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Carniceros (iv)
Once airborne, the old Commandos have to climb near their service ceiling to cross the Andean Range, which for lack of power they do at a mountain pass, cramped between much higher mountain walls. From there it is just 30 kms from arctic glaciers into the tropical rainforest. Somewhere between 6000 meters and 800 meters altitude, a runway had to be cut out of a mountain slope. Limited space meant to built it with a bend in the middle, so landing and starting airplanes had to go around a curve.
(photo: The maintenance area where the mechanic's families live.)
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Carniceros (iii)
All kinds of oil, avgas and hydraulic fluids find its way out of every gap and results in getting oneself and the underlying soil soaked in dirty lube oil. The unsurfaced cargo maintenance area is a completely mess, and you walk through a potage of various petro fluids.
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Carniceros (ii)
Especially the 18 cylinders are highly stressed. They live in an environment, where their outside basks in air at -40C, and inside they handle hot and flaming gasses. Cylinder heads respond by cracking. Other parts break off, like exhaust valves within a cylinder which are squeezed between the piston and the head. Changing a broken cylinder head above your head are tedious affairs involving stripping off the air baffles, ignition components, fuel injection lines, exhaust stacks and manifold intake pipes.
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Carniceros (i)
Carniceros (butchers) have a flying license and can take some of the rusting metal of the corrosion corner of the Aeropuerto International de La Paz to fetch meat grown in Bolivia's Lowlands.
For this short journey mechanics have to patch up 60 year old wiring, hydraulics, electrics and a pair of 18 cylinder Curtiss Wright R-2800-34 Double Wasp piston engines. United Airlines may use adhesive tape to mend holes in their Boeings, but here at the butchery, it is old school welding, riveting and screwing until these metal hulks are darned into airworthy condition.
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Laguna Santa Rosa III
Probably the most ethereal, remote, superlunary, highest, surreal, lonesome camping spot anywhere in any National Park. A BBQ, table, refuge and loo in the middle of nothing. And this vista.
Located at 3800 m altitude in the Parque Nacional Nevado Tres Cruces in Chile's Region III Atacama.
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Laguna Santa Rosa II
Probably the most ethereal, remote, superlunary, highest, surreal, lonesome camping spot anywhere in any National Park. A BBQ, table, refuge and loo in the middle of nothing. And this vista.
Located at 3800 m altitude in the Parque Nacional Nevado Tres Cruces in Chile's Region III Atacama.
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Laguna Santa Rosa I
Probably the most ethereal, remote, superlunary, highest, surreal, lonesome camping spot anywhere in any National Park. A BBQ, table, refuge and loo in the middle of nothing. And this vista.
Located at 3800 m altitude in the Parque Nacional Nevado Tres Cruces in Chile's Region III Atacama.
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Temple of Bacchus Interior
Roman Temple of Bacchus (looking from this temple's doorway into the main hall ). The cella is richly decorated with fluted columns.The temple is part of the ancient Roman town of Baalbek near modern Baalbek town in the Beeka valley, Lebanon.
World Cultural Heritage
[ ph.472 ] - 1984 - Baalbek
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The Edge of the Temple
Roman Temple of Bacchus, the smallest of Baalbek. Looking from the NW corner inside the portico with its colossal columns that run around the temple. The temple is part of the ancient Roman town of Baalbek near modern Baalbek town in the Beeka valley, Lebanon
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Temple of Bacchus
Roman Temple of Bacchus, the smallest of Baalbek in the Beekaa Valley of the Lebanon. Looking from the east to the southern row of columns and the entrance.
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Stefan Sonntag has been a member since 7 April 2008 and goes by zerega.
Currently in Munich.
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