aharon Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Shalom and greetings all my pals, Presenting last minute emergency Cuban Missile Crisis patrol along western coast of Florida from KPIE St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport with its largest U.S. Coast Guard air base in USA located 9 miles north of downtown St. Petersburg, Florida to KEYW Key West International Airport located 2 miles east of the main commercial center of Key West. On airborne on climb to Fl210 after take off from runway 36 with background view of highway 60 also known as Courtney Campbell Causeway seen behind the tail showing waters of Old Tampa Bay on right side of the highway and waters of Mobbly Bay on left side of the highway Making 180 degree right turn passing through clouds Passing KTPA Tampa International Airport located six miles west of downtown Tampa Still on climb to F210 flying back to pass waters of Old Tampa Bay Still on climb past the airport of departure Flying past Pinellas Park suburb located north of city of St Petersburg where you can see two highways below the plane where the highway under left wing is highway route number 275 and the highway under right wing is highway route number 19 also known as 34th Street North. If you can see square shaped park off the tip of right wing, it is called Helen S. Howarth Community park I HONESTly have no idea what causeway the plane was passing!! Passing bridge route number 798 connecting Coquina Beach seen behind left wing and longboat key seen in front of wing Cruising at F210 looking out for any Soviet or Cuban submarine or ship Cruising along west coast of Florida Because of regulations of the forums not permitting more than 10 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink seen below to view rest of the emergency patrol. Here is the hyperlink: https://calclassic.proboards.com/thread/10014/emergency-cuban-missile-crisis-patrol Thank you for viewing. Stay tuned for next exciting flight report. Regards, Aharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Nice P3 shots Aharon!! Truly the US and many other countries got their money's worth out of that design!! Michael PS If anyone hasn't tried the hyperlink posted here by Aharon, I suggest you do. There's a ton of good info there and of course Wikipedia as well! Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downwind66 Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Nice, Aharon, I like older props, and this one is special with the Navy markings, I like it! Thanks for sharing! - Rick :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 Beautifully done as usual Aharon. Great shots and a fine narrative. :cool: :cool: :D Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDSTRAKA Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Another fine addition! :pilot: Senior Rookie Bragware: FSX Gold - Acceleration | HP Omen Obelisk Desktop | Intel Core i7 3.2 Ghz |16GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 1TB HD | 256 GB SSD (Gaming Computer) REX Worldwide Airports HD AS16 + ASCA ORBX Global BASE ORBX Freeware Airports ORBX HD Trees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aharon Posted July 5, 2020 Author Share Posted July 5, 2020 Thanks to all for very very kind words. It is much appreciated If anyone hasn't tried the hyperlink posted here by Aharon, I suggest you do. There's a ton of good info there Rupert is absolutely correct on this. Regards, Aharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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