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Round 3 from South America
Here are the final round of pictures from South America. These are all from December 2004, so I'm a little behind in putting them up. As a result, I have forgotten most of the stuff that I would have put in to explain where and what they were. These first few pictures are from a walk down towards La Boca and San Telmo.
When walking from La Boca back to the hotel, the most direct route goes through San Telmo, as seen above, and then through the region where the capital buildings are. These are pictures of several of the government buildings, including the president's residence and the central post office.
These pictures are on the other side of the hotel from the previous set. The art museum is near the Recoletta area, and these pictures are all from that neighborhood. The big flower actually opens and closes hydraulically, but I never saw it closed. The pink columns are from the art museum, and of course it was fascinating to see objects that were so many centuries old. It is neat to think of all of the history and uncertainty that the subjects of the portraits have seen, including natural disasters, uprisings, and wars that could have threatened their futures.
Here are more pictures of flying enroute. Most of these are over Urugay, while the cloud pictures are mostly over Brazil.
Here are some pictures from the ramp in Campinas Brazil. The Fedex DC-10's Captain was on the outbound portion of his last trip before retirement, and they were having a party that night at the Seo Rosa for him.
One of these pictures was actually selected by http://avweb.com as a runner up in the picture of the week contest. The control tower has giant strings of lights that are arranged in the shape of a christmas tree when viewed from the road. But in our parking spot, the strings are in line and it looks like some kind of death ray laser.
Here are a few pictures of the area between Puerto Madero and the Retiro station. The clock tower was South America's tallest reinforced concrete structure when it was built long ago, but now it is dwarfed by all of its neighboring skyscrapers. Several of these pictures are from the vantage points in the tower. The last is a picture of the monument in San Martin Plaza, which is very close to the hotel.
The next set of pictures is from a trip to the other side of town. I took the green subway to the Plaza Italiana and then walked to the Newberry airport. The arched rail bridge is supporting the railway that goes to Tigre, as noted in a previous picture gallery. The VW folks seemed to be gathering for some kind of show. The last picture appears to be a Fokker F-28 with Argentina Navy markings. The F-28 is only one model number off from the F-27 that I fly, but it is a completely different airplane. It doesn't seem intuitive that the F-50 would be more like the F-27 than the F-28, but that's airplane manufacturers for you.
These are all pictures from a trip to the Buenos Aires Zoo that I made with Tim. Some of the animals are quite familiar, while others, as you can see, are a bit strange.
Here are pictures from aboard the boats that I showed you in round 2. I thought it was well worth 1 Peso (about 30 cents) to tour this 130 year-old training boat.
Here is another trip to the capital buildings. The next to last is a building that is on one of their coins as the first estabilshed government building, but yet it is decorated with lots of spray-painted grafiti. You would think that a protester would have more pride in his national monuments, but who knows what makes people like that tick.
Here are some pictures from the ramp in Brazil. For those who know what a charters calendar is, notice that there is one on the wall there. The repair pictures are from the tail of a plane that was damaged by a set of rolling stairs during a strong wind. It took about a week, but the quality of the work and the low price were reported to be quite exceptional by our domestic maintenance folks.
These are pictures from Christmas Eve. We usually depart Argentina in the middle of the night, but on this rare occasion we were able to leave a few hours later in order to correspond with the holiday schedule. The sunrise was quite vivid, and seeing the other planes was also something new.
Since our departure was at daybreak, we actually had some traffic to wait for before takeoff. Usually there wasn't anyone else who wanted to land when we were ready to depart, and if there was, we wouldnt' be able to see them. The rest of the pictures are over the river and over Uruguay. As you can see, it is a pretty sparsely populated country once you get away from the big centers.
These last two pictures are over Melo, which is where one of our planes is. They had an inflight fire, and this was the only airport they were able to find in the middle of the night. It has been stripped of all of the parts that the company wanted, and the rest will probably sit there in perpetuity, or until someone finds something to do with it. It might make a nice tool shed with a little repair work.
If you want to see even more pictures, go visit Kjell's site. It is here:
http://groups.msn.com/vikingpilot/fokkerf27.msnw
He is another First Officer that has been down there for a much longer time, and he has some really great shots.
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