Tag:desert
I spent a fair bunch of time trying to title today’s photo before settling on ‘approaching sunset’. This was taken somewhere in western Libya in the first half of 1990.
Today I’ve a different angle on yesterday’s photo that I’ve title, ‘Dozing Off’. It better shows what was in front of the bulldozer as he cut a trail down the escarpment for us.
So, after several weeks and several false starts my first book is now available! You can preview and order it below. The ‘Lady Be Good’ by Richard Davis | Make Your Own Book I decided to use the Lady Be Good as my first book as I still find this to be a compelling story all these years later. In short, in 1943 a B-24D Liberator bomber took off on it’s first mission of the war and never returned. No […]
When I first went to Libya in 1984 I was an ‘Assistant Seismologist’. My job function was to determine the static corrections needed to apply to the seismic data so it all made sense in the processing cycle. To do this we had a couple of Mayhew 1000 drilling rigs mounted on Belgian MOL trucks. They’d go out to the location we directed and drill typically a 10 cm diameter hole to a depth of up to 100 meters. I’d […]
In 1990-91 I was fortunate enough to be assigned to work in the Calanscio sand sea in the Libyan Desert. Fortunate because a little to the east (in those days) lay the wreckage of the ‘Lady Be Good’, a WWII era Liberator Bomber. The plane failed to return to Suluq airbase after the crew’s first combat mission to bomb Naples on April 4, 1943. The wreckage was discovered from the air on May 15, 1959 and visited on the ground […]
