
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