Gibraltar Airport, where planes and cars meet daily

“Gibraltar is the only major airport where the runway actually intersects with a major highway. When a plane has to take off or land,car traffic is shut down.”

No, this incredible image is not a Photoshop montage and that’s not Batman’s plane. It’s a Qantas Dash 8 Q 400, a twin propeller passenger airplane passing in front of the Moon in Australia. This is how it was taken:

Today, I achieved something I have wanted to do for a considerable length of time: A plane crossing the moon.

Everyday this Qantas Dash 8 Q 400 flys over our country property,always at 5.30 pm, without fail—I have watched it fly ‘through’ the moon a few times.

Today, the moon was at the ‘right’ phase-approx in line with the planes flight path. So I set up gear (I have done this drill quite a few times!)

I saw the plane along way of and thought ‘no-its not going to hit’,I stayed beside scope just in case,then as it got closer,I could see “it was going to line up!”

My palm started to sweet—buck fever. I only want to pull the trigger when I knew the plane was in the centre of the moon. I got my wish!

The shot was taken in South East Queensland, at 5:30pm on September 16. Chris—the photographer—used a Vixen 103 ED refractor on a Vixen GP mount, guiding by a Vixen SS2K. His camera was Canon 450D at 1/250s, set on ISO200.

A jet flies in front of the full moon in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) #

Duct Tape Fixes Everything

“I don’t believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape,” said Miles in the Lost finale. This, however, isn’t TV. This is a real airplane flying. And that’s real duct tape.

Would you fly in a plane with duct tape on its wing? My first answer was, sure, why not. But then, let’s put it this way: If the mechanics left that on plain view, imagine what is hiding elsewhere in that plane. So, to answer the previous question: In a word, no. Would you?

(via amputo)