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D. Paul Angel
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I'm a writer, photographer, and nerd, though not necessarily in that order.

I'm also an AvGeek, enjoy tabletop games, and have spent way, way too many years in the legal field.

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A Soviet parade full of people carrying giant, red soviet flags, with the text, "More red flags than a Soviet parade"
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Good morning BlueSky! Now, I'm not saying the plane behind me for this week's #MuseumSelfie is perfect, but it is… A-10 😁
Fun fact about ours: its nose rests much higher on display than it would have in service because we only have about the last foot of its GAU-8 30mm cannon in the nose. #EASM #A10
Selfie in front of a grey A-10 with our full scale replica Gemini capsule hanging in the background. My hair and beard are both more grey than not and are in desperate need of a trim. The business end of the A-10's 7 barrel Avenger cannon is directly over my part, and looks significantly more delicate than it has any right to because of the distance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I'm not saying it was foggy at the Museum this morning, but it's usually pretty hard to hide a 747. "Usually."

#AvGeek #EASM #planespotting
A head-on view of a 747 on top of a Waterpark, that's really hard to see because of thick fog. There's grapevine in the foreground that are brown and trimmed back for the winter. A side-view view of the same 747 on top of a Waterpark, that's even harder to see because of thick fog and extra distance. There's more grapevines in the foreground that are brown and trimmed back for the winter.
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike🪶
A peahen aggressively ignoring a peacock in full display as she walks by him.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I just realized I was going off of just what I've seen depart, and assuming that it was what always happened.

Thanks for checking me!

(And here's a video of one climbing out of PDX last year)
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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They're not kidding!
Screenshot of the flight path of the flight mentioned, showing multiple, wide turns along what should be straight path.
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Was looking through photos for a @fark.com photo contest, and remembered this shot of I205 going across the Columbia from Oregon to Washington.
I was flying down to San Diego on an early morning flight, and the light was just perfect for how still the river looked :-)
Looking back on the bridge from the air. The Columbia is an unbroken band of blue, allowing for highly detailed reflections of the bridge and it's supports. The bridge is higher towards the top of the image on the Washington side, so it's reflection matches that curve as the reflections get ever closer. The ground and many of the trees are various shades of brown since it was early December, and some low fog is intermingled in the evergreen woods towards the top left.
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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There's a pair of standing lenticular clouds over Mt Hood this morning, and my little phobt camera just cannot do proper justice to how stunningly beautiful they look in the sunrise's warm glow.
Also amazing to think how huge they must be too, since Mt Hood is 70(ish)miles away from Portland.
A pair of clouds that look almost like hovering UFOs in the sky above Mt Hood. The foreground is all still super dark but you can almost see the hills lining the distance. Mt Hood itself is in light shadow, with various bands of orange and yellow running across the sky behind it
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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What are we thinking fam, are Sky Fae real?
Fairies who dance in the sky from cloud to cloud, tumbling twixt the falling rains, and diving with the lightning bolts?
Who laugh as they slide down a rainbow's edge, and tickle the feathers of soaring eagles; ere twinkling with the stars as they slumber?
A line of bright yellow, orange, and reddish leaves scattered in a puddle reflecting deep blue skies and puffy white clouds.
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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One of the unique aspects of Kaman, as seen here on our Seasprite, is the use of trim tabs to control the blade pitch on the main rotor instead of rotating the rotor at the hub.
With the ending of the Kaman K-MAX production line in 2023, I believe it's no longer being used on any current models.
Three of the Seaprite's main rotor blades in the folded position, centered on their trim tabs. The tab is aft of the rotor's training egde, attached to brackets with a gap between the two flight surfaces. A control arm is attached to the bottom, which would move the trim tab up and down to deflect the main rotor blade in the opposite direction.
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Good morning BlueSky! Today's Museum Selfie includes our SH-2F Seasprite. I dreamed of flying these as a teenager after reading Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, but HS knee injuries sadly precluded my serving.
I still have a love of them though, so it's great having one here :-)

#AvGeek #EASM
Me in front of our Seasprite nose. It's painted dark Navy grey, which has noticeably large windscreens for its size. I have grey hair and beard, both of which are in desperate need of a trim.
October 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Portland mornings with clear skies don't suck.
A camera phone picture of the scresent Moon, where some of the disc is just visible, but the crescent part is brightly blown out. There's a faint star immediately below, and the lights of a passing 737 below and to the left. The little triptych of lights is framed along the right side by a pine tree's needles. Mt Hood backlight by the orange glow of the sun rising behind it. The layers in the foreground are all subdued in layers of shadows.
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Scanning electron microscope image of a tardigrade on its back to which someone photoshopped in a violin. The image predates AI, so it's skillfully done.
October 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Simpsons meme of Maude Flanders' lamenting, "Won't somebody please think of the children?" but with children crossed out in red and replaced with "Iowa coffee fields"
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Hope your day gets better! I'll offer a retired 747-100 tucked away in a vineyard with a sky full of contrail :-)
The gate guardian for the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum Museum: a 747 without it's engines, behind rows of grapevine. It's in Evergreen International livery, with a white base a pair of bold green stripes along the fuselage. It's early morning, with sun still low on the horizon by a cluster of trees in the background. It's lighting up 8 different contrail segments in stacked lines directly above the Queen of the Skies
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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When you've run your little heart out and it's nap time…

