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Finally shed summer here in so-Cal, except we skipped fall. 2 days ago, it was 95 & we slept with the a/c on because it was still 85 at bedtime.
Today it got up to 61 with winds... Burrrr!
 
Was around 61 (16c) here in Nova Scotia yesterday and was short sleeve weather. Had snow last week and 23 (-5c). All relative to what you are used to. Stay warm Brian!
 
An interesting ‘event’ occurred this afternoon. We have a lot of air traffic to/from Dulles Airport over and near the house. But this afternoon, I heard something coming in low, loud and fast. I was fortunately sitting near a window and looked out to see a fighter jet buzzing by at probably 200 feet. He was hauling ***. About 60 seconds later, another (or maybe the same) jet flew over. Kinda freaked me out a bit, to be honest. I later learned that the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum (on the Dulles grounds) is getting a Blue Angel and it was a Blue Angel F/A-18-C on it’s way to Dulles. That particular aircraft has flown in several squadrons and missions date back to Operation Desert Storm. It was turned over to the Blue Angles in 2015. Pretty cool, and I was glad to learn we weren't under attack. :D
 
There was a year when the Russian MiG air flight team flew here alongside(so to speak) with the Blue Angels. The captains of each team “Shared” cockpits for part of the show, both were roundly disciplined for it but, it was sure fun to see! I still have the T-shirt, I’ll look for that!
A few years later my wife was living in some apartments right along the flight line and one of the “Angels” flew over while I was grilling a pork loin and waved! I will never forget that! Oh, he was INVERTED!
 
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My parents live under the flight path of the local airport. Every year they used to do aviation expo's & had military jets fly in - right over their house - man I miss those days!
 
Years ago when I was an Army cook stationed in Va Beach, Va, my future ex and I had a small one bedroom apartment that was right in the flight path of NAS Oceana.
Whenever the carriers either came to port or were leaving, there would be a Navy jet landing/taking off RIGHT over our apartment.
This would go on every 3-4 minutes for about 8 hours!
It usually happened during the week, so I only caught part of it.
The house that Pammi and I have now sits on the flight path of Charlotte Douglas airport.
In the spring when we first start eating on the deck, we notice it, but after a few meals, it kinda blends into the background
 
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Years ago when I was an Army cook stationed in Va Beach, Va, my future ex and I had a small one bedroom apartment that was right in the flight path of NAS Oceana.
Whenever the carriers either came to port or were leaving, there would be a Navy jet landing/taking off RIGHT over our apartment.
This would go on every 3-4 minutes for about 8 hours!
It usually happened during the week, so I only caught part of it.
The house that Pammi and I have now sits on the flight path of Charlotte Douglas airport.
In the spring when we first start eating on the deck, we notice it, but after a few meals, it kinda blends into the background
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Back in 2001, my house was directly under the flight path for the primary runway at Dulles. I could sit on my deck at 5pm on a Friday and clock the planes flying overhead with pretty good precision - they'd fly over (pretty low) about every 45-60 seconds. Jet noise was like the ocean for me. Then 9/11 hit and the silence in the weeks following was deafening. Similar with COVID where I live now. I'm not in the exact same proximity as in '01, but definitely noticed last spring when it got quiet.
 
Yup, I grew up with air traffic passing over the house. When I had friends come over, they'd always ask, "How do you deal with it?!?". To me it was a normal thing.
It wasn't till years later, I was standing in my parents kitchen, looking out the sliding glass door when I saw the shadow of a plane coming towards me - that's when I got it, what they were asking. I wanted to hit the deck!
 
we live right under one of the flight paths (actually one that's used the most) of KRFD. I believe it's the 2nd busiest UPS hub in the country, it's also a major hub of Prime (Amazon), FedEx and a few passenger flights from Allegiant and a few charter lines. We also get the prison planes as well.
But the UPS large 767F and A300F planes are the most plentiful. They come in so low that many times their landing lights light up my yard or even shine right into my bedroom window. I don't mind though. It's the sound of business doing well!
 
Growing up in the 'burbs of Chicago our home was in the flight path of O'Hare airport I remember as a kid around 1958 the first Boeing 707s started service and the first time I saw and heard one fly low over our house it scared me half to death.
 
Yeah same here. They would come in so low over our house it felt and sounded like you could touch them. We lived just off Cicero Ave and right between Belmont and Diversey (what is called Belmont Craigin) They didn't scare me though. I was a plane junkie from very early on
 
Planes fly right over my house all day long, I’m less than 1/4 mile from dead center of the runway, I mostly don’t notice it at all, it’s got to be something unusual for me to notice. The Ford Tri-motor will make me look, when they flew in the big C-5A Galaxy, I noticed that too and of course the Blue Angels.
 
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