| ▲ | nullhole an hour ago | |
> The Mali trip was notable for random types firing weapons at our aircraft while we were running lines with 80m ground clearance - we had to armour the cockpit bellies and stuff the fuel tanks with mesh. Datums can get dull fast but there's adventure inherent in surveying. You should write a book, or at least a chapter or two. "Nadir Point" has a nice ring to it... | ||
| ▲ | defrost an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> "Nadir Point" has a nice ring to it... Mine Camps .. with a Long S ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s ) once appealed, but I fear getting cancelled. There was always something happening, whether it was shipboard fires in the disputed parts of South China Sea or India / Pakistan engaging in cross border nuclear tests in our survey zone. That last one followed several of us about for years, anytime we crossed a US controlled border they got interested in how we knew what they didn't ... * https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/13/world/nuclear-anxiety-the... .. look, we just happened to be there with a 42 litre doped Sodium Iodide crystal pack and 256 channel gamma ray spectrometer just as the tests kicked off ... | ||