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FAA "BRIJJ" Station, 2024 (fedia.io)
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FAA "BRIJJ" Station, 2024

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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] 1 points 4 days ago

@[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. :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Infrastructure is quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] Engineering (including infrastructure) is quietly heroic.

Recommended viewing:
City of Ember (2008)

-a story where the heroes are anonymous long-dead engineers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected]

"Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

--Kurt Vonnegut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected]

i fkn lurv infra. really. it's fascinating. it is culture, distilled to its essence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

@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] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] (And I didn't know she was here - thanks for the pointer!)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] It amuses me how many aviation waypoints have a mnemonic pronunciation that invokes something about its surroundings. This one I'm guessing refers to the San Mateo bridge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

@[email protected] I passed by that station a few months prior, now I know what it actually is! Your picture is great as always. Here's mine: https://flic.kr/p/2q7E46q