(Also love the first shot where he flicked his ear just as it snapped :-)
A tan Pittie sound asleep on a couch between a stuffed Llama and mocha. His ear is flapping, making it a blur. Same as the first shot, but his ear is still and pointing straight up. Same as the first image, but it's a closer image and his ear is straight up.
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Reminds me of this.
Two panel cartoon of a guy pissing himself, surrounded by a crowd laughing at him, with a close up of him in the second panel smugly saying g "Heh, Rent free" in front of a wash of Ha Ha Ha's
October 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Since Portland is once again in the news because of ongoing protests, I think it's important to understand the scale of what's going on, with a visual depiction of what Portland's Police Chief described a few days ago.
Google Earth image showing the ICE building at the end of Portland's South Waterfront. It shares a parking lot to the South with Tesla, both of which are labeled. There's a red rectangle around the ICE building labeled "Protests" showing the area in which the ongoing protests and/or riots are occurring. Another Google Earth image which still has the red rectangle labeled "Protests," but it is much smaller and zoomed out to include more of the river, South Portland area, and Southeast. A final Google Earth map zoomed almost all the way out for Portland proper. The box labeled "Protests" is a tiny speck on the map which goes out as far as Forest Park in the Northwest, Bull Mountain in the Southwest, Sandy to the Southeast, and past Washougal, WA to Molfair Tracts in the Northeast.
October 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Today's sunrise absolutely slapped
Sunlight clouds hover in clearing skies over a dark road curving upwards to a tree lined hill, still lurking in the shadows.
October 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Today's Museum selfie is a reflection from outer spaaaaaace! Well, sorta. It's me in a reflection of our full scale Sputnik replica, the first human made satellite to orbit the Earth, and official start of the Space Race.
Fittingly, it's also the start of our Space artifacts too!
#EASM #AvGeek
Our Sputnik model is is a polished metal ball about the size of a beach ball. It has four trailing antannaes, and I am the slightly distorted figure in the center, surrounded by washes of color reflected from our other exhibits.
October 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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If you see this, post something monochromatic (DO IT NOW*)

*buuuuuut, it's also totally cool if you don't too :-)
The spike and air inlet of of an SR-71 Blackbird in black and white. The sun is hitting it from the right of the frame, leaving a straight line shadow right through the spike's center.
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Hope you're through it soon.

Hope some goofy puppy dog pics helps, even if just a little, 🤞
A tan Pittie, standing with a pink octopus dog toy on his head. He's very confused as to how shaking it around so much could've put it there, but he'll soon be trompi g around and shaking it again regardless. A tan and white wippet cattle dog mix looking down from the bed with her ears perked and little paws crossed. She looks to be wondering why I'm not throwing the ball for her even though it's right next to her on the blanket. A tan Pittie with a an orange Chuck-It ball in his mouth looking straight down at the camera as if to ask, "Why are you laying on the floor when you could be throwing this for me?" A tan and white wippet cattle dog mix with a soft rubber toy in her mouth. Having already ripped the ball shaped toy almost in half, the way she's holding it while sitting makes her look like she has a giant blue clown nose over her snout.
October 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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I really do love both reflections and shots through an opening, pretty much like a portal, so hope you enjoy these from our sunny days earlier this month :-)
Reflections abound in the still water under a concrete bridge. The square bridge and it's reflections create a doorway to the greenery out side along the creek along with its vibrant reflection too, with a line of rocks looking like they're almost hovering in the water too. A couple older buildings reflected in the glass windows of a modern tower in downtown Portland, as seen through the exit of a fire escape. There are trees in the foreground and concrete walls surrounding the frame, with the fire escape railings too. An angled view through the open fire escape window showing a classic building awash in early morning light being a bunch of trees with different shades of green foliage. The fire escape's white ladder can be seen heading up out of frame behind the cement wall.
September 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Just thinking of this again for no reason…
Photoshopped Spirit Halloween Costume entitled "Conservative Guy Scared of Cities." The picture is a typical dudebro with short beard and hair in jeans and an off white "Nine Line" shirt with a Blackhawk on the front left, and a blackout American flag on the sleeve. The costume attributes are, "Saw that thing on the news," "Too many of 'those' people there," "Can't park Ford Super Duty," and, of course, "Not scared, bro"
September 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I noticed a theme too…
Cropped enlargement of the image above, showing that a painting in the background with Jesus also wearing a red top with arm up raised similar to the Archangel's except open handed.
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM