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Subject: [Leica] What GeeBee might see
From: nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)
Date: Mon Jun 12 02:22:30 2006

Jim, there's hugely less airbourne pollution in the UK today than there was 
in the 1950s, when everybody burned coal. The Clean Air Act and numerous 
other laws targetted at industrial waste, for example, have meant that 
London's "pea soup" fogs don't exist any more. To give another example, the 
city of Leeds was successfully bombed just once in the Second World War - 
the rest of the time the smog was so bad it couldn't be seen! I remember the 
shock 30 years ago when they cleaned the Leeds University clock tower - it 
was white underneath, not the grey-black it had always been!  So there isn't 
as much industrial residue as there used to be.
 Northants is not particularly close to the coast (although nowhere in the 
UK is that far - the central point of England is about five miles away from 
where I'm tying this, and that's comfortably under 200 miles from the sea - 
but it's a fairly rural county without huge amounts of industry. Where I 
live - more or less next door  in Warwickshire - is very similar to the 
landscape we see time and again from GeeBee - the gently rolling typically 
English countryside. What I don't get is how he always manages to have such 
wonderful cloud formations - every time I go out around here, the sky is 
either featureless blue or white, and that's not haze!
 
Nick


----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, 12 June, 2006 5:49:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] What GeeBee might see


Ric,

You are correct about the haze.  When I started flying in the late 1950s, 
visibility was much better than it is today.  The haze hides the cloud 
contrast, except for about one day when a cold front passes.  I assume that 
the seacoasts are close enough to GB to keep his horizons free of industrial 
residue.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA 



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