Close to Home by John McPherson for April 30, 2021

It might be just a tad bit noisy. But hey, a ladder and hook on a rope and you get free rides to wherever. If you are good with Airline schedules you might even go where you want to.

Hi Bleeb, I know the people are kind of crazy here, but you should be used to it by now.

And you get free delivery of blue ice.

You won’t get any sleep thought due to the roar of the jet engines.;-D

Hang on for dear life, Bleeb!!

Lived and worked near LAX for years. When I could I would drive out as far away and as quiet as possible.

Well that is Close to Home.

Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Cool I can hitch a ride on the landing gear

I love people who move next to airports or golf courses and then go ballistic over the noise and golf balls. Then they try to get them shut down even though they were there prior to the development.

I grew up with the county airport about 3 miles on one side and a major SAC (B-52s) base 5 miles on the other. I miss the noise.

How low can you go?

JFK Intl. was just across Jamaica Bay from us. >Whaaat?<

I remember when I was a teen, riding past the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, seeing tire tracks on roofs of houses on the approach…

I grew up 3 blocks from the end of a runway at a less busy municipal airport. Dad said when he bought the house in 1955 that they will never have jets at this airport. That lasted about 3 years.

Looks a bit more like seven seconds

I used to live there: Flushing, Queens. Between JFK and Laguardia airports. Planes passing overhead every three minutes and pellet-like soot from dumped fuel on everything. Wonderful for TV reception, too.

“Hot Dang, I nailed it again!”

“You sure did, Captain…. that might just be your record! There’s no way to really measure it, but I swear I saw some shingles flappin’!”

Not for long…..

Years ago I lived in a tiny apartment near an airport. The distance from my couch to the TV was maybe 5 feet, tops, but when the airplanes flew over I could not hear the TV, even turned up.

When I was in the Navy, the building that housed my air control squadron was directly across the street from the end of the runway at the Norfolk airport, and we had airliners going over us at extremely low altitude on a regular basis. Made holding meetings quite interesting.

I think that house is just plane out of the question.

My Aunt’s house was in the flight path (departing) of the airport, with jets coming & going at all hours. She said she got used to it, and could sleep through the noise!!

Still $700,000 in Orange County California…