I'm afraid I'm joining this thread very late and am going back to the original OT thread.
A few years ago I worked about 20 miles from Prestwick Airport in bonnie Scotland. Sleeping in the office one morning, I was awoken by a horrendous noise that was Concorde passing low and slow over the office. 20 minutes later the sight repeated itself. To cut a long story short, British Airways used Prestwick for several years as their Concorde pilot training base (presumably the landing fees were low), and about every 3 - 6 months, we'd have a week where we would get Concorde fly pasts every 20 minutes. Despite the great noise, the novelty never wore off, and seeing the beast glide past brought a tear to my eye. Sadly, and to my eternal shame, I never bothered to point a camera at it. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Hultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:19 PM Subject: RE: OT:No camera=first Concord siting > Cotty: > > >LOL. My bad juxtaposition of sentences I'm afraid. That first paragraph > >should read: > > > >Hot air balloon, that's more my cup of tea. > > > >For filming big fires, major road accidents etc we use a Squirrel > >(helicopter) which means sitting in the cold with the door off. I don't > >mind that but I avoid anything else (like travelling in the load bays of > >Hercules C-130s with virtually no windows) where I can. > > Ah, that makes sense :-) > > >Nice pics BTW Anders :-) > > Thank you. I have a couple of friends that are die-hard parachuters. > Some of them do BASE jumps from antenna towers, tall buildings etc. > One of them even did parachute stunts for Angelina Jolie in her > recent movie. However, sometimes they rent a hot air balloon to dive > off from, and when they do that they need a couple of persons that > stay aboard so that the ballon won't be too light and help the pilot > with the landing. It was an awesome experience to fly, and to see > them jump off, and also to see the regular tourist ballons some 5000 > feet below... > > Here's how the Stockholm sky often looks like in calm summer evenings: > http://anders.hultman.nu/bilder/221/221-13.jpeg > > anders > ------------------------- > http://anders.hultman.nu/ >
