In the 60s my dad worked for a year at Bell Helicopter, near Irving, TX; one of their test pilots lived next door, and would often circle his house in a Huey at *low* altitude, waving to his kids out the open cockpit window. 🚁
Very glad I moved away from what were apparently night training flights for Ospreys over a tidal creek. Wilmington's near Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point etc. though, so the military crowds the skies over town
When we lived in Los Angeles we were like ten miles east of the Colosseum. Once or twice a year a couple a F16s would do a flyover before the USC game and it would knock me right off the couch...
I lived in Echo Park for a couple of years. My apartment looked right out onto a rooftop used as a helipad ,so helicopters were landing and taking off all the time. I was accustomed to LA freeway white noise, but I never grew accustomed to all that helicopter noise. If I really wanted to have that in my life, I'd move toTijuana.
We live in a city with a major Air Force base nearby so you never know what you're going to see zipping across or hovering high in the sky around here.
I grew up under a regular flight path for those big double rotor Sykorskis. Dunno where they were going nor where they were coming from besides East-West
I grew up under the flight path for B-52s departing Westover AFB, back when SAC kept nuke bombers in the air at all times. Eight engines, at full throttle; you'd just halt conversation until the noise died down.
Aw, you are a sweetie! Back to school, back to reality. No more goofing around! (I say as I intend at the end of the week to goof around and go to visit a friend with house near the beach.)
I live roughly right smack between our local Air National Guard base,and the Canadian border. Every so often one of those babies will fly over, pretty low, headed towards Canada. Just in case those crazy Windsorites decide to invade us weirdo Detroiters I guess?
Reminds me of when I was a boy, living in a small town in Central Texas, hard by the Fort Hood military reservation. The First Air Cavalry Division was getting prepped to deploy to Vietnam, and one day a loose formation of three dozen Huey helicopters flew over town.
Imagine being a seven-year-old army brat and seeing that. I was, and it's something I've never forgotten.
There was a small private airport called Speed's down the road from LaGuardia in Queens (College Point Boulevard). That's where the skywriter planes - all small, old, single pilot propeller planes - took off from. My dad took me there in the late 60s to kill time when I was a preschooler. Back then, you could go onto the roof of the main terminal at LaGuardia to watch the jets too. There were even benches.
I remember as a preteen, super into WWII aircraft, going to the Confederate Airforce show; lots of WWII aircraft. I was busy identifying all the planes when I ran across one I couldn’t place. My mom says “that’s a P61 Black Widow” and I’m all like WTF? She lived by Davis Montham airbase in Tucson during the war and knew ALL the planes, US, British, Japanese and German. One of my first realizations that our parents were already people before I can on the scene.
An old friend of mine used to work for Boeing (back when they did quality control). He maintained till his last breath that helicopters are not flying machines, they are instruments of the devil.
Small correction—I know the LA Times article on the Klamath River focuses on California tribes, but I don’t think they even mentioned that the Klamath tribes in Oregon were part of the effort too as the river flows through 4 reservations between the two states.
Time travel: This is late-2000s and an artist I had been following since 1999. I believe her career ended because her bass player was clearly a Terminator:
But here's a suggestion: Design a Walz sticker or poster with an "America's Coach" theme. This would resonate with the majority sportsball-obsessed demographic, many of whom may be Undecideds, Not Paying Attentions, or Disenchanted Republicans. They are legion and becoming legioner.
Fred Trump III, former President Trump’s nephew, said in an interview Monday that his uncle “doesn’t give a shit” about people who serve in the military.
He also recalled meeting the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — a Vietnam War-era prisoner of war — and knocked his uncle for frequently criticizing McCain.
“‘This is a genuine hero, OK, let’s make no mistake about it,” the younger Trump said on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” referring to McCain. “The fact that Donald called him, in essence, a loser, I don’t get it.”
"Renowned author Dan Brown gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses, flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in."
I would trade all of Dan Brown's books for this one sentence.
"The Guardian says Trump rally fans are getting bored of his stale shit."
I cannot understand why his supporters weren't bored to DEATH from the beginning.
Trump is so fucking dull. His rambling does nothing but deaden thought. His "rallies" are full of nothing but empty promises and narcissistic boasting and taking down other people. He does nothing but make ugly, meaningless noises out of his puckered mouth hole.
One might as well be listening to a clothes dryer going around and around - one with a live raccoon inside.
