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    4 hours ago, birdguy said:

    My Mom could sense an earthquake before we felt it.

    I've been able to "hear" some earthquakes right before they hit.  It has to be relatively quiet otherwise, but about a couple seconds before it starts shaking, I've heard what seems like a sudden rush of wind on otherwise calm days.

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    20 hours ago, charliearon said:

    Close to you @Mike A  1700 block of 22nd ave. in the Sunset!

    Yeah, that was serious. My wife’s cousin lives on 22nd Ave. three blocks from there. We’re close to Sloat Blvd. Over 100 fire fighters responded.  Nightmare scenario for SFFD is the Sunset with all the attached wood frame houses and frequent wind, potential for a blaze to get out of hand quickly. So if there’s an explosion like that, there’s going to be an immediate large response. (attn Moderator(s): sorry for off-topic color commentary, but since I was cited in a post, it wouldn’t have been polite for me not to respond 😏)

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    7 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

    Back in the early 1970s when I lived in San Diego, the regulations about military aircraft going supersonic near or over land were much more lax. We used to hear sonic booms all the time.

    I can confirm that. Growing up here in San Francisco in the 1960s-1970s we would hear sonic booms frequently. In addition to AFBs in Northern California, we also had Alameda NAS, and those guys would do extra curricular “stuff” like flying under the Golden Gate Bridge.

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  9. Posted · Edited by charliearon
    copyright pics

    I was writing this post before you posted, so we must be on the same wavelength 😂

    This livery is an all-time favorite of mine, the United Mainliner.  Hometown bias of mine, as United always had a major hub in San Francisco:

     

    Clean, simple, beautiful shade of blue with a thin gold line separating white from aluminum.  Also, my first flight at 5 yrs old was on a United DC-8 from San Francisco to Chicago in 1962.

    Now this one, for me, qualifies for both categories.  At first sight, it's awful!!

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    What I like about it is the wordplay on "Fliegen"  As a verb, the sentence translates "We love to fly".  As a noun, it translates as "We love flies" (hence, the fly on the tail).

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  10. Posted · Edited by Mike A
    add P.S.

    3 hours ago, charliearon said:

    The PSA grinning bird 727 was my first commercial flight from KSFO to KLAX for $13.

    When I was a kid, my parents & I, after visiting relatives in San Jose, took off from there for Los Angeles to go to Disneyland.  The price was $17 then, which my father paid with cash, no reserved seats, and we walked out to the plane and entered through the rear airstair.  Can you imagine that today, paying cash for a ticket, just walk right out there on the tarmac, no security, get on the plane and find yourself a seat?  Those were different times 🤔

    P.S. Another thing I just remembered is at that time, PSA also had several locations in the aircraft where a row of seats faced backwards. So, if you had a group of people who were flying together, they could get in those rows and face each other, talk, play cards, etc.  At that time PSA was intra-California, so they were all relatively short flights, significant proportion of commuters.

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    It's amazing what can be done now with old films, the way they can tease out details.  Things like being able to clearly see reflections on shiny surfaces.

    A really outstanding documentary I saw was "They Shall Not Grow Old", which shows film from WWI.  The first clip is the trailer for the documentary and the second clip shows how they went about restoring and filling in all the details to bring the soldiers and their environment to life.

     

     

     

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  20. Posted · Edited by Mike A

    18 hours ago, birdguy said:

    https://www.speed-limits.com/newmexico

    New Mexico Speed Limit - Residential Areas

    The maximum speed limit on residential roads in New Mexico is 55 miles per hour. Residential roads have the most potential for speed-based accidents and collisions, so residential districts tend to have the lowest speed limits with the most strict enforcement policies.

    Whoa, Nellie!!!  55 MPH in residential areas?  I guess it has to do having a lower population density.  Imagine the chaos here in San Francisco with a 55 MPH residential speed limit; we're talking about Mad Max:

     

     

     

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    Years ago I read an article about children’s experiences with flying, and my favorite one was a very young girl on her first flight who sometime after takeoff asked the stewardess “When do we start shrinking?” Her only experience with aircraft before had been watching planes leaving and arriving at the airport; from her perspective departing planes got smaller and arriving ones got larger.

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