Sbiker
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Mostly, we see AN 124 aircraft here, rarely an AN 225 on its way to an air show. "Turn and burn" here means fill the fuel tanks and send it on its way. Anchorage is actually the third largest cargo aircraft port in the world.It's warmer here now so it's also snowing. The power went out for a while but has come back on now. I don't know how long it will stay one, though. I'm not looking forward to work tonight, either. Snow really complicates things when you're doing "turn and burn" service for jumbo jets.
This night it was a silent snow with big flakes - an awesome weather for walk and enjoy...
I saw some years ago, how technics made "turn and burn" with engine, got a bird or similar thrash... A spiral smoke from engine and so on... They've cleaned it and plane started some minutes later It was Tu-134, very nice plane with characteristics closer to bomber, not a passenger plane... It flew like nobody else
Oh, you have darkless nights every summer at this latitude. I'm living about 10 degrees souther. Since I worked in Nizhnevartovsk, I remember a festival "Samotlor nights", some days during summer solstice with white nights ) They have even a special mark of vodka for these days.
An-124 is a great power About "turn and burn" - I really hear it every week, because I live near aircraft manufacture. President and his helpers are usually this airfield, because it's more comfortable than official airport... It's a days, when I afraid to observe street through an optical sight of my pneumatic rifle )))))