At 08:21 AM 3/3/03 -0800, Wingling wrote:

>A friend of mine was living in the flight path for McChord, when
>one day, out in his yard, he looked up as a C-130 flew overhead,
>coming in for a landing.  He watched it land, then walked inside
>and called the flightline.
>
>"Did you know," he told the Sgt. in charge, "that the tires on a
>C-130 have to be inflated to 145psi?"
>
>"Well... no," said the Sgt. "Why?"
>
>"Because one just flew over my house and I read that on the
>tire."
>
>Nobody flew *quite* that low again.  

Heeheehee!  A Navy helicopter flew past our house one day, when I was a kid
back in the 50s.  I mean, flew PAST, not over (one-story house).  My sister
said that the pilot had the cutest freckles!  

My friend Tisha, raised in the midwest not near any aircraft of any kind,
was driving and I was a passenger one day when we drove past the end of the
runway at Jacksonville Naval Air Station.  We were outside the base, on
Roosevelt Boulevard (better known outside the area as U.S. 17).  A P-3 flew
over, coming in for a landing.  It was rather low, but not uncommonly so.
But it unnerved Tisha. 

"What was THAT?" she shouted almost panicking.

I adopted a Spock tone of voice:  "It is commonly known as an airplane."
(Inwardly, I was grinning, being used to this scene).  "It's just landing."

"BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LAND ON TOP OF MY CAR!"

I laughed myself silly, much to her annoyance.

>Lissa There'sAirTraffic,ThenThere'sHavingToKeepYourHeadDucked
>Wingling

Veloci--you get used to it--raptor
 

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