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JUNE 25, 2012: FLIGHT AROUND SAIPAN AND TINIAN with Ron Smith and Nathan Tan

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A pre-sunrise meeting for a dawn flight.
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A pre-sunrise meeting for a dawn flight.

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  • A pre-sunrise meeting for a dawn flight.
  • Nathan checks everything out prior to take off.
  • I'm in the back seat. You won't be able to hear any of the conversation (we had on noise-cancelling headsets with microphones so that we could talk to each other easily), but you will get to see Ron's job of lifting us off!<br /> <br /> To play the video, click on the triangle above. If everything goes well, that will play the video automatically. However, sometimes (depending on internet connection) some time will be required to buffer. If it plays erratically, click on the PAUSE button and allow it to buffer a bit. Then click PLAY and enjoy. After the video is finished, click on CLOSE (upper right of your screen during video play back) to return to the SmugMug gallery format.
  • Lake Susupe.
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  • Susupe, with 360 Restaurant and Saipan World Resort.
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  • Sun is up, behind the clouds.
  • To your left is Saipan World. To your right is Kanoa Resort (formerly Saipan Grand). Slightly in the background (in front of Lake Susupe) is 360 Revolving Restaurant atop the Naru Building.
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  • Suicide Cliff.
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  • Veteran's Cemetery (to your right) and Banzai Cliff.
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  • Banzai Cliff (slightly right of center) with Suicide Cliff behind it. Mount Tapachau (the highest point in the CNMI) in the background.
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  • The Grotto (to your right) and Bird Island (in the distance, above the center of the photo).
  • Bird Island (you can recognize from the previous photo). CIA Hill to your left. See the tiny little thing sticking up on CIA Hill?
  • That odd looking suction cup thing (to the right of center) on CIA Hill is an old satellite radar which the CIA at one time manned for tracking satellites from the communist block. It is now a huge chunk of rusting metal. Notice the stair-step appearance of CIA Hill. I assume that comes about because the island has been submerged to various levels at different times in prehistory. While it started out as a volcano, the exposed parts of Saipan are basically ancient coral reef. The island has been submerged for millennia, then exposed for millenia, then submerged again, etc., allowing for successive growth periods.
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