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PeoViejo

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4. Water Towers

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 02:13 PM

Nov 2013

Back in the 70's, I used to ferry aircraft to get flight time. Some of them had the barest legal instrumentation, so that left out landing at large airports to refuel. I used to follow the railroad tracks and use the Water Towers in small towns to maintain my bearings. It was a lot of fun, landing at the small air strips that serviced those small communities. It's a part of America that few people get to see.

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The Forgotten Giant Arrows that Guide you Across America [View all] oneshooter Nov 2013 OP

Neat story Oneshooter. Thanks for posting it. I love these type of things. n-t Logical Nov 2013 #1

Clueless libodem Nov 2013 #2

That is pretty cool. Would love to find a forgotten arrow. TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #3

Water Towers PeoViejo Nov 2013 #4

I call that "Water Tower Navigation" Major Nikon Nov 2013 #12

Fast delivery by plane predated airfields so postal planes were often amphibious to land in lakes. Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2013 #5

Very interesting... ReRe Nov 2013 #6

that is really cool nt arely staircase Nov 2013 #7

also that is a really cool site overall. nt arely staircase Nov 2013 #8

Thnak you for this story TeamPooka Nov 2013 #9

What an awesome site all-around. Codeine Nov 2013 #10

Reminds me of when a I saw plane fly in so low as I was driving on a highway rocktivity Nov 2013 #11

so cool.... BlancheSplanchnik Nov 2013 #13