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    Home » Today’s Photo from Ted Grussing Photography: Flying high
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    Today’s Photo from Ted Grussing Photography: Flying high

    May 4, 2020No Comments
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    By Ted Grussing

    … every soaring pilots dream is to soar on wave such as formed these standing lenticular clouds that were forming behind the San Francisco Peaks NNW of Flagstaff last Friday. I went to the airport on check on Mariah late afternoon and looked to the NNE and saw these fantastic cloud formations. Forgot to check on the winds aloft when I got home, but they must have been smoking to get these perfectly articulated clouds. I have always enjoyed flying wave and frequently we have good wave conditions up here.

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    My first encounter with wave was over Cornville in 1998, when I was flying my PW-5 glider out of Sedona … it was my first encounter with it and it was waving from an airflow over Mingus Mountain. First of course there was the rotor which under ordinary circumstances is a character building experience and then into the wave. It was like going into the Twilight Zone … everything was dead quiet, no sense of motion, but the altimeter hand is like the second hand on a clock. I was climbing at more than 1200′ per minute and no sense of motion. Awesome! I have flown in it many times since, but the first time is very special.

    A link to explain wave conditions is to be found on Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave

    The world altitude record for a glider flying wave was set in September 2018 by the Airbus Perlan 2 glider, in Argentina … 76,124 feet. A link describing the Perlan Project can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlan_Project and the Perlan Project link itself is: https://perlanproject.org/blog/perlan-2018-first-flight

    A YouTube video of the flight is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmBoqvv0u5k

    A new week is underway … adventures are awaiting us … look for them and live for you are here now.

    Smiles,

    Sedona Gift Shop

    Ted

    A bird flies through the sky, and I fly with it. I am in
    each pearl of moisture sparkling in the sun. I lie lazy
    on the clouds. And I acknowledge my kinship with
    each winged thing.
     
    Peace lies over the world and over the world of my
    soul.
     
    — Max Ehrmann

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    The easiest way to reach Mr. Grussing is by email: ted@tedgrussing.com

    In addition to sales of photographs already taken Ted does special shoots for patrons on request and also does air-to-air photography for those who want photographs of their airplanes in flight. All special photographic sessions are billed on an hourly basis.

    Ted also does one-on-one workshops for those interested in learning the techniques he uses.  By special arrangement Ted will do one-on-one aerial photography workshops which will include actual photo sessions in the air.

    More about Ted Grussing …

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    The Symbolism of Jan. 6

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    Don’t mess with symbols. Just ask author Dan Brown’s character Robert Landon. The worth of symbols cannot be measured. Symbols make the world-go-round. Symbols carry the weight of a thousand words and meanings. Symbols represent reality boiled down to the bone. Symbols evoke profound emotions and memories—at a very primal level of our being—often without our making rational or conscious connections. They fuel our imagination. Symbols enable us to access aspects of our existence that cannot be accessed in any other way. Symbols are used in all facets of human endeavor. One can only feel sorry for those who cannot comprehend the government’s response to the breech of the capital on January 6, with many, even pundits, claiming it was only a peaceful occupation. Regardless if one sees January 6 as a full-scale riot/insurrection or simply patriotic Americans demonstrating as is their right, the fact is the individuals involved went against a symbol, and this could not be allowed or go unpunished. Read more→
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