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Wheels up - departing Reid-Hillview Airport in east San Jose
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The sprawl of northeast San Jose as highway 680 scars the land
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Looking south toward downtown San Jose and the 87/280 interchange
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Overflying Mineta San Jose International Airport
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Downtown Mountain View
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The spanish tile roofs of Palo Alto's Stanford University
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Following highway 280, the peninsula beckons. By this time we were well on our way cruising at 3,500 feet.
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Crystal Springs reservoir
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Blurry shot of downtown San Mateo.
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By FAA regulation, staying well clear of SFO means I was using telephoto
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Leafy Burlingame
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Moffett Field, home to Lockheed-Martin's bay area base and the NASA Ames Research Center, with the marshland of the southern bayshore as a backdrop.
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Woodside, wealthy rural enclave
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Parting shot of Burlingame with a chunk of San Mateo
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South San Francisco and San Bruno with the city in the distance
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Pacifica
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This is why living on the coast can't be beat
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The nearly uniform appearance of the Sunset district is striking at this angle
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San Francisco State University
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Downtown is just an easy zoom shot away
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Sutro Tower enjoying its lofty 1,800 foot view
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Golden Gate Park, walled-in by the Richmond and Inner Sunset districts
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Downtown Oakland in the distance as the city basks in the warm glow of late afternoon sun
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As we descend to 1,000 feet for the Golden Gate Bridge, a lovely view of land's end
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A gorgeous day is evidenced by the good turnout at Ocean Beach
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Heavy erosion has produced some beautiful cliffs as the gateway to the Marin headlands
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Explanation needed? Didn't think so
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Wow.
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Richardson Bay with Marin County all around
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Looking back toward the city with the shadows having fallen on Sausalito's slopes
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On to the East Bay, according to both what's out the window and the moving map GPS display.
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Head-on view of the Russian Hill, Nob Hill, Civic Center, Cathedral Hill and Pacific Heights skylines
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Downtown
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Another view of the city's scattered skylines
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Passage to Treasure Island
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Construction on the new east span can be seen to the right of the Bay Bridge
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Vectored straight for Oakland
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The massive port complex
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Berkeley and its very long dilapidated former pier
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The Bay Bridge freeway maze and Emeryville's shopping and parking lot hemorrhage
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The MacArthur maze
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Rockridge and North Oakland
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Overflying downtown Oakland
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And its jewel, Lake Merritt
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A great view of the snaking streets of Oakland's Eastlake, Trestle Glen, and Dimond neighborhoods
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A lovely telephoto vista toward the former Alameda Naval Air Station and the city
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Flying past the Bay Area's most historic (and convenient) airport
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East Oakland with Mt. Diablo behind in the distance
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Zoom toward Hayward as highway 880 scars the landscape
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New suburban development in Hayward
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The Hayward hills, with a sliver of the CSUH campus below
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The San Mateo Bridge stretches out toward the peninsula
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Coming up on the Sunol grade
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Beautiful effect as the sun casts its fading light onto Fremont
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Aaron Seymour as we prepare to land
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Milpitas below and San Jose in the distance - by now the sprawl seems endless
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Flaps down as we make the turn over east San Jose's new neighborhoods onto final approach
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How appropriate - the approach takes us right over the roof of a mall
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The lovely 2002 Cessna 172SP Skyhawk that took us on this fantastic tour
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Forumer J Church looks on as Dan pushes the plane into its parking spot
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San Jose sunset. This concludes the Bay Area aerial tour.
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The strange layout of the 1950s subdivisions in Daly City and San Bruno
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