***World's Largest USA Flag displayed today...Pictures from Syncro***

My Adventure 9-11-2002 ^ | September 11, 2002 | SYNCRO and DR. ZOO

[Syncro]

You like this guy don't you...LOL

[abner]

Since Alcatraz is still a federal facility see if that wonderful balloon could be tethered there. It'd be right in the middle of the air show!

That would really be something! How much wind is there?

[bootless]

Hey, O.V. is GRATE! Sometimes I laugh so hard I almost have to pull over.

They're all terrific.

[Joe Hadenuf]

So that makes California home to the three largest American flags in the country..... Nice photograph. Thanks....

I wonder what was grown to make the blue in the image?

[pbear8]

Our weather is so interesting it's hard to say. Could be none, could be 55 knots like during the Tall Ship Parade.

What are the wind parameters?

We were lucky the last two Fleet Weeks as the weather was reasonably fair and warm.

[Syncro]

Your welcome Justy!

I hope to make it down there again in the not too distant future past...

Here is a sequence of the flag "catching air" and then being put away for transport.

[abner]

Anything over 7 knots and we can't even take it out of the bag. Imagine a GIANT sail. Well, kind of like the one in the photos on this thread. When we inflate, if the wind is too high, it won't inflate to vertical.

[No Truce With Kings]

I wonder what was grown to make the blue in the image?

Larkspur. All three colors are larkspur.

[pbear8]

Believe me, I understand sails! We do sail-training for at-risk youth on our boat!

Let's think of someplace in the lee of the City. Anyplace in front of the Ferry Bldg down to Pier 40 (Pac Bell Park) is good - OK protected from the wind. The ferry piers (Pier One, Pier 1/2) might work. The Port Pilots are at Pier 9, they might help. Either of these would be highly visible.

Anyone else have any suggestions for a highly visible, wind protected spot??

[Syncro]

The rest of the sequence...

This couple looks so happy...

[Syncro]

Here are the shoes you tried to buy off of that lady...

[Dr. Zoo]

Vertical...good

Horizontal...bad

Gotcha

:>)

[Joe Hadenuf]

Larkspur? Dang, I am not even sure what that is. Is that kinda like Lantana? Shows what I know when it comes to flowers...

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thanks again for these great images of the greatest flag on Earth....

[Syncro]

yw, and there is a town in Marin County called Larkspur...now I know why it is named that.

I thouhgt it waz named that cause a drugstore cowboy one day wore one spur...kind of as a lark.

Ok ok I gotta go to Ukiah...

Thanks for bumping the thread.

[doug from upland]

Great! Thanks for the news.

Pinging vetnet.

[abner]

Alcatraz would be so cool!

Sigh...

[American Preservative]

Agreed. : )

(BTW, love your patriotic top.)

Thanks. People were wearing lots of grate USA wear. : )

Check out the shoes in #171! : )

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Thanks Syncro! : )

Wanna post the picture of the Corky's Twin Towers t-shirt?

Have a good trip up north.

[pbear8]

It really depends on the day. If we have a mega-high pressure system sitting right over us there won't be any wind, otherwise the seabreeze is always funneled right through the Gate.

[American Preservative]

Joe and NTWK, here's the thread - Patriotism Blooms In A Fresh, Fragrant Way"

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Welcome, doug. : ) Vetnet, see #136.