Awaiting takeoff

[P. J. Alling]

Like I said, the Vivitar 90-180mm flat field would make one hell of a 
club.  They let me fly with it all the time.  Must be your face...

frank theriault wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 6:37 AM, cbwaters <cbwaters at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>   
>> I was in Michigan again right after Thanksgiving for my sister's wedding(see
>> my earlier post for the funny photographer story).
>> Our plane home was delayed so we sat in the airport in Flint for a couple
>> hours I took this out the window while somebody else's plane home was
>> getting ready for takeoff.
>> K10 and FA 28-105.  I adjusted the white balance and may have upped the
>> sharpening a little in the conversion.
>> http://cwaters.smugmug.com/gallery/3930734#228209720
>>
>> By the way, they let me take my tripod as a carry-on.  Our big suitcase was
>> too heavy on check-in (odd because it actually had less stuff than when we
>> flew up...) They wanted us to take 5# out or pay a $50 overage charge.  The
>> first thing I thought of was the tripod so it came out.  Some other stuff
>> came out and was packed into the garment bags.  It wasn't until I was in the
>> line at security that I started to think about how many ways the tripod
>> could be used as a weapon...  I heard the screener say " Oh, that's a bunch
>> of camera lenses... and a really nice camera... tripod... ok, it's all
>> good."  I was pleased because I didn't know what we were going to do at that
>> point if they balked.
>>
>>     
>
> Cool shot.  I always thought that job (de-icing airplanes) would be
> one of the coldest jobs in the world.
>
> I haven't flown for over two years.  Last time it was with my bike,
> and I put my bike's U-lock in my carry-on so it wouldn't rattle around
> and hurt my bike (which was boxed and checked).  They confiscated it.
> Said I could use it as a "bludgeon".
>
> I tried to explain that a pen would make a better weapon than a lock,
> but the nice man disagreed.
>
> $40 down the tubes.
>
> Oh well.
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
>
>   


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