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Watch now: Aerial views of the Tucson Mountains, Kitt Peak and Silverbell mine
- By Johanna Eubank
Arizona Daily Star
Johanna Eubank
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Jim Hefner has a GoPro Hero 9 black mounted on a wingtip of his Vans RV-6A aircraft. He flew out of La Cholla Airpark and this is what the camera saw: a desert blanketed in green after the last few weeks of rain.
Johanna Eubank
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