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| A view of Lanai in the distance - 3 more hours until the actual fly-in time | The shore of Molokai is just barely visible | Climbing a bit higher than 3000 feet |
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| Approaching the mountaintops at 5000 ft | The lights at PHOG come into view - and USAF buzzes my blimp | |
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| VTOL action courtesy of USAF - that fighter is almost hovering, maintaining roughly the same speed as my airship | ...and as you can see that's not very fast, my current groundspeed is 19 knots! | |
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| Looks like the blimp I'm flying isn't the only lighter than air aircraft around | ||
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| Three aircraft encounter! | ||
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| Leaving the mountains and arriving above the city | ||
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| Flying at about 150 feet AGL here | Passing quite close to some of the rooftops | |