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Posted by Train Man Paul : Metro-North's Best Conductor FOR ALL 3 LINES!!! on Thu May 21 17:26:48 2009, in response to Re: Hunters Point vs LIRR Round 1, posted by arnine on Thu May 21 17:08:50 2009. I can tell you, having grown up 9 blocks from Runway 13L/31R (pronounced ONE-THREE-LEFT, THREE-ONE-RIGHT in aviation lingo, and all subsequent runway references are to be interpreted as such), from 1981 to 2001, I can remember every Concorde, both British Airways and Air France, who had 2 times-a-day departures each (0800 and 1300 approx. for Air France, 0900 and 1400 approx. for British Airways), and 2 times-a-day arrivals each, I know about noise, and I mean true, foundation-shaking noise when these bad girls took off from Runway 22R about 2 miles away and generated a shockwave with the thrust of the afterburners (attached to powerful Rolls-Royce Olympus engines) or 31L towards Howard Beach and Canarsie. And about smells, try smelling for 4 - 6 hours the "sweet smell" of jet fuel from idling planes in a winding taxi line all awaiting takeoff on Runways 13R or 22R, both really close to where I lived, not to mention the added smell of the arrived jets, and also when the winds were out of the southwest direction, the smell of the then-Spring Creek/Starrett City landfill and the sewage treatment plant at the extreme west end of JFK, and the nicer smell added in of polluted Bergen Basin at low tide.....now all that is true smell!! Screw the sounds of DE/DM30s idling being loud, or diesel fuel reeking worse than what I smelled out by JFK!! I would take those and Nathan K5LA toots over being another second next to JFK Airport, hearing it and smelling it, any day!! |
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