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Watching the sunrise in Queenie

By General Aviation News Staff · September 5, 2017 ·

Pat Napolitano sent us this photo he captured while flying the Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics Model 17 Staggerwing affectionately know as “Queenie.”

Napolitano, who flies and takes care of Queenie at her base at Fresno Chandler Executive Airport (KFCH), was flying over Twentynine Palms, California, en route to Phoenix.

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  1. Bill says

    September 6, 2017 at 10:52 am

    The sun does not rise anywhere……….. it appears on our eastern horizon and disappears on our western horizon…… everything rotates….. solar system, the sun in the solar system, the earth around the sun and the earth around its axis……..

    Sun does not rise… nor does the moon

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