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Takeoff from Albuquerque - heading east.
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Surprisingly, the plane breaks right - south - and heads over Sandia Base, which would have been anathema during the Cold War.
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The multi-million dollar Trestle facility, used, among other things, to subject B-52s to EMP pulses, just for grins.
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Looking west.
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More Sandia Base.
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Arroyo
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The plane pivots at the Meadowview subdivision, east of Los Lunas, and begins heading westward.
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West end of Meadowview and east side of Los Lunas, with the Sandia Mountains in the distance.
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Los Lunas, NM, looking north along the Rio Grande River.
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Los Lunas, NM, looking north along the Rio Grande River.
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Interesting solar panels, or something, south of the volcano that's west of Los Lunas.
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Rio Puerco River, with the ruin known as Pottery Mound in the foreground.
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Valencia County landfill is down here.
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Cloud layers make themselves known.
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Just north of the Sunrise Skiing Resort in eastern Arizona.
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Imperial Valley.
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Where the desert meets the agricultural land on the west side of the Imperial Valley.
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Colorado Desert west of the Imperial Valley.
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Wind farm east of San Diego.
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Mt. Laguna and Interstate 8.
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Skyview Road area east of San Diego.
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The landmark San Miguel Mountain, where aircraft gather before filing one-by-one to Lindbergh Field in San Diego.
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Sweetwater Reservoir, east of San Diego.
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x
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Balboa Park and the Naval Medical Center.
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San Diego Aerospace Museum.
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Interstate 5.
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Landing at Lindbergh Field.
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