"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
01/24/2014 at 18:26 • Filed to: None
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
01/24/2014 at 18:26 • Filed to: None | 5
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Those people are crazy. No one at the airport over the age of 8 looks out the damn window. Huge machines are FLYING!!! How cool is that?!
Sorry about the horrible title, Kinja won't let me type what I want. Oh and context: stuck in Chicago, flight delayed 2 hours
ddavidn
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:27 |
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I do that too. I love flying.
Pitchblende
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:28 |
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People are stupid, what else is interesting at the airport? (Okay, so baggage trucks are kind of cool for a little while)
pdx107
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:30 |
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You would love my parents place, right in the flight path for landings at PDX, great plane watching from their driveway all year long
For Sweden
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:30 |
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Are you holding a shoulder-launched missile?
Group B-raaaaaaaaaap!
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:31 |
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Not crazy! I used to work near a municipal airport that handled regional jets. I used to park in a lot at the end of the runway and watch Embraer ERJ's, Gulfstreams, and small 727's land while I ate lunch. I also got to watch the USCG choppers do maneuvers too (they shared the facility).
Brian Silvestro
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:31 |
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I've been at an Airport a few times in my life and I think it's the craziest fucking shit in the world. These GIANT FUCKING MACHINES MADE OF MEDAL are GOING INTO THE AIR AND FLYING. What! How is that not the most amazing thing ever!?
WhiskeyGolf
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:31 |
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You are not crazy, we used to do that when Toronto's Pearson airport had a huge multistory parking garage. Airplanes be magic!
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Jayhawk Jake
> For Sweden
01/24/2014 at 18:32 |
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Only a pretend one and making pew pew noises
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Jayhawk Jake
> Pitchblende
01/24/2014 at 18:32 |
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Their iPhones and books, whatever the hell a book is
Slave2anMG
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:33 |
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I'm a train watcher as well...and photograph them. Plane watchers aren't any stranger :)
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Pitchblende
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:34 |
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There are phones and books at other places, people don't touch the ground at 200 mph in huge machines at other places (well not often and not without explosions).
Stupidru
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:38 |
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No you're not! I'm an engineer and people look at me strange when I say that I believe it's magic to see 30,000lb machines FLYING.... in the middle of the sky! I still think it's one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind.
My wife looks at me like I'm crazy when I say that I want to take a day of vacation and go down to O'Hare airport and lay on the hood of my car for hours and watch the planes take off
desertdog5051
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 18:41 |
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Since a large jet weighs between 500,000+ and 800,00o, I think it is cool to watch them take off. Yeah me is an 8 YO at heart.
smitdoshi
> Stupidru
01/24/2014 at 18:50 |
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I agree, its an amazing engineering achievement to lift all that weight and fly like a bird. Love plane watching myself
The Vibe Guy, Apparently
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 21:07 |
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Nope! My drive from college pretty much has a radius around MSP International up to a point where they fly right over the road. I love gawking at them, and when it gets warmer I'm going to stop at the park they fly over and just watch them.
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> Jayhawk Jake
01/24/2014 at 22:24 |
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I've lived near ORD my whole life. I still watch them. Although I no longer pull over along the outskirts to watch them after 9-11.
SteyrTMP
> Jayhawk Jake
01/25/2014 at 02:10 |
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I like the smaller airports... I remember when I was a kid, we lived under the flight path of the small Ann Arbor airport. One day, we heard some serious rumbling, and a flight of AH-1's flew over... we took off to the airport, and they were stopping through; we got to look in them, and whatnot.
Here in Ohio, about 30 min from my parents, and next to where I later worked, there is a small airport. Nosing around in the hangers was always fun. One guy had a Steerman, but the ones that really made my day was a deHavilland Vampire, complete with a spare engine, and, if I remember correctly, a small v-tailed jet of the same era, which I can't remember the name, something similar to voodoo.
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Jayhawk Jake
> SteyrTMP
01/25/2014 at 08:16 |
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Was it a Fouga Magister?
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SteyrTMP
> Jayhawk Jake
01/25/2014 at 13:19 |
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Yeah! That's it! I've googled both the Vampire and the Magister, and if you search "Fouga Magister Middlefield Ohio" and "deHavilland Vampire Middlefield Ohio", you'll find both eventually to have being owned at one point by a company called Firebird Enterprises back in the late 80's. I didn't see them until the late 90's at least—didn't move to the area 'til 94'-95', so they must have changed hands a few times. Warbirds registry lost track of the Vampire shortly after Firebird Enterprises sold it to another owner, and when I went back to that airport around 2008-ish, they were both gone.
When you think of it, that's a pretty eclectic selection of aircraft, having the two of those under one hanger in some bohunk hillbilly airstrip. Apparently Firebird Enterprises owned quite a few aircraft, including the Steerman I mentioned earlier.