Downtown Mobile Sunset

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Top AirVuz contributor Bumble Bee Productions brings us this excellent sunset drone video of the city of Mobile, Alabama. Located at the head of its namesake bay, Alabama's fourth-largest city is home to the state's main seaport (and one of the busiest on the Gulf of Mexico). At about the :40 mark, there's a nice shot of the RSA Battle House Tower. Opened in 2007, the 35 story building stands 670 ft. tall (just over 200 m) and is the tallest building in the state of Alabama as of 2022.

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I was in the area and I decided to drone downtown Mobile as the sun was setting. A very quiet and clean city surprisingly. Beautiful old architecture, old homes, restaurants and bars and other businesses and a strong maritime industry with cruise line and warship manufacturing. A little Wikipedia: Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of Mobile Bay on the north-central Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. This region of 430,197 residents is composed Mobile and Washington counties; it is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the state. Mobile is the largest city in the Mobile–Daphne−Fairhope Combined Statistical Area, with a total population of 661,964, the second largest such area fully in the state. Mobile was founded in 1702 by the French as the first capital of Louisiana. During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Great Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile became a part of the United States in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain.