Is this disconcerting?
Sep 23rd 2012, 8:31 am
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Is this disconcerting?
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Sep 23rd 2012, 3:19 pm
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Sep 23rd 2012, 3:23 pm
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Re: Is this disconcerting?
Nothing wrong with that, it's just the angle the pic was taken from.
Probably taken just at the start of the runway.
Probably taken just at the start of the runway.
Sep 23rd 2012, 3:29 pm
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Sep 23rd 2012, 3:36 pm
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Re: Is this disconcerting?
The lamp post is not that close to the aircraft.
In fact I think this pic was taken at the junction of the Al-Wakra road and the road that leads to the Marriot hotel.
It's right at the start of the runway, driven past it many times.
In fact I think this pic was taken at the junction of the Al-Wakra road and the road that leads to the Marriot hotel.
It's right at the start of the runway, driven past it many times.
Sep 23rd 2012, 3:43 pm
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Re: Is this disconcerting?
Well, when the photo was taken, it was on the road to Umm Said ( that long ago - well before Messaied, or what ever they call it this week)
Sep 23rd 2012, 3:59 pm
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Re: Is this disconcerting?
Al-Wakra is the small town you go through on the way from Doha to Messiaeed.
Um-Said = Messiaeed, it's one and the same place.
Um-Said = Messiaeed, it's one and the same place.
Sep 23rd 2012, 4:08 pm
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( Yeah, I know, I'm the ghost of christmas past!
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Sep 23rd 2012, 4:22 pm
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Re: Is this disconcerting?
When was the last time you got this close to Clock Square?
(This photo was taken in 1982...)http://britishexpats.com/forum/attac...1&d=1348417265
(This photo was taken in 1982...)http://britishexpats.com/forum/attac...1&d=1348417265
Sep 23rd 2012, 8:01 pm
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Re: Is this disconcerting?
Dammit. I've just gone on a youtube trail ending up with the first Space Shuttle launch in April 1981...
Sep 23rd 2012, 8:23 pm
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Oh, you bastard! I remember watching that on TV! It was somewhere about lunchtime GMT. Umm, come to think of it, what I remember is it landing.
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Sep 23rd 2012, 8:52 pm
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Top of my bucket list is going to Cape Canaveral.
Sep 23rd 2012, 9:20 pm
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