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Photo ID: 0809368
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Overview of the Minden-Tahoe Airport after a recent snowfall. The shot is looking North towards Reno which had just received the most snow in 100 years. |
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Photo ID: 0809170
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Photo ID: 0800163
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N794G Wide angle view of the long wing span on this glider. |
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Photo ID: 0754848
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Views: 3543
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Thermalling over the Minden-Tahoe airport with another glider below. |
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Photo ID: 0687448
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Views: 11688
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N4692A / 48 (cn 726-7247) Minden-Tahoe Aviation's immaculate Neptune firebomber, "Tanker 48," basks in the sun at its home base, surrounded by authentic maintenance clutter-this aircraft works for its living, or at least it did until the USFS decided this year not to renew its contract. |
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Photo ID: 0415653
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Views: 2327
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N103MG (cn 33983-K-216) We are on the base leg for Runway 30, ending a great day of soaring. Even though we never lost sight of the airport, we were in the air continuously for 2.5 hours. Our max altitude was 12,000 feet MSL. Thanks, Pat, for a fun (and HOT) day of flying...even though you didn't let me fly! :-) |
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Photo ID: 0413383
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Photo ID: 0413382
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N925G (cn 5587) With Piper Pawnee tow plane ready to take up the next glider. |
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Photo ID: 0413381
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N103MG (cn 33983-K-216) My friend Pat is about to take me on my first glider flight in this airplane. |
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Photo ID: 0413380
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Minden-Tahoe Airport, on the eastern side of Lake Tahoe. Built in 1942 as a military training base, today, this non-towered airport is home to many corporate and general aviation aircrafts, fire bombers, and gliders. |
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Photo ID: 0281032
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N393WA An L-39 at Minden-Tahoe Airport during the weekend of the Reno Air Races. The Reno Air Races recently added a new class of race which allows L-39s to compete. Don't know if this one raced. |
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Photo ID: 0281031
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Views: 3433
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N377SF (cn 750-0068) Steve Fossett's Citation X on the apron at Minden-Tahoe Airport. Mr. Fossett is in town gaining experience in flying gliders in the wave for his record setting attempt in Omarama, New Zealand. The current altitude record in a glider is 49,009 ft. MSL. Mr. Fossett hopes to eventually reach an altitude of 100,000 ft. MSL using mountain and stratospheric wave. If you search for N877SF, you will see one of the Stemme S-10 motorgliders that Mr. Fossett is using to explore the wave over the Sierra Nevadas. |
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Photo ID: 0280639
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N8578L A Piper Pawnee at Minden-Tahoe Airport. These modified agricultural planes are used as tow planes for gliders. |
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Photo ID: 0280638
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N71Z (cn TC-245) A Metroliner parked at Minden-Tahoe Airport. This plane is registered to Suncoast Media Inc. Could it be that they are in town to film Steve Fossett's attempts to set a new altitude record in a glider? I don't know, merely speculation. |
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Photo ID: 0274757
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N790G A Grob-103A Twin on final approach to Runway 30 at Douglas County Airport at Minden, Nevada. |
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