I'm looking at this photo and I am wondering if I can use Google Maps to verify this location, so I took a look.
There are two runways here. There is nothing to the West until you get to Scotland and the Orkney Islands, 200 miles away, so they aren't using the East-West runway. There is water off the North end of the North-South runway, and there is land out there, but it is a couple of miles away. The land in the above photo looks a lot closer than that. So I inquired, and Gavin Hughes was kind enough to respond:
Hi Chuck, the houses are over 4 km from the threshold, and judging only from what appears to be the photographer's position, over 7 km away. With a long tele lens the distance is compressed making the background look closer. My guess is the shot may have been taken with at least a 400 mm lens, quite possibly even longer.
Okay, a giant telephoto lens was employed to make this photo.
While I am rooting around I discover that Thomas Waerner and his dogs, the winners of this years
Iditarod, flew home on this airplane. They were stranded in Alaska for months due to the COVID-19 panic.
Because dogs.
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