Shared Experiences – Photography and Notes from the Field
Today we are finally leaving Hawaii. I can’t believe I just said that, considering that we are in the island paradise! We have been delayed just one day but the tension of the project is high enough that people I talked to all say, it feels like we have been here a week. If only … Read more
Yesterday’s relief over the solution to our disrupted schedule did not last; we are delaying more, waiting for the pilot to arrive. This time the fun is provided by United Airlines, which delayed his flight out of Denver. So we are sitting in Kona, working on instruments and jumping up and down because we should … Read more
This was one hard work day. Vacationers would not appreciate it, and we don’t wish it upon anyone else. Although I would not trade it for anything else. We had to change three months worth of preparations for inter-hemispheric operations, spanning 52,000 km and 4 countries, all in one day. At the same time, two … Read more
When people who work in their offices hear that we flew to Hawaii for work they usually react as “Lucky dogs! I wish I could…”. But very few actually would think about it for a minute: when all vacationers are hanging out on the beach or leisurely stroll to the bar in early afternoon we … Read more
We arrived in Kona after an 8.8 hour flight, performing 8 slow dips from 28,000 to 1,000 feet and ascending back up. On the way to Cold Bay, Alaska and for the next two hours after Cold Bay we did not see anything but clouds. Solid decks, stacked at two levels and sometimes at three … Read more