New York Cubic

davidkendall:

Quite the close-up, right?  Here’s the story:

Juliana International Airport serves the Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin. The airport is famous for its short runway — at only 2,433 metres (7,980 ft), it is barely long enough for heavy jets to land. Therefore, incoming airplanes approaching the island on short final for Runway 10 have to fly extremely low, passing only 10-20 meters (30-60 ft.) over relaxing tourists on Maho. Beach.

Click through for more interesting shots of these jumbo jets buzzing the beach.

(via acidcow.com)

sundrows:

purzlbaum:

maniacalrage:

Landings by Branislav Kropilak

Nice series of photos of time-lapsed airplane landings at night.

Absolutely stunning.

saltyeyess:

Gibraltar Airport is a very unusual airport. It is the only one where the runway actually intersects with a major highway. When a plane has to take off or land, traffic is shut down.

The only less optimal solution for this problem that I could come up with: whenever traffic comes, a helicopter comes and picks up the individual cars and brings them to the other side. This is even better because now there is a chance of the helicopter collid… whatever SMART!

applearts:

via blog-imgs-32-origin.fc2.com

I’d like to photoshop some soy sauce on that!

Pasadena’s got Pow!

NYTimes Lens Blog: European Balloon Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

phibes:

Frozen Cherries (via dl.ziza.ru)

This is what I think of under the Californian sun after an hour of fighting against bicyclists for the street around the Rose Bowl. THIS IS IT!

mabelmoments:

Jammu, Kashmir: Workers prepare kite threads on the side of a road. The kite string, or dorr, is made of crushed glass, glue and egg on the thread to make it strong enough to hold the kite. Photograph: Jaipal Singh/EPA