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One Chance

8/6/2015

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The Greater Boston Soaring Club has been using Sterling Airport as its base for years.  Tonight I spent an hour and 375 photos watching the gliders lift off and land. There is a single tow plane that pulls a glider into the clouds using a rather skimpy nylon rope. When the glider is at an appropriate altitude, the glider pilot will disconnect.  To see them land a few feet away is not what grabs you. What stays with you is the sound as they approach, Open your mouth a bit and gently breath out - that is the sound they make. Stealth!  And then to know they have one chance to hit the landing. Just one chance. Although they take off from a narrow strip of black-top, they land quietly on the grass. 
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Nikon D610, 1/1000 second at F/22, ISO 400, 28mm (28-300mm) - 4049
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    I am Robert McKay Jones,  a photographer from Sterling, Massachusetts and North Fort Myers, FL.  I take photographs almost every day.  I post my favorites here.

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