FAA "BRIJJ" Station, 2024
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Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.
This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.
This kind of infrastructure, integral to modern aviation safety, is almost invisible if you don't know where to look for it.
@[email protected] I'm loving these photos of radio stations like this. As a radio geek and an avid photographer, this stuff is right up my alley. :-)
Infrastructure is quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.
@[email protected] Engineering (including infrastructure) is quietly heroic.
Recommended viewing:
City of Ember (2008)
-a story where the heroes are anonymous long-dead engineers
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"Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
--Kurt Vonnegut
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i fkn lurv infra. really. it's fascinating. it is culture, distilled to its essence.
@mattblaze have you read @debcha’s delightful How Intrastructure Works: Inside the Systems that Shape our World?
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/
@[email protected] @[email protected] (And I didn't know she was here - thanks for the pointer!)
@c0dec0dec0de @debcha Yes! Terrific.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you both!