“We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check - a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream”4yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/venturacounty
This is Congressman Steve Knight. He sold out Santa Clarita, Palmdale, my fellow Californians, and this nation to the telecom lobby for the price of $29,0006yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/LosAngeles
Ojai Protest, 4p Sunday at Libbey Park - Keep Physical Distance, No Violence4yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/venturacounty
80,000 ft: Where the wild blue yonder meets the blackness of space - Self-portrait by legendary USAF pilot Maj. Brian Shul in the cockpit of his SR-71 Blackbird [4,183 × 2,750]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/space
A passing airline pilot captures this Atlas V rocket breaking through the clouds above Kennedy Space Center, Florida - July 2013 [612 x 612]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/SkyPorn
1 of 44 wildlife overpasses on the Trans-Canada Highway route through Banff National Park, Alberta [1287 x 855]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
Living in the US where you can't get this close to planes anymore, this amazes me: The bike path next to the Polderbaan runway at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport [1200 x 800]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
This is Congressman Steve Knight. He sold out Simi Valley, my fellow Californians, and this nation to the telecom lobby for the price of $29,0006yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/venturacounty
The confluence of the 110 and 105 freeways, Los Angeles, CA [1843×1468]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
Silly Americans, always breaking the rules of the Autobahn! - A29 outside Ahlhorn, West Germany (1984)11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/aviation
Southwest Airlines runway excursion this morning during rain off 08 at Burbank Airport, stopped by EMAS5yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/aviation
10 lanes of Interstate 80 are completely stopped over Labor Day weekend on the old, seismically-inadequate San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (L) while a transition deck is built to direct vehicles onto its replacement: the Signature Span, a self-anchored suspension bridge and skyway (R) [2048x1536]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
DC-10 attacking the Falls Fire with retardant - Lake Elsinore, California [720 x 960]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/FirePorn
Some editor must have been grinning ear-to-ear on the way home from work today - from today's Times11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/LosAngeles
Chilled to the BONE: A B-1B Lancer being tested in subzero conditions at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida - 198611yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/aviation
80,000 ft: Where the wild blue yonder meets the blackness of space - Self-portrait by legendary USAF pilot Brian Shul in the cockpit of the SR-71 Blackbird [4,183 × 2,750]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
With its main rotors removed to prevent escape, a NHIndustries NH90 helicopter is fed to an Airbus A300-600T Beluga to appease the transport's voracious appetite - a function of its large size. Canberra Airport, Australia [1024 x 669]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/MachinePorn
This pretty much sums up why I want to get a tailwheel endorsement someday11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/flying
Southwest Airlines begins construction today on the $156 million International Terminal Expansion at Hobby Airport11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/houston
80,000 ft: Where the wild blue yonder meets the blackness of space - Self-portrait by legendary USAF pilot Maj. Brian Shul in the cockpit of the SR-71 Blackbird [4,183 × 2,750]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/HumanPorn
In case of a Soviet attack on NATO air bases, a 7,000 ft. section of the A29 Autobahn outside Ahlhorn, Germany was purpose-built to serve as an emergency airfield for allied fighters and transport craft. (Video in comments) [724 x 1024]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
Landscape orientation is BACK in the new, iOS 7-redesigned version of Apple Remote (available today); also adds support for iTunes 11.111yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/ipad
Oct. 10, 1980: After being shut in for 26 years, the hangar containing the Spruce Goose is partially torn down so the massive plane (world's largest wingspan) can be moved to a permanent museum display - Long Beach Harbor, CA [OS] [970 x 615]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
One year ago today: Interstate 405 is shut down temporarily as the Space Shuttle Endeavour Orbiter crosses the Manchester Blvd. overpass on its way to its final home at the California Science Center museum - Los Angeles, CA [OS] [923 x 615]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
From a firefighter's Facebook: The Rim Fire bearing down on the west entrance station to Yosemite National Park[OS] [501 x 720]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/FirePorn
