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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 10, 2013
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It’s fine to be down on the farm when the wind is gusting behind a summer cold front. Dwight, Indiana is not the largest airport around (the pavement is only 21’ wide and 2360’ feet long), but it is surrounded by green grass and cornfields, and it is one of the friendliest. Full service fuel is available, but bring cash or checks: those new fangled credit cards haven’t caught on out in the country.
Date Taken:
Aug 10, 2013
Place Taken:
Dwight, IL
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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532, Oshkosh 2013
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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When the clouds start dropping down low, it’s good to be flying up a big river that is even lower.
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Down on the River
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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Down on the river is an old military facility. The Savannah Army Depot was used during the 20th century for storage, testing, refurbishment and disposal of various munitions. It was closed in 1995. They are still trying to clean up the messes left behind (metals, pesticides, explosives, lead-based paint chips, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)). It would be a tempting site for exploration except for the possibility of encountering old grenades and high explosive shells.
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Bunkering Down
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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In theory I should have been on the good, cold side of the front. The frontal boundary wasn’t as nicely defined as the graphics on the weather map.
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Coming Down Gray
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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A brisk, cold splash to rinse the bugs off the hull of the show plane seemed a reasonable excuse at the time.
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Down for a Splash
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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Sand surfing? Local recreation on dredge spoil.
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Downhill Slide
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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High bluffs bound the Mississippi River around Prairie Du Chien, WI. This is part of the “Driftless Area”, a Paleozoic plateau bypassed in the last major ice age (the Wisconsinan glaciation). The old Paleozoic sedimentary rocks are typically covered by wind-blown sediments, “loess”.<br /><br />The area is said to be “driftless” because there is a remarkable absence of glacial debris from the last ice age. The massive ice sheet radically altered the geography of most of the land north of the Ohio River. For some reason, however, the gigantic bulldozer bypassed the Driftless Area.<br />
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Down by the farms
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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Dan Nickens - Aug 10,2013
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The Wisconsin landscape in summer is mostly spectacularly green with just a few golden highlights. It is a delight to fly across. Until you get close to Oshkosh and the aerial zoo.
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Low Down to Oshkosh
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Wayne Nagy - Aug 10,2013
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Great pictures...as usual, Dan... How many hundreds of pictures do you take to get the <br />prizes??
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Dan Nickens - Aug 11,2013
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How many hundreds? I don’t know. I don’t count them, but the easy <br />answer would be “lots”. The real answer would be, “it depends”.<br /><br />The number of pictures to get the “prizes” is simple: “None!” The prizes <br />aren’t the pictures.<br /><br />At the beginning of this journey no pictures were shot. Lack of <br />subjects? No. Lack of inspiration? Yes. <br /><br />A delayed departure. An irritating host of electronic deficiencies. A <br />focus on the mission (“The airplane must get to Oshkosh, undamaged, <br />in new condition”). No scratches from beaching. No dings from off-<br />airport adventures. No blown off wings from running into raging <br />storms. A persistent weather system lying in wait across the middle of <br />the country. An old familiarity from a well worn flight path.<br /><br />Can you see all the spectacular beauty unfolding below the wings if you <br />are looking at everything else? Not so much.<br /><br />Then, suddenly, the path to completing the primary mission is clear. <br />Then eyes can wander. Then the camera can come out.<br /><br />Even then, how many prizes are there? Too many. They are <br />everywhere. Only a continuous stream of impossibly high definition <br />panoramic and macro videos could possibly do the under wing world <br />justice. There’s not enough storage space in all the computers in the <br />world to hold them.<br /><br />There is, however, a sporting limitation to aerial picture taking. It’s only <br />fair game to shoot something that wanders into the flight path. To <br />deviate for a picture just isn’t part of the game. Flying is the thing. <br />Splashing into remote places from the air is the bonus. Deviate for a <br />fair cloud? Yes! Deviate for blue water? Yes? Deviate for a picture? <br />No! Pictures aren’t that important. They are a distant consideration.<br /><br />Even at 75 mph the sights pass too fast for serious photography. Only <br />seconds are available to capture complex images. Sure, if it is <br />something rare or extraordinary, a flat loop is in order: first to linger for <br />adequate appreciation; second to imprint the scene in memory; lastly to <br />catch a picture. Deviate for a picture: “Never!” It wouldn’t be sporting.<br /><br />So, lots of compromises are made. Only enough photos are taken to <br />remind me what an amazing trip it is. That may be many hundreds, or <br />it may be just one.<br /><br />Ah, well, in the end it is never enough. So, I’ll just have to do it all over <br />again. And again. As many times as I can.<br /><br />After all this over-thinking, I'd reckon the best answer to your question, <br />Wayne, one not filled with extraneous musings, is just “lots”.<br />
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