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Various selection of pictures from 2008 in KSAN Airport Tour. Click on pictures for medium view. Right-click/save to save and/or view different resolutions.

   The start of the tour, checking out the pet potty stop at the airport.
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   Terminal 1 at San Diego International. I get some sorta random stuff in the mail being a pilot. One of the newsletters mentioned a special tour KSAN puts on once or twice a month...so i signed up.
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   From the overhead bridge looking east over T1. There's going to be a 2nd story drop-off here sooner or later..
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   Some airport expansion is planned for the dirt/former dump for the marines. Some punk(ass) chick said they dumped radioactive and nuclear stuff here... (uh-huh.. she had it in for the military i guess)
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   A great tour the ?, director of airport ops. Punk girl is in the back w/ vans.
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   We drove around in a bus and got head phones to hear the guide talk.
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   Approaching the security gate (where i have almost went a few times), there's a UPS plane there...
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   We're driving down the side side of the taxiway heading east and this United plane is catching up to us...
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   The birders go nuts here. Some sort of bird nests here and thier chicks run around for a month or two before they fly away.
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   Blast fence. Our road (and the main road to the airport) are right behind it.
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   These little ballons are scattered around the airport to scare birds away.
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   The black wire/boxes are part of the detection system. So no climbing the fences...
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   Do you know where all the poo goes from the planes? Right here! Via the honey wagons.
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   Jim's Air, FBO that was recently bought out by a big conglomerate.
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   This little dinky building used to be important... the main terminal or something.
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   Note the windows.. converted into freight.
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   The big boys of the air...
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   The tower. The spinning white/round thing is the ground radar.
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   KSAN ATIS i believe.
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   The end of the runway. See the steps? That's crushable concrete that will collapse when a plane gets on top, used to slow it down in an emergency.
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   The tarmac. As in tarmacadam. As in asphalt. But it's made of concrete!
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