Overheard on flight CO2567: Newark Airport:
"You can always tell if the pilots are Air Force or if they're Navy. The Air Force guys touch down like a baby's kiss - soft and with more than one point of contact. The navy guys hit the ground and screech to an immediate halt."
High winds in Newark today caused ground delays of exactly 55 minutes for all departing flights headed there. Oddly, that is the exact time that the FAA Flight Delay website predicted it would be due to heavy air traffic conditions, aka Friday night. Although they really were using only one runway tonight which led to two interesting phenomena:
1 - After landing, the pilot (Navy) went tearing sideways across the runways to get to the terminal. I've never been in a plane that was booking so fast on the ground,. I guess the command was to get down and get the heck out of the way.We were, at one point, very very close to the strip where the next plane was taking off by which I mean we almost got a free shave.
2 - The planes were headed for that single runway pretty much parallel to the parkway. As the cab was driving me home, we got to watch the bright lights on the planes coming in one right after the other. I guess they know what they're doing, those air traffic controllers, but to me it looked like asking for trouble to have them so close together.
Look what it's come down to - what a boring blogger I am.
How's this: I just made the ringtone for Sami's calls to me play "Walk Like an Egyptian". Oh way oh.
Anyway, I'm home and I'm staying here for a while.
Now that you're home you can meditate on the words of Hedley Lamarr when he said, "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."
And then your blog will overflow with posts.
Posted by: pops | October 13, 2007 at 12:06 PM
I read this comment when I was first awake and without my glasses and I thought it said "my mind is raging bonnet".
I thought "Wow, how did he know?"
Posted by: Suzette | October 13, 2007 at 01:56 PM