Welcome ta the Grassy Knoll--a not so stoopid thread 'bout con speer a see

Texas Lawdog · December 27, 2008, 06:47:09 AM

The last time I posted on this thread, it wasn't even up to 32. This morning it is 72, go figure on this wacky weather.

Silver Creek Slim · December 27, 2008, 10:51:35 AM

Thanks pards.

Quote from: Leo Tanner on December 22, 2008, 01:00:50 PM
'Specialy another red head
A recent study shows that the time is coming when there won't be anymore of em.

Leo

No more Redheads?

BTW, I think I figgured out what the ground shake was here a few weeks ago. It was the kraken in Pearl Lake trying ta break thru the ice. Pearl Lake is a few miles from here.

Slim

Texas Lawdog · December 27, 2008, 10:58:25 AM

We supposedly had a little shake around here a couple of months ago. It was only a mile or so north of the house. I never felt anything but it was reported.

Delmonico · December 27, 2008, 11:24:24 AM

We get them some winters, when the ground gets good and frozen down deep. When I'm up-stairs I can feel the house vibrate and rattle, then in a few mor seconds I hear a chrash and a bang.

Scares me the first time every year, then I realize they just humped a car a bit to fast at the RR yard a 1/2 mile south.

Silver Creek Slim · December 27, 2008, 11:43:27 AM

The closest RR yard is 45 miles in Stevens Point.

Slim

Texas Lawdog · December 27, 2008, 12:46:43 PM

We need to let California keep them earthquakes to themselves.

Arcey · December 27, 2008, 01:23:05 PM

Don't get the shakes from below. It's from above. Sometimes the Navy jets get a l'il low. Ain't on the glide slopes here but occasionally they fly over 'n they rattle the windows. Ain't heard one break the sound barrier in awhile. They ain't supposed ta in town. But when they do.............

The other thing is helicopters. There's five banks within a mile of here. Two I can see from the back yard. When they get robbed the police fly over low. The 'whop whop' shakes the whole house.

No complaints with either. Make all the noise they want. Just sayin'.

Delmonico · December 27, 2008, 01:36:05 PM

I get rumbled by low flying KC-135's all the time, they do a lot of touch and go's and bank over us a lot.

Ozark Tracker · December 27, 2008, 01:52:25 PM

the Air Guard in Ft. Smith has A-10's, sometimes they'll come up this valley on the north side of us about tree top level, then up the mountain and pop the sound barrier about the time they crest the top, guess it reverberates off the face of the mountain, sure stirs the turkeys up.

Delmonico · December 27, 2008, 02:00:58 PM

I didn't know the A-10 could go super-sonic.

Ozark Tracker · December 27, 2008, 02:27:57 PM

it may not, but the sound off the face of the mountain sure upsets them turkeys.

Delmonico · December 27, 2008, 02:48:47 PM

Quote from: Ozark Tracker on December 27, 2008, 02:27:57 PM
it may not, but the sound off the face of the mountain sure upsets them turkeys.

Upsets Eye-rock-eee tank folks also.

Texas Lawdog · December 27, 2008, 03:10:36 PM

Them A 10s can do some serious damage with rockets and that Gatling gun mounted in the nose.

Leo Tanner · December 27, 2008, 05:38:45 PM

The A-10, not yer father's tank buster...

Livin in Southern California as a kid, we had a doggy door in the kithcen door. When the super sonics came in the boom was enough ta blow the doggy door flap open. Then we went an had an earthquake when I was five an thought it just the planes comin in.

Leo

Texas Lawdog · December 28, 2008, 02:04:37 AM

When I worked the west side of Ft. Worth, I always got plenty of those jet fighters at Carswell and General Dynamics. Carswell is where they filmed "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart.

Delmonico · December 28, 2008, 10:59:04 AM

Quote from: Texas Lawdog on December 28, 2008, 02:04:37 AM
When I worked the west side of Ft. Worth, I always got plenty of those jet fighters at Carswell and General Dynamics. Carswell is where they filmed "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart.

But the film clips from the planes when they are landing are Offut.

Texas Lawdog · December 28, 2008, 01:19:27 PM

They build the F 16 at the plant in Fort Worth, so there are always being tested. Now that Carswell is a joint Reserve base, you see all kinds of planes flying around from fighters, trainers, tankers, and transports.

Delmonico · December 28, 2008, 01:24:10 PM

We get a lot of corperate type jets around here, Duncan Avation is one of the top service centers for those in the world.

Texas Lawdog · December 28, 2008, 01:48:50 PM

All of our corporate stuff is at Meacham Field which in North Fort Worth. There is a guy and his wife that own a B-17 and they have it in a hangar at Meacham.

Arcey · December 28, 2008, 02:33:16 PM

No tellin' whutcha'll see in the air these parts. Got the bases with the military stuff. There's that museum out it Pungo 'n they fly old stuff occasionally. ORF has a terminal away from the main terminal for corporate with separate parkin' so the rich folks (Kurt Busch) doan have ta mingle with us bottom feeders. Then there's the one out off Battlefield Blvd. in Chesapeake that I think is all corporate 'n charter. 'Nother'n off 58 that with a mixture of light aircraft. Where I was takin' my lessons 'fore I ran outtah money.

Wanna see one them big triangular thingys folks er seein' 'round Area 51.