Monthly:July 2013

After a Hard Landing

Daily Photo – A Hard Landing

Now jumping back to the Calanscio Sand Sea in eastern Libya in 1991 for a photo of a hard landing.

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Learning to Fly

Daily Photo – Learning to Fly

For today’s photo I’m going back to 1990 and the sand dunes I worked in western Libya and where one of our drivers was learning to fly.

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Desert Mechanics

Daily Photo – Desert Mechanics

Here’s one of our desert mechanics and his helper under the water tanker in yesterday’s photo.

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Desert Workshop

Daily Photo – Desert Workshop

Today’s photo is of our mechanics’ desert workshop. Here these five or six guys would keep out fleet of 30 or more Land Rovers and trucks running – plus the generators!

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Cleared for Takeoff

Daily Photo – Cleared for Takeoff

In today’s photo, a migrating bird (I’m not an ornithologist) stands on our landing strip, wings outstretched as if cleared for takeoff.

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The Last Load BW

Daily Photo – The Last Load

Two versions today, a black and white and a color rendering of the same scene titles, ‘The Last Load’.

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