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Post by beana51 on Nov 28, 2012 11:20:24 GMT -5
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Post by Dave3cu on Nov 28, 2012 18:10:15 GMT -5
Can you 'see Russia from there'?  ;D |
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Post by beana51 on Nov 28, 2012 20:18:08 GMT -5
Why yes Of Course you can Dave,...Mt. Mc Kinley, not far from Dear Sara ,in Denali and is 20,320 Ft. MSL. And As The Song says"ON A CLEAR DAY YA CAN SEE FOREVER". ;D....Cheers Dave..Good to hear from you....Vin!! |
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Post by luisfeliztirado on Nov 29, 2012 10:09:15 GMT -5
Splendid pictures, Vin, great scenery.
Best regards.
Luis
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Post by beana51 on Nov 29, 2012 10:54:59 GMT -5
Thank You Luis..."FLIGHT" continues to amaze me....Those Tree shadows,waving on that strip..The shadows,reflections,and overall scenery quality.just great...Too bad it was not pursued further..But that now is beyond our control....So far there are no new "Flight Sims " on the Horizon...Developers know know we Simmers are a Fickle lot. ;D......CIAO...Vin!!
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Post by beana51 on Dec 3, 2012 10:38:20 GMT -5
Can You Really See Russia From Alaska?Yes Dave3cu ya can!...Strangely Believe it!!
Yes, but only the boring parts...Sara Darling Was Correct!!!
In "FLIGHT" I do !!...From St. Lawrence Island!...Unfortunately "FLIGHT" is NOT PERFECT!...Does not depict two air ports...Gampbel PAGM,and Savoonga PASA...In FSX these Airports are shown!..."FLIGHT IS NOT PERFECT!!
In her Sept. 11 interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, Sarah Palin had this to say about Russia: "They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." Is that true?
Yes. Russia and Alaska are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point. In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other. The Diomede Islands are often blanketed by persistent fog, which makes visibility difficult. On a clear day, though, a person standing at sea level can see a little less than three miles across the ocean. You can see farther if you go higher—at the highest altitude on Little Diomede (919 feet), you can see for about 37 miles. (Between mid-December and mid-June, when the water between the two islands freezes, an intrepid explorer can just walk from one to the other.)
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The tactical importance of this proximity is debatable, however:Big Diomede has no permanent population though it does house an important weather station. Alaskans can, however, see into the future from Little Diomede since Big Diomede (or Ratmanov Island, as it's known to the Russians) is on the other side of the International Date Line.
You can also see Russia from other points in Alaska. According to a New York Times article written in the waning years of the Cold War (when the Alaska-Siberia border was known as the "Ice Curtain"), if you stand on high ground on the tip of St. Lawrence Island—a larger Alaskan island in the Bering Sea, southwest of the Diomedes—you can see the Russian mainland, about 37 miles away. The same article claims that you can see Russia from the Tin City Air Force facility at Cape Prince of Wales, which is the westernmost point of the mainland Americas.The station chief at Tin City confirms that, for roughly half the year, you can see Siberian mountain ranges from the highest part of the facility.
It's not as if Alaskans can see into the heart of the Kremlin, though. The region you'd be seeing from these vantage points is the Chukotka autonomous district, a massive, desolate expanse of about 285,000 square miles with a population of about 55,000. (That's an area roughly the size of Texaswith a population the size of Pine Bluff, Ark.) Chukotka has fewer than 400 miles of road and no railroad infrastructure; the population is mostly employed in mining and subsistence hunting. The more strategic areas of the Russian coastline, militarily speaking—the Kamchatka Peninsula, home to a nuclear submarine base, or Vladivostok, headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet—are not visible from Gov. Palin's home state.
Palin does have Obama beat, though: The closest foreign territory to Hawaii is the Micronesian Republic of Kiribati, but at more than 1,000 miles away, it's not remotely visible with the naked eye.
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