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  2. Originally posted by Risto:Damn that last one just looks illegal!

    I just came back from u2's head master Remy, and snapped this about halfway back:

    Highway Gouda - The Hague
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    Fucked up the crop (was in a hurry):

    Sign post on bicycle road crossing. Just in the middle of triangle Rotterdam - Den Haag (The Hague) and Gouda (cheese and syrup waffles)
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    Great pics! Nice sunset

    PS. Gotta love how close is everything in the Netherlands. Here that distances between important cities would be x10 or more
  3. Originally posted by Risto:Damn that last one just looks illegal!

    I just came back from u2's head master Remy, and snapped this about halfway back:

    Highway Gouda - The Hague
    [image]

    Fucked up the crop (was in a hurry):

    Sign post on bicycle road crossing. Just in the middle of triangle Rotterdam - Den Haag (The Hague) and Gouda (cheese and syrup waffles)
    [image]


    Great pics, Chris, specially the first one! I really love the colours on this one!

  4. This one came really low. Lower than all the other planes on that day. People's reaction on the Sunset Bar (place where I took the picture) was a big "holly sh*t".
  5. @Aidan, thank you! I was on the bike but had to stop to make a quick shot of sun down

    @Sergio, if there was a bike sign for Amsterdam it would be probably around 75 km Utrecht maybe 50. It is a small country!
  6. Originally posted by AidanFormigoni:[..]

    This one came really low. Lower than all the other planes on that day. People's reaction on the Sunset Bar (place where I took the picture) was a big "holly sh*t".

    I still can't believe what I'm seeing. If I didn't know you, I would bet a lot of money it is photoshoped... It's so scary that it's actually amazing.
  7. What I dont get about Juliana airport is that they dont close the strip of beach. If not only for hearing damage, or the possibility to throw a handgranade up towards the plane. (Or release a small flock of birds just before the plane is about to land).
  8. Originally posted by Risto:What I dont get about Juliana airport is that they dont close the strip of beach. If not only for hearing damage, or the possibility to throw a handgranade up towards the plane. (Or release a birds just before the plane is about to land).

    I've thought about that too, expecially the noise, but perhaps the noise isn't so bad when a plane is landing because it can use its momentum, as opposed to when one is starting and is incredibly loud. Aidan?
  9. I think they land with some throttle to be able to abort landings. Especially at that airport since there is a mountain at the other side.
  10. Taking off is definitely much louder than landing, but it must be deafening anyway.

    And yeah, I hadn't thought of possible attacks from the beach - it's definitely more affordable than trying to sneak bombs or guns into a proper flight. Damn it's even scarier now
  11. I didn't post in here for some time now. Just didn't have time to take photos. Here are few new ones from the other night:









  12. Your photos are really amazing Yogi! You should post on this topic more often.

    About the plane question, there are some things that make them louder or not.

    First of all, biggest part of commercial jets land with almost no throttle, something between 10% and 20% depending on the plane, and during the final approach, before touchdown, pilots usually retard the thrust levers to idle postion (less than 10% of throttle), and they usually do it on that point where the plane is almost above the beach in this airport.

    Also, airplanes engines are much louder when you stand behind the plane (when you are on the ground, you can cleary realise it when a plane passes over your head). This happens because the hot air is compressed and accelerated inside the engine, and it goes out through a much smaller area than the one it came into the engine.

    So based on that, takeoffs are much louder than landings, specially in Juliana Airport, where you can stand right behind the plane.

    Also, in this airport, takeoffs are much dangerous to people standing on the beach. I'd say that landings are pretty spectacular, but they offer almost no danger to people, even if the pilotos are trying to fly very low over that fence. During the takeoffs, there are a lot of people standing on the beach, right behind the jet blast coming from the engines, and this can throw people away on the sand (actually, it happened when I was there...a woman standing on her feet was blown away and felt off rolling in the sand...I remeber seing some scratches in her arm). Also, the engines can thrwo a rock into you. I think it never happened, and I have to say that I loved the experience of being right behind a 757 engine, but it is a possibility.
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