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Cockpit of the Antonov An-2 at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Creve Coeur Airport (1H0). This remarkable STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft is the largest single-engine biplane ever produced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-2 http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/ |
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This is an SEM Nano Gigapan of an ant holding a fly in its mandible. This image came about when we found some ants this morning in the kitchen and decided to take them into work to image. While looking for other cool things to image I also stumbled across a very small fly that was dead on the table (you might not believe me, but the house we're staying at is actually really nice, and at least appears very clean). Lacking another container for putting samples into, we dropped the fly in with the live, albeit confused ants, saying "they probably wont eat it." Seconds after touching the bottom of the container, the ant you see here snatched the fly up and proceeded to hold on to it for not only the commute into the office, but also during a stint in the freezer, a move from the container to the SEM stage, and then while in a vacuum. That is dedication.
The ant and fly are magnified 400x and this image is composed of 288 pictures taken with the SEM. The ant is of the species Aphaenogaster occidentalis. You can see optical images of it on ant web. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=occidentalis&genus=aphaenogaster&project=calants This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take big pictures of small things. Read more on the project blog at http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com and see more of our work on the gigapan site at http://gigapan.org/profiles/mollyg" |
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Hangar 3 of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Creve Coeur Airport (1H0), a hidden treasure of St. Louis, MO. Many of these vintage aircraft are in flying condition. Hangar tours ($10, weekends) are a must for plane fans anywhere near the St. Louis area.
http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/ |
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La estación de vuelo libre de El Yelmo es es una de las zonas más importantes del sur de Europa para el vuelo libre y especialmente el parapente, aquí se celebra todos los años el Festival Internacional de Cine del Aire, con ocasión de este festival es facil ver más de 200 parapentes volando al mismo tiempo.
Esta zona de vuelo, es famosa entre otras cosas por las potentes restituciones que se forman, y bajo estas especiales condiciones aerológicas, muchos pilotos aterrizan después de la puesta de sol, este espectaculo se encuentra en estos momentos amenazado por un tendido eléctrico de alta tensión que se está instalando en estos momentos y que pasa muy próximo al lugar donde se celebra el festival, constituyendo un grave riesgo para los pilotos. Para hacer esta fotografía se ha utilizado 148 fotografías disparadas por una rotula motorizada llamada Automate 1.0, esta es la primera foto que hago con ella para probarla. |
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Esta es una vista desde Orito, en la que se puede ver el pueblo de Agost, las obras para el tren de alta velocidad, y al fondo, la zona de vuelo en parapente de Palomaret, desde donde se vuela habitualmente hasta Maigmo, ventos, Sierra del Cid, Peña Jijona.
Se puede ver que en el momento de la fotografía, las condiciones empiezan a ser buenas para el vuelo, con cumulos marcando las ascendencias y algunos parapentes ya han despegado. |
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Hangar 1 of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Creve Coeur Airport (1H0), a hidden treasure of St. Louis, MO. Many of these vintage aircraft are in flying condition. Hangar tours ($10, weekends) are a must for plane fans anywhere near the St. Louis area. |
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Me fly fishing a stream in Central Pennsylvania in October. |
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This is 96 pictures of a small fly magnified 500x using the Scanning Electron Microscope. |