Subject: Re: [Homestead] Forget oil and housing, let's talk about water...
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:09:52 -0500
On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:
So you can actually get them to change their path and share the heart
palpitations with other families?
In our case, the squeaky wheel got the grease. We persisted with
phone calls, found the right person to talk to, he sent out a captain
and a Department of the Army civilian with two GPS units. They set
them on the ground next to the house and waited half an hour for them
to settle down. The two units had very slightly different readings,
they averaged them, we chatted; they went over to my friends' place
about a half mile northwest, did the same thing. They gave those
readings to the dispatch officer down in NW Arkansas who actually set
flight plans with the big SAC base up by Kansas City, Whiteman AFB, I
think, where the B -2 flew out of.
Within a couple days, we had no more fly-overs.
Yeah, heart palpitations is right on. I remember the first time one
came over me. I was out in the garden; I heard this roar way down
hollow; it got louder and louder; suddenly this monster craft
thundered in just over the trees and right above me. I thought I was
dead for sure. I damn near fell to the ground. No chance to run. I
figured either the Russians were coming in under the radar or this
plane was gliding down to its crash site. Waited for the crash sounds
to come back to me but the engine sounds just waned. Glad those
instruments did their job. The windshield was covered with metal
shutters. I later called them the Darth Vader planes. Scary as hell.
The training flights are, in fact, to train pilots to fly under
radar. Barely above the trees, swooping up and down over hill and
holler.
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