From a firefighter's Facebook: the Rim Fire bearing down on the Highway 120 entrance to Yosemite11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/California
City lights and lightning through the clouds - LA and San Diego during a summer storm, courtesy of the crew of Expedition 36 on the International Space Station11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/LosAngeles
When my TV does this, I call it the Rem Koolhaas Channel (Pritzker Prize-winning programming!)11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/architecture
Angkor Wat is so massive that the Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx (overlay) would easily fit within the compound with acres and acres to spare. [OS] [940 x 628]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/MapPorn
The Concorde, the Tri-Jet, and the Cowboy: Dallas-Fort Worth Airport turns 40 this year - [642 x 467] [OS]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
PSA: Whenever there's a fire (or fires), Wundermap provides good coverage of fire boundaries and smoke plumes. [Link in comments]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/California
TIL Google Earth now has 3D imagery of LA (in addition to the older SketchUp buildings)11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/LosAngeles
Despite last week's intense storms, most of CA is still experiencing far below average precipitation for this calendar year11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/California
Berlin Airlift - Allied C-47 transports unload their cargo at Tempelhof Airport after the Soviets blockade the city's rail, road and canal access - 1948 [1800 x 1438]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The slow creep of sprawl across the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (sorry for potato quality) [OC] [1024 x 681]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/CityPorn
One of the best looking liveries out there, IMO - Fiji Airways' (formerly Air Pacific) new branding11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/aviation
The NFL's All-Fines Team - players at each position who've racked up the most fines over the last 10 years10yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/nfl
General Dynamics designed the F-111 fighter/bomber with the emergency fuel release right in between the afterburners. This can make air show displays... well, pretty interesting [x-post /r/aviation] [1600 x 1000]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
April 30, 1992 - After 4 LAPD officers were found not guilty of using excessive force in the beating of African-American Rodney King, South Central Los Angeles erupted in six days of riots, looting, arson and murder. 3,767 buildings were destroyed and 53 people killed. [970 x 632] [OS]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
It amazes me that the Forth Bridge (right), a cantilever truss built for the railway in 1890, will functionally outlive the Forth Road Bridge (left), despite the latter being less than half as old. (Corrosion in the suspension cables has shortened its useful life) - Edinburgh, Scotland [13750x1915]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
It was odd driving onto an active Army live-fire training base and finding a Spanish mission right in the middle of it - Mission San Antonio at Ft. Hunter Ligget11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/California
70 mph Santa Ana gusts vs. tie-downs - former San Fernando Airport, Dec. 31 197411yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/flying
5:15 AM, May 7, 1952 - City Hall is backlit by a predawn nuclear weapons test at Yucca Flat, NV - 300 miles away (story in comments)11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/LosAngeles
Rainfall totals from Wednesday through the end of Saturday - some areas of VC got more than 12!11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/venturacounty
Somewhere there's an editor who's very happy with him/herself - from today's L.A. Times11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/Journalism
From the NWS Facebook: Santa Ynez Mountains got a TON of rain from these past two storms (totals from Wed - Sat)11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/SantaBarbara
After SWA #1455 overran Rwy 8 at Burbank Airport - crashing through a fence, across a road, and into a gas station - they installed this EMAS (Engineered Materials Arrestor System) pad made up of crushable concrete to trap the landing gear and stop an aircraft. Here, A GII ends up in it in 2006.11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/aviation
Narrow gauge cable car tracks ascend an 18% grade on California St. with the Bay Bridge in the background - San Francisco, CA [599 x 900]11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
The Nacimiento-Fergusson Road is a personal favorite of mine - Fort Hunter Liggett, CA (by Trey Ratcliff)11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/California
80,000 ft: Where the wild blue yonder meets the blackness of space - Self-portrait by legendary USAF pilot Maj. Brian Shul in the cockpit of his SR-71 Blackbird11yr ⋅ Nacimiento ⋅ r/pics
