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On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:02:52 -0400, Captain Marvel of Woodstock
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Whoa - I would have loved to have seen that.
http://tinyurl.com/ltrj4d
Back in the olden days I used to get a show like that quite often in
Clinton Md when they were having an air show at Andrews. The fighters
were making a lot of their turns right over my house.
After a few of those crashes Harry is talking about they started being
a little more careful. It is scary when you think of it. The pilot may
be able to punch out but that plane is coming down somewhere.
There are not many places in suburban DC where that is not in
someone's house.
There's still a lot of touch and go training at Andrews, which is
dangerous enough, but as far as I know, no buzzing of apartment
buildings. I visit an indoor shooting range not far from the base, and
the entire building rattles every few minutes some days. If you are
wearing your shooting earmuffs, you don't hear a lot, but you can feel it.
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