Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:16:47 +0000 Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc References: From: c186282 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:16:51 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 37 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-lTXrl1tYHpkVMcO7CEE6WtfBz1iCCWKhz7zA6DuIzAIIYPN0x3KuwQHX8BFMIf2iSeuhfMwZSjmtCBG!wwFZsJFaHHHgr+tI7uJB7d+vD/wTdIpUe5jU/NfKLn+5UriuvvLmvJZFfjmDR3JMLZOLdgSXH6TZ X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3031 On 3/12/25 4:31 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: >> In article , >> Scott Lurndal wrote: >>> I was hiking last weekend (1200' trail altitude) and pair of >>> blackhawks flew overhead at maybe 1600' - definitely audible >>> for miles coming _and_ going. >> >> Be glad you didn't get buzzed by an F-35. I always found that >> annoying when I was outside the wire. > > I used to live a half mile from the threshold for 32R at > Moffett during early 90s. The constant drone of P-3's > doing touch-an-go's became background noise. However, > the C-5A's landing at 0300 during Desert Storm were > obnoxiously loud and could be heard when they were > still over Las Gatos. > > I spent one Friday before a Moffett field airshow at > the threshold with a scanner watching the inbound > aircraft 50 feet overhead - including a B-1B and an > SR-71. > > The best was when we had a base pass at Edwards to watch > a shuttle landing. I lived in the LA basin then, and we > always heard the double-boom as the shuttle flew over > the basin; it was a 6am landing, so we went up the night > before and rolled out a sleeping bag in the parking lot. Heh ... I was flying a little plane on what swiftly became kinda IFR conditions when an F-18 suddenly blasted by, 100' or less, at about 400 knots. If better weather I coulda made out his face. Under the conditions, all I could do is get on UNICOM and say "F-18 pilot, keep an eye on your radar !" It was probably intentional - fighter-jock fun.