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While inbound to Madrid we past almost overhead Getafe AFB and as luck has it 2x ex Qantas Airlines A330 for the RAAF Sitting out on the East pan
Cheers Steve not as good as yours
Impressive! Closing at what, 900 kts?
but flying over Cape Canaveral and the Vehicle Assembly Building
The foundation presented unusual problems. Tests showed a three-foot (one-meter) limestone shelf 118 feet (36 meters) below the surface. The layers below that were silt overlaying bedrock at a depth of 160 feet (49 meters). Core borings revealed petrified wood, carbon-dated to be 25,000 years old. It was decided that the massive VAB would rest upon steel pipe pilings, 16 inches (41 centimeters) in diameter and 3/8 inch (10 millimeters) thick, driven into the limestone bedrock. The foundation contractor spent six months driving 4,225 pilings through the upper limestone layer. When the job was complete, 128 miles (206 kilometers) of steel pipe had been buried.
Not technically great, but flying over Cape Canaveral and the Vehicle Assembly Building, courtesy of Sir Richard, and a 747-700 (I really should remember which one...think it was G-VROM)...DSC_9898 by Sam Gibson, on Flickr
Taken somewhere over Southeastern Turkey I believe...
When were these in