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Taxiing Through Clouds (No Kidding)

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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting recreation of real life Braniff flight of  DC-8-62's arrival at KCOS City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport located 6 miles  southeast of Colorado Springs, Colorado that is the second busiest commercial service airport in the state

Seconds before touchdown on runway 35R after two circles waiting for turn to land due to heavy commuter traffic between KCOS and KDEN

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TOUCHDOWN

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Exciting tire smoke still kept spewing while front landing gear was gliding down slowly in most graceful manner (notice clouds on ground level in background

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Front landing gear finally making runway contact

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Braking down with marvelous view of mountains of May Peak and Kineo Mountain

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Exiting from runway 35R into taxiway

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Entering into clouds at ground level during taxi to gate

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Taxiing through middle of cloud on ground level to gate

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Emerging out of clouds

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Still on long taxi with background of clouds

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Approaching gate with background of same mountains

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Thank you for viewing.  Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

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Just fantastic are these pictures! Love the long 62 series...
Thanks for posting.

Those are not clouds. Those are "areas of locally reduced visibility". 

Kerry W. Gipe
Savannah Georgia, USA
US FAA A&P / Commercial Pilot Multi Engine Land IFR

Your talent is a gift from God. How you use your talent is your gift back to God.

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P_7878,  thanks for your kind words.

 

GACSavannah,  those are clouds to ME  🙂  Thank you for viewing my screenshots and please enjoy my past and future screenshots.

Regards,

Aharon

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