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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Nicely framed through the high tension wires

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I live next to a tiny local airport that sees maybe 4 Cessna 172s a day.
But, the army flies about 6 of these in every week and does touch-and-goes with them at the airport and sometimes they stop for Jet-A.
Why does a tiny airport have Jet-A?
For the Chinooks.
But I love those bastards, they shake the whole house when they fly over and I always stop to look, even after more than a decade.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've ridden in one, and it's like riding a paint mixer! You feel like you're still vibrating after you get off of it lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Having also ridden in a few I felt the view from the hellhole in flight was always worth any discomfort during the ride.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I live near a little air strip too.

I’d rather have Jet-A particles than the 100LL Avegas exhaust coming down around my house.

The worst part is that our town elementary school is under the turn to land for the most common prevailing wind. The kids love seeing planes nice and low, and I do still too, but I can’t help wondering what the school playground’s lead levels are like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm directly under the pattern for my airfield so I try not to think too much about it too much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wait till you see the h21!

H21

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How do you know it isn't running away from home?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It was dinner time and I could hear its mum calling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago