Yes, bombs. The kind they drop from warplanes. Nothing actually exploded, but I did get some exercize defusing a dilemma. In my research addiction Google-roaming, I came upon an article about the IML...Made sense because of the size of the engines and the cockpit relative to it all. While it's impossible to learn everything about something from just one feature, there are ways to learn quite a lot

I only got one shot of this plane.  I didn't realize it when I took the shot that this wasn't the usual Air Tractor that works the area.  This plane is a 1974 Cessna A188B AGtruck.

I got woken up this morning by a plane buzzing the house. I'm pretty sure it's the same Air Tractor that I've taken pictures of in the past .  He was spraying the corn fields just to the south of us. ...pull up at the last second to avoid the barn.  I missed it last year, but my roommate assures me it was quite spectacular. If the embedded player doesn't work, try this direct link to YouTube.

And all the other aviation buffs on my friends list... http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/index.html Link courtesy of rjbartrop .

The first route for this is CDG-JFK. The second route will be CDG-NRT, and I'm kind of hoping to get to Japan again early next year. Now I'm hoping that I will also get onto an A380 earlier than planned - our trip to next year's Worldcon in Melbourne is being planned to make sure we get to go on one. And, of course, I want to see a photo of it landing at St. Maarten.

As always, clicky for full size. Creative sign outside the Louisville Art Gallery. I don't think this coal chute is going to do much good.  The date stamped on it reads 1927.  The sidewalk is... Crop duster, heading this way. Look out!  Incoming! There are several of these around here.  The individual flowers are quite small, but they make a cluster about 6-9 inches across.

Iran passenger airliner crashes, all 150 on board feared dead Caspian Airlines Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154 crashed in the country's northwestern city of Gazvin today, and all 150 people on board are believed to be dead, English-language Press TV reported. Jeez what's the matter with planes these days? They are dropping out of the air like flies with swine flu!

Here are some photos from New Mexico. Mikhail - I was thinking about your abstract style as I shot these and trying to see if I could do something similar.                    

In fully loaded flight, AI stuffed in 3 extra persons This was that flight to Mangalore whose door was damaged when the plane was moved before the aerobridge in Bombay. While investigating this they found that the flight had carried 3 extra passengers. Not bad huh! These are bona fide fair paying passengers.

Фото с внутренностями острова выкладывать мне лень, так что ограничимся околосамолетными. Брал с собой два аппарата - говно зеркалку и старую мыльницу, чтобы контрабандой снимать в аэропортах окружающую...словить то, что словилось, а словились баклажаны, которые собирались в Турцию. Теперь буду думать, какое я хочу стекло вместо kitа - чтобы и ему на замену, и с длинным концом, и занедорого.