The Trailing Edge
Painting on a big, beautiful canvas.
Regular readers of this endnote in each issue will likely not miss our pithy commentary on some earthly matter or another. They’re tough to write, so we’re happy for the little ‘holiday’. We’d like to think it’s the boss giving a hoot, but actually, he can’t take that credit. No kudos for him. Not even one.
Rather, it’s just that sometimes a picture (or a series of pictures, as it turns out) more-or-less takes our breath away. They speak for themself. To wit, these extraordinary images taken by Verena Schwab at Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria on June 4, 2022. So we’re simply going to let the slinky thermal ship paint the clouds-at-sunset canvas and we’ll try not to clutter things up with more verbiage.
Anything so beautiful is often a result of a team effort. In this case, Verena took the picture of pilot Hermann Haas’s ship at altitude in the sunset. She passed along the pictures to Peter Kolp to post on Facebook. In turn, Bill Kuhlman spotted the pictures and alerted us to them, at which point we sought permission to run them here, which were fortunately granted. Our deepest thanks to all of these folks for pulling all the necessary levers to make this happen by deadline.
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That’s it for this month…now get out there and fly!
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