46 Incredible Photos You May Not Have Seen Before.

Tickld.com ^ | July 29, 2014 | NA

[GeronL]

that little turn just before touchdown kind of made me queasy the first couple times I saw the video

[Cedar]

Great pics, thanks for posting.

[Celtic Conservative]

I think we may have been watching the same video. Just looked it up, It was closed in ‘98 after the new airport opened. It was rated the 6th most difficult place to land by pilots. You had to make a 46 degree turn while descending just past the middle marker. Pilots called it the “Hong Kong turn”. Passengers called it the “Kai Tak heart attack”. LOL.

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[make no mistake]

Amazing photos. Thanks for sharing.

[ops33]

I’ve seen several runways that work like that. Usually, what occurs is that an object, in this case a moving vehicle, penetrates protected airspace, called an object free zone, that extends along the final approach course and descent angle to a runway.

[GeronL]

wow

Well deserved

[Clinging Bitterly]

I live about 35 miles from where you were and watched it too. Unfortunately I was in town and didn't have a good view of the horizon but there were some great pictures taken in the local area. One I have seen has the eclipse and orange cast backlighting a couple pumpjacks and an excavator, probably somewhere around Maljamar or Loco Hills, a great photo with lots of color and contrast.

[Rodamala]

I once was reading a thread on here (thackery and a couple others are great with feeding energy sector articles to FR... particularly Permian Basin ones) and a Freeper mentioned a Crude By Rail siding I had just finished up near the Navajo refinery which isn’t quite Humble City and not yet in Lovington. Turns out this guy lived like a stone’s throw from the jobsite I had been on a few months earlier. I really... really miss that whole place... I was all up and down Highway 18 from Lovington to Monahans every day trying to “save the railroad”. After being “deployed” for months at a clip... multiple times, Hobbs felt like home... well maybe not Hobbs... just that whole area. I kick myself for not making the time to go to the Lea County Rodeo last year... or taking in a H.S. football game up in Lovington... Trying to remember all the teams... Kermit Yellowjackets, Monahans Lobos, Hobbs... Eagles I think... Lovington... Wildcats? Wink has a HS... I forget the team name though... where else... Jal... I suppose there is a HS in Jal... I just remember the Bobcat statue at Christmastime someone put a Santa hat on it.

[Clinging Bitterly]

That was me, still right here in Humble City!

Honestly, Hobbs will eat you up if you let it, especially with of the boom effect, and a lot of people come and go because it drives them nuts (including my wife as of a month ago). Everything is expensive and services are not very good.

But where I work there is a nice premium paid to be at this location so for the time being I'm staying with it. I did not like living down in town at all but it is quiet and pleasant at Humble City and the primitive digs don't bother me. I am in the set back part of the neighborhood (i.e. well off the road) in an ancient double wide which was actually built out of pieces of at least two trailers. One channel on the TV I seldom turn on, mediocre 3G wireless internet (enough to get Netflix without too many pauses), and my ham radios. Simple life first world style I guess.

But roots will not take hold here. It is less than a decade to retirement and there are better places to be at that stage.