Same here. Our first house had a crawl space, no basement, and we had a family of skunks living in the crawl space. They didn't bother us and we didn't bother them. Though my wife almost picked one up once thinking our black and white cat had gotten out...
Not me! 100LL piston exhaust, fine, but kerosene, no. You haven't lived until you've spent a 100° morning on the flight line at China Lake near where the jets run up after spending the previous night drinking with a bunch of Navy chiefs...
Yeah, pretty much.
Too funny.!!Though my wife almost picked one up once thinking our black and white cat had gotten out...
That makes at least 2 of us.
My first trip to China Lake was 1989 and it really resembled some sort of 1960's military base where everything was in the process of answering "can we?" do something with a weapon. Made a lot of trips back over the following years and worked some neat projects but decided that actually being stationed there wasn't for me. I was much more a Whidbey guy!Not me! 100LL piston exhaust, fine, but kerosene, no. You haven't lived until you've spent a 100° morning on the flight line at China Lake near where the jets run up after spending the previous night drinking with a bunch of Navy chiefs...
Last year they did one of those drone shows here. I got tired of it when it started. No big booms, no brightly colored flashes and no embers floating into the crowd. A real snooze fest.
Is your shameful confession that you find that game fun?
If you're close enough to hear them over the sound of the engine (and feel the thump in the floor) they'll give you quite the thrill.
Once you've launched a few HARMS bottle rockets lose their excitement.
I'm ambivalent to firework shows. The neighbors who launch fireworks until 2 AM gripe my ass. I could sleep through it, but our dogs go bananas. Also, when our son was tiny, they kept him up, which was mucho fun. I think that was the year that "we had a talk".
The affordable warbird:
I'm the same way with all planes. Outside of a few, I often have to punch in the N-Number to see what it is. Heck even once I met up with @JoeSelch for lunch and as we were leaving I was checking out a plane that was at the fuel pumps a hundred feet away or so, and didn't recognize it until I got right up to it. It was a Comanche. I caught some grief for that one.
The Oshkosh night airshow ones have kind of ruined all the other ones for me. Especially last year, where they had oodles of fireworks set to music AND airplanes flying and shooting fireworks, AND drones, AND pyro, including all at the same time sometimes. A fun sensory overload!
Yep. It needs all the other stuff listed above. When they were messing around with the drones on other nights it was a fun thing to watch while drinking and yakking about airplanes but it was nothing more than a minor fun distraction. "Oh look at the fighter in the sky."
I finally figured out how it should be done last year. One suburb not too far away does theirs on a lake. If you circle low enough and close enough and get both the fireworks and their reflection off the lake it's cool. Sorry for the poor quality, these are video screen captures:
Once you've launched a few HARMS bottle rockets lose their excitement.
Sounds like a bad morning at Oshkosh, although rarely that hotNot me! 100LL piston exhaust, fine, but kerosene, no. You haven't lived until you've spent a 100° morning on the flight line at China Lake near where the jets run up after spending the previous night drinking with a bunch of Navy chiefs...
Fast forward about 150 years, substitute trenches for trees, and they STILL hadn't figured it out. See Somme, battle of.
