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Was out flying around and saw all these areas like the picture below...Some wierd alien landing areas I would guess..... They start to come up out of the ground then eventually turn into these wild creatures!!

Cool photos Larry!  Better keep an  eye on your wimmen, those aliens are always trying  to capture them to aid  in  repopulating their galaxies.

Paul Fiebich

watch out flying to close to their superconducting super colliding anti proton neuclaicic reators  they are really hard on mini max aircraft I have heard,  and especially those tall rotating forcefield generators  can cut a guys plane in half like a mc nugget.  LOL  very cool pictures

When you actually get close to them they are kind of intimidating...There are 41 new ones going up with the closest one(to me) at about two miles away, the one in the pictures is ten miles away..I can't believe all the crops they wipe out in putting these up.

Larry

Here are a couple of pics I took a year or so ago over Beaumont Ks, for size comparison, the quicksilver is less than 1/4 mile ahead of me. I was flying at roughly 350ft agl runing paralell with the quick about 300ft upwind of the windmills.

Looks like you guys out in the flat lands are farming those things as a cash crop. Has anyone flown over them (at altitude I hope) ?  Just wondering how much turbulence they create above and/or near them. In TN we just have to dodge mountains and cell phone towers.

Above them isnt bad, I crossed behind them about 70yds out and it was quite impressive, was smooth but constantly trying to roll the plane over.

Chris

Big wind farms show up on dopler radar as tornadoes so I would think there would be a bunch of turbulance.  The one up by Russell Ks will show a hook on radar and when it was first put up caused the weather boys some problems.

DAMN........that's enough to blow Dorothy back to OZ. I think I'll stay away from KS.

The air isnt really "choppy" behind them but the power of the vorticies comming off the blades is incredible. It is like someone is slowly lifting the wing of your plane and trying to roll you over and you are powerless to stop it. The only thing you can do is ride it out and let it carry you downwind and away from them.

CHris

Sounds just like wingtip vortex..Probably acts the same way. These around here are scattered about so if you got behind one you just might not be out of the wake until you were into the next one....

Larry

You guys remind me to "Don Quixote*" but from the 21 century.
For those of you not familiar with the story, Don Quixote used to travel in a very skinny horse (a Minimax) with his buddy Sancho Panza who rode a donkey (a Quicksilver). Quixoje saw those big windmills at the Spanish country and said "Sancho, do you see those ferocious giants threatening us?
Lets charge them before they do" and there he went on spite of Sancho´s warnings, speed up his horse and charge against the windmill......Well you can imagine the results.
Sounds familiar?  So please don't play Quixote.

(*)Written in the early 1600's by Cervantes. A jewell of the spanish literature.

Took a few more pictures last evening. Don't know why they turned out a little blurry, but you get the idea. A couple of these are of the hole they dig and cement used to start with. A picture I posted earlier shows the dome shape on top of this.
They have all the pieces brought to the sites of at least four so far and this huge crane to lift it all in place. I flew at about 400 feet and the crane is that high. On a clear day I can see the crane sticking up from home which is a little over 6 miles straight west of me...
Sorry for the poor pictures. I'd do them over but its raining today...

Larry