"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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"Brian Sharrock" wrote:


"Dave in San Diego" wrote in message
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Yofuri wrote in
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John Weiss wrote:
"Dave in San Diego" wrote...

McGrail was my skipper on the Midway after his Tripoli tour. Great
guy.


'Good evening, this is the Captain speaking. The sky is clear,
and
sunset coming up soon -- a great day to come up and watch the
"green
flash"!

snip

green flash - loved those. I must have seen several dozen of
them.

Dave

Many years ago, I took a flight from Oslo to LHR.
The day was 'gin-clear' and the aircraft departed Oslo
about local sunset. On attaining cruising altitude the sun had
just set with its upper limb right on the horizon. The flight
tracked westwards at about the same rate the earth
turned east-wards so the sun seemed to hang just below
the horizon. I could clearly see the horizon, a band of black
then a further band of green light- about a quarter of the
remembered sun's diameter - with black sky above.
The flight just happened, due to a combination of heading
and time of year, to almost track down the terminator.
The phenomena was visible for about twenty minutes
before the sun dropped too far below the horizon.
It was the first time I was the green 'flash' as a green
presence.

Interesting!...you must have been trucking along at just under
1000 MPH ground speed then,...what a/c type?
--

Remember, Gord, time zones are a lot smaller up North - they shrink in the
cold. And OSLO is definitely North!

Bob McKellar