I don't like to leave the San Francisco Bay Area, this is the most beautiful place in America I've been, and if you leave, they make you give up your parking space. However, now and then I fly to the Saint Louis Metropolitan Area for a family visit.
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We start at the San Francisco International Airport. That's the Flight Facilitation Center up there, they dropped the term control tower because it's too harsh.
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Here's a striking piece of architecture, the skylights of the International Terminal at SFO. Lots of people never see them, they're going in and out of SFO for domestic flights, but I took a long walk from the BART train station at SFO to the American/United terminal, and made a point of visiting. This building is the largest international terminal in North America, with the ceiling stretching 700 feet without interruption.
Here's the airliner that shot me like a bullet from SFO to STL. The man in the pilot's seat is Captain Oveur. Our flight took off six minutes late, but Captain Oveur made up the time once we took off by passing a couple of other airliners. And yes, he used his turn signals.
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On the lower level of STL, there's a long mural filled with memorable aviation images. It's worth a look, but is this lower level the best place for it? People just want to grab their luggage and scram. I didn't, though, here's Chuck Yeager. He flew the Bell X-1 and became the first man to break the sound barrier. One of the best movies of the 1980s was The Right Stuff, and he figures prominently in it.
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Here's the Saint Louis airport at sunset through an elevator window. Place just looks deserted.
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And here's the sunset atop the parking garage at STL. Knowledgeable frequent flyers park here for the sunset.
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Finally for this segment of the trip, the Saint Louis Arch through a windshield on the interstate. I tried lying on the top of the car for this shot, but the bugs were hitting the camera.
