Don’t you think?
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Oh, and white clouds.
Archive for the ‘aircraft’ Category
The Joys of Buzzing Market Street in Your Aging Cessna 310 Twin – What’s the “Minimum Safe Altitude” Over SF?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013This is a Cessna 310, or something similar, just after it buzzed the Financial at well under Minimum Safe Altitude, which in this case is 1000-something feet above ground level.
Escaping to the northeast:
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Now, do I have your tail number? No I don’t. So you win this round, Flyboy.
Regardless, I cry foul.
Until next time…
(And try to not kill yourself or your passengers or any ground-dwellers before then.)
If You Fear the Beard, Then You Should Fly the Beard: Look What Virgin Air Did to the San Francisco Giants A320
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Pork-Barrel Republican Roy LaHood is a Bad Secretary of Transportation – Here’s Why – Toyota Cars vs. Boeing Planes
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013Transportation Secretary Roy LaHood ‘s message to Toyota owners back in 2010:
“LaHood says his advice to owners is to ‘stop driving it. Take it to a Toyota dealer because they believe they have a fix for it.’”
Now here’s message regarding Boeing’s new 787 wide-body:
“I believe this plane is safe and I would have absolutely no reservations of boarding one of these planes and taking a flight,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at the press conference.”
Perhaps these statements are the right thing to say politically, but they’re not the right thing to say IRL. The chances of people dying in a 787 accident over the next month or so are low, but those chances are orders of magnitude higher than that of passengers on a tried-and true Boeing 777, for example.
So the fact that we’re not even going to consider grounding the fleet in America because some pol “thinks” the 787 is “safe” seems stupid to me.
And the latest is that an airline in Japan has grounded its entire fleet of 787 Dreamliners.
Oh well.
Know Your Northern California Spy Plane Nose Art: Beale AFB U2 “Dragon Lady” = Santa’s Sleigh
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
San Francisco Chemtrails, November 13, 2012
Thursday, November 29th, 2012Oh, did I say chemtrails? What I meant to say was contrails.
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Contrails are harmless.
Mostly.
Fly It Like You Stole It – Sailing High Over the Western A
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012My, what a long contrail you have…
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San Francisco Invaded by Hovercraft and Helicopters – See and Hear the Action, Courtesy of David Cruz
Thursday, October 4th, 2012Renowned San Francisco photographer David Cruz caught the start of Fleet Week 2012 yesterday over at Ocean Beach.
Check it:
And the video:
Get To the Chopper! The West Side of San Francisco to be Invaded by the US Military this Morning
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012Or so they say:
“This morning from 10-11 am a large military watercraft will arrive on Ocean Beach. This is part of an exercise and is only a drill.”
“This morning 11am-1pm there will be an exercise w/2 helicopters at Sunset Blvd & Lake Merced Blvd. Noise will be elevated. It’s only a drill”
OMG, It’s “Zeppelin Flight Timelapse: San Francisco, California!” – Video of Cruising Low and Slow Over the 415
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012Here’s what the Bay Area’s big Zeppelin looks like from San Francisco…
…and here’s what San Francisco looks like from the Bay Area’s big Zeppelin:
Ah, mem’ries:
Passing by Coit Tower:
A close up view, click to enlarge. Can you see pilot Fritz Guenther and his Peltor brand headphones? Sure you can.
And an adorable piggly tail in the back:
There we go, back to normal:
