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To: Sting 11

Why would a pilot take off from an unlit runway? That shorter runway was for daylight use only. Was it dark at 6AM in Lexington, anyone know?

423 posted on 08/27/2006 10:36:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)

To: mewzilla

I am in upper East Tennessee. Six a.m. dawn is about breaking. Sky is getting white - not black.

426 posted on 08/27/2006 10:38:56 AM PDT by don-o (Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))

To: mewzilla

Was it dark at 6AM in Lexington, anyone know?

Official sun up was 7:03 AM. Here's the data for Lexington KY, from the US Naval Observatory site

Sunday
27 August 2006 Eastern Daylight Time
SUN
Begin civil twilight 6:36 a.m.
Sunrise 7:03 a.m.

So it should have been fairl dark.

479 posted on 08/27/2006 11:08:32 AM PDT by El Gato

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