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F/A-18 flyby...
H the K wrote:
BAR wrote: H the K wrote: wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:02:52 -0400, Captain Marvel of Woodstock wrote: 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. You are just like the the idiots in Franklin Farms, at the end of the NW -SE runway at Dulles. New home owners: "Can't something be done about the noise?" Airport: "No, the airport has been here for 25 years before your house was built at the end of the runway." New home owners: why is there so much noise at 3:00 AM?" Airport: "We have a DC-10 engine test facility. It wasn't a problem until your subdivision built about 1 year ago." What are you raving about? I don't live anywhere near Andrews, and whatever happens there these days is no concern of mine. Once in a while, if I am at a shooting range near the base, I hear an air force plane passing over. If you are on meds, they aren't working for you. I rest my case. |
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