Having begun his turn, he no longer needed his turn signal on.

It kinda looks like Santa's light trail. Is Rudolph up there somewhere?

I'm puzzled by the sharp right-angles of the light paths on the runway. Presumably these are his wing lights, while taxiing before take-off. Doesn't a plane make a sweeping turn? It reminds me of the light-cycles in Tron...

That's because in most of the country, rich people don't live too close to airports and it's a lot easier to fly lower over middle and lower income neighborhoods.

The funny thing was we were discussing that today after the funeral since some of the mourners were from California.

A very cool photo.

The beacon is the light that means the plane has an engine running. As it climbs you see the beacon on top and as it levels off you begin to see the beacon on the bottom. Planes have at least two of everything. Some systems, like navigation have six or seven layers of redundancy.

Welcome Simon!

Tell the truth ... you're actually quite complex and you're trying to put us off our guard, right?

No I'm pretty simple. It's all the time I spend with my two year old, I think.

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