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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Flight From Albuquerque to San Diego - Feb. 24, 2024


Takeoff from Albuquerque - heading east.

Surprisingly, the plane breaks right - south - and heads over Sandia Base, which would have been anathema during the Cold War.

The multi-million dollar Trestle facility, used, among other things, to subject B-52s to EMP pulses, just for grins.

Looking west.

More Sandia Base.

Arroyo

The plane pivots at the Meadowview subdivision, east of Los Lunas, and begins heading westward.

West end of Meadowview and east side of Los Lunas, with the Sandia Mountains in the distance.

Los Lunas, NM, looking north along the Rio Grande River.

Los Lunas, NM, looking north along the Rio Grande River.

Interesting solar panels, or something, south of the volcano that's west of Los Lunas.

Rio Puerco River, with the ruin known as Pottery Mound in the foreground.

Valencia County landfill is down here.

Cloud layers make themselves known.

Just north of the Sunrise Skiing Resort in eastern Arizona.

Imperial Valley.

Where the desert meets the agricultural land on the west side of the Imperial Valley.

Colorado Desert west of the Imperial Valley.

Wind farm east of San Diego.

Mt. Laguna and Interstate 8.

Skyview Road area east of San Diego.

The landmark San Miguel Mountain, where aircraft gather before filing one-by-one to Lindbergh Field in San Diego.

Sweetwater Reservoir, east of San Diego.

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Balboa Park and the Naval Medical Center.

San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Interstate 5.

Landing at Lindbergh Field.

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