Aircraft

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Pootie and Li'l Kim...

[Glinda]

poot
noun
Word used by the religious in place of the objectionable word "fart." Farts usually follow a day of drinking draft beer and eating soft-boiled eggs, whereas a poot is usually let loose on a church pew after a healthy breakfast of grapefruit and bran muffins. Both can have a nosehair curling stench and loud reverberating echoes, however the poot is usually excused as "God's Little Airhorn."

[xoxoxoBruce]

If the jets are so loud the "neighborhood felt like being in a war zone", why do they need billboards to make them aware of it?

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If the jets are so loud the "neighborhood felt like being in a war zone", why do they need billboards to make them aware of it?

Years ago, I worked in downtown Vancouver, roughly seven miles from the PDX Air National Guard base as the F-15 Eagle flies. Every day, at 8:45 am and 12:45 pm, when the jets took off for another sortie, everyone for at least 15 miles around heard the noise.

You're right, this guy isn't telling anyone anything they didn't already know. I'm sure the noise next to the airport is incredible every time the Air National Guard jets take off, but most of us aren't stupid enough to live next to an Air National Guard base expecting anything else.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I worked two miles from Philly Airport, right on the river which was the landing/tale off route depending on the wind direction. At peak hours the planes would be less than a minute apart. It was spooky quiet for three days after 9-11-01.

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I worked two miles from Philly Airport, right on the river which was the landing/tale off route depending on the wind direction. At peak hours the planes would be less than a minute apart. It was spooky quiet for three days after 9-11-01.

I was living in the SF Bay Area at that time, and had a great view from my condo of the skies over the Bay. That first night, I stood on my balcony and marveled at the empty skies - no planes at all. Very spooky.

But every now and then, there were a few lights in the sky from military jets patrolling the Bay and coastline. Seeing those occasional lights in the sky was very heartening, knowing that the Air National Guard and other military groups were out there on the job, (making noise and) keeping me safe.

These days, out here in SW WA, lights in the night sky belong almost exclusively to the stars, but I do get the occasional convoy of six or eight military helicopters passing extremely close by. It always gives the creeps.

[Diaphone Jim]

Dubai seems to make more sense as a stopover than Singapore.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Biomimicry...

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That's where NACA ducts came from, too.

Great comparison.

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Swiss cheese comes to mind...

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Didja see what's going on there? How long did it take?

**Greg "Pappy" Boyington was Robert Conrad's charcter on Baa Baa Black Sheep.**

[Happy Monkey]

I notice that, while most jet engines have air intakes, this one appears to have an anger intake.

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That plane is kinda like this birb.

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Take a rubber band, a really big rubber band, slip one end around the tail skid, slip the other end around that U-shaped hook sticking out the back of the propeller. Then, wind that sucker really tight...

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I'm photo safari'ing the other day when I happen to look up and see this plane making a long sweeping turn, and decided to take a practice shot picture. Which isn't the best pic I've ever taken.



Is it just me, or do the proportions of the plane look a little 'fat'? It looks to be a particularly fat-bodied plane, doesn't it? Is it just me?

I thought maybe it was one of the newer planes, like a Dreamliner, or Airbus A380. Nope.

Idk what I took a pic of.