{"id":12762,"date":"2020-06-11T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12762"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:28:22","slug":"here-and-there-skywatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12762","title":{"rendered":"Here and There Skywatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was poking around the backside of the Tulsa International Airport last week. (You know old retired guys, we like poke around stuff.) These are just a few of the dozens of passenger aircraft that are parked on every spare space at the airport. I talked to a guy in the airline industry yesterday who said airline travel is down 85% from a year ago. Tell you what, I’m not getting on airplane until this pandemic has calmed down quite a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found this. I thought it was an old fuselage section. I put it on social media asking if anybody knew. One guy said it has been out there for at least twenty years that he knows about. A few people said that it was used for fire training. Another guy said that if was really a fuselage it would not have survived fire training because aluminum would melt. That made a lot of sense to me. He said further that the training fuselages are specially built out of steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So whatever it is, I don’t think it has been used for a long time and it might make a great geocache site. Except you know, even though I was not in the security perimeter of the airport I had the heebie geebies, I felt that I was being watched. I hate being stopped by cops or security guards and I would not like to put somebody else in that situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was going to add this to last week’s post. It is the not quite full Strawberry Moon. That’s me, a day late and a dollar short. But here it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As many of you know I retired recently. One of the perks of my job was being able to take photos out the windows. So here is a badly done shot, the last photo from my office building. But don’t worry…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got a drone, so as long as its not too windy and I am not in a drone no fly zone I can pop up and take photos any time I want. So hey, it all worked out for the good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m linking with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a>. Come join in the fun!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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