On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:59:44 -0700, GM wrote:

How about the smell - or stench - of crude oil or whatever refineries
release into the air over Denver City, TX. It almost made me gag at over
8,000ft. The lift was good, though. :-) Uli Neumann

I remember getting a good climb off the Stewartby brick kiln. I could see
the smoke travelling horizontally for half a km and then bending sharply
up and going into a nice cloud at 4500 ft, so thought I'd have some of
that. There was absolutely no air movement outside the smoke plume but
there was 5-6 kts inside it all the way to cloud base. The smoke smelt of
burnt diesel oil and hot brick.

It was the only thermal I've centered by sniffing!


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