> On 13 October 2017 at 01:33 ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah - kinda what I said... but there is another reason... The planes > _usually_ take off to the west, because of the prevailing winds ... > > Mike - where is the article that these photos were in?
It was on the BBC news site. I can't find the article on a quick search. > > ann > > On 10/12/2017 6:54 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 05:29:03PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> Google maps shows the hotel within a quarter mile or so of the hotel, so > >> the photo is obviously possible. Take off runways and direction vary from > >> day to day and even hour to hour depending on wind direction and velocity. > > The hotel may have been close to the airport, but from the news coverage we > > learn that the shooter was able to fire rounds that struck fuel storage > > tanks on the airport. This means the fuel storage would be visible from the > > side of the hotel with the broken windows. Air Force One appears to be on > > the other side of the hotel. As the hotel is on the Las Vegas strip, and > > not in the middle of the airport, this strongly suggests that to get such a > > photograph isn't actually possible. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
