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Aviation VORs

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Navigation Aids

For many years part of our business was developing flight simulation software.

Our development activities had us traveling to many airports, airshows, exhibitions and museums to conduct research for various software projects. The term VORs is a generic name for navigational aids that are used by aircraft. Essentially a VOR provides electronic signals to aircraft instruments that guide it along the intended route.

These photographs of VORs are part of the activities that later turned into flight simulation products.

Looking back this was an interesting and very enjoyable part of our business.

We hope that you enjoy these photos.

Window Seat Please

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Birds Eye View

For business travel, I’ve endured my share of airplane flights.

I’m not one to watch the airline’s inflight movies so to help pass the time onboard I spend a good amount of time looking out of the window at the earth below.

In years past it wasn’t easy to determine the flight path so I would take a photo of the scenery and try to identify the location at a later time. Nowadays it’s fairly easy to track the flight path using your phone’s GPS feature.

Sometimes the weather and the lighting wasn’t always cooperative for photography so some of the photos are “rough”. Anyway, below is a collection of some of the sights that I’ve enjoyed on a few of my flights.

Airports from up high

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Looking down from above

While flying, my preference is to sit by a window so I can see the earth’s sights.

I’ve flown enough that I can recognize when the aircraft is passing over an airport. One of my “hobbies” is to photograph and then later try to identify the airport.

Below are a some of those airports which I’ve been able to photograph. For the aviation buffs among you, I’ve included the airport identifier.

If you’re interested in how I am able to identify airports, here’s a link to my other site where I show you a few of the techniques: https://stayfocusedpress.com/?p=13070