
Starting out one day early in an Air-France Concorde from RAF Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, UK. (EGXU) |

Preflight checks. |

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Winding up the Rolls-Royce engines, full reheat. |

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A nice clear winter's day. |

Passing back over EGXU on a westerly heading. |

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Barrow-in-Furness is visible down on the left as we head out over the Irish Sea. |

Crossing the Irish coast after raising the nose. |

Mach 2.0 |

A nice shot of the 3D cockpit on the Concorde. |

A last-look back at dry land as we start out across the Atlantic. |

You can just make out the shimmer of sunlight on the water from 45,000ft. |

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Some time later.. |

Making landfall over the Newfoundland coast. |

"Fly me to the moon.." |

Passing over Lake Michigan. |

Pulling some wide banking turns to scrub off speed. |

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Drooping the nose for better visual approach. |

Field (KSEA) in sight. |

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Gear down, lining up for final approach. |

Down safely, rolling out.. |

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.. and clear of the main runway at Seattle. |

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Taxiing to the stand. |

Shutting down until the time of the fly-in. |

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I log in half-way through the fly-in. Plenty of traffic at KSEA, as Mick points out. |

I hop into my trusty Su-34 for a piece of the action. |

That's four aircraft on approach and two waiting to take off (including mine). |

Two light aircraft arriving. |

An Airbus A320 (probably) lands. |

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My turn to take off.. |

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Getting clear fast. ATC has hands full and I don't want to cause any trouble. |

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Crossing back high above the field. There are seven aircraft in this picture. |

Tailing an A320. I wonder how that looked on the ATC radar scope? |

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Obligatory sun-glare shot. |

Mt. Rainier emerges out of the haze. |

Wheeling for a closer look. |

Crossing the summit at 450kts. Hope any climbers are holding tight! |

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Plenty of vegetation in this National Park. |

Mt. St. Helens (or what is left of it). |

Screeching over the volcanic crater. Not much outgassing in evidence. |

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I guess this is what happens when your texture memory gets corrupted.. |

The clouds look fine, however. |

En-route to Long Beach. |

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This fighter's cockpit takes some figuring out. |

Long Beach. I'm sure it's supposed to be longer than this.. |

Gaining altitude and heading back towards Seattle. |

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These clouds are why I bought my Radeon HD 3850 graphics card. |

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Not far from the field now. |

ATC has gone offline now, but it was well-received. |

The Su-34 runs out of fuel, just a few nm from the field and I request an emergency landing. |

Fortunately I'm in range with excess speed to lose via some high-G turns. |

On final approach, a bit off-centre.. |

.. and down safely .. |

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.. with just enough kinetic energy to roll off the runway onto the apron. |

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That's enough excitement for one fly-in. Merry Christmas! |