"Services like those provided by Bassett use confrontation and exercises to deprogram a child’s rejection of a parent. In extreme cases, children have been sent across state lines to reunification camps with parents they reject, and they are barred from having contact with their protective parent."
They also heard from Trump in what was billed as a “fireside chat” with Justice, which jumped from topic to topic (𝑒𝑑.: 𝑆𝑜𝑓𝑡-𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑁𝑌𝑇.) such as Ivanka’s clothing line, his mother’s Scottish origins, and his reality TV show, the Apprentice.
Trump and Justice also talked about transgender students participating in sports. Justice said that there has been “an explosion in the number of children who identify as transgender” and asked what he would be “able to do as president.”
“Well, you can do everything,” Trump said. “The president has such power.”
Giant helicopter that flew right over my house is your hed gif today. Here's more info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/operation-tab-drop?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/041fea42-90b5-4f1d-a6c0-c63b1069097f
hi martini! i don't know where your house is that the helicopter flew above, but i'm going to be a lot closer to it than i usually am! whooppwhoop!
usually: sf bay area
tomorrow: little village north of strasbourg, then beaune, then paah-reee!
I’m not very close to either of those, but commenter oblivias just moved to Strausbourg about a month ago. Maybe you two can meet up 😃
Have a wonderful trip!
Around here it's USCG helos. It is no longer the local comander going to play golf with his buddies. He got sacked.
We had the Blue Angels last Thursday-Monday. There's an airshow a few miles east of here and they practice when they aren't performing
i hate the blue angels. sadly will be back from france in time to see them above my house.
In the 60s my dad worked for a year at Bell Helicopter, near Irving, TX; one of their test pilots lived next door, and would often circle his house in a Huey at *low* altitude, waving to his kids out the open cockpit window. 🚁
I feel for you!
I grew up on different bases overseas (parents were teachers) and the schools always seemed to be built next to the flightline, (deliberate?).
Everyday, (at least once), we would have to pause class for planes warming up or taking off.
(The fighters flew in threes, so we would count them before we resumed.)
Very glad I moved away from what were apparently night training flights for Ospreys over a tidal creek. Wilmington's near Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point etc. though, so the military crowds the skies over town
When we lived in Los Angeles we were like ten miles east of the Colosseum. Once or twice a year a couple a F16s would do a flyover before the USC game and it would knock me right off the couch...
I lived in Echo Park for a couple of years. My apartment looked right out onto a rooftop used as a helipad ,so helicopters were landing and taking off all the time. I was accustomed to LA freeway white noise, but I never grew accustomed to all that helicopter noise. If I really wanted to have that in my life, I'd move toTijuana.
We live in a city with a major Air Force base nearby so you never know what you're going to see zipping across or hovering high in the sky around here.
I grew up under a regular flight path for those big double rotor Sykorskis. Dunno where they were going nor where they were coming from besides East-West
I grew up under the flight path for B-52s departing Westover AFB, back when SAC kept nuke bombers in the air at all times. Eight engines, at full throttle; you'd just halt conversation until the noise died down.
We have planes from Westover flying over us all the time. No B-52's though.
This is fun
https://www.flightradar24.com/42.30,-73.23/6
It's amazing to see how many planes are in the sky at any given time. Click on a plane, it'll give you what information is available (as a lurker)
When our illustrious VP was in Pittsfield, a MSP chopper circled our area for an hour or more, buncha subversives here I tell ya!
Holly uses that too. Some have no info so military I guess.
My brother lives in Concord NH, not far from the National Guard. Unsurprisingly, their activities are not on the site.
Last time I visited Chicopee, it was C-5s practicing takeoffs and landings all day long. (Loud drone is an improvement over the previous thunder.)
You might be seeing F-15s out of Barnes.
Yes to the F-15s from Barnes but we get buzzed by smaller transport planes flying very low (Holly says the term is flying terrain). C-130's
"X" feet AGL. Scary.
Not many helicopters near me, but I do live about 2 miles away from Goodyear's Blimp Base 1 near Akron. See them a LOT during football season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9DdxoYsIjQ
Good morning sunshine! I so miss you when you're away, hon. The conventions this summer almost broke me! 😁 Have a wonderful day, my friend.
Aw, you are a sweetie! Back to school, back to reality. No more goofing around! (I say as I intend at the end of the week to goof around and go to visit a friend with house near the beach.)
Baby steps, Martini, baby steps! A little goofing around is good for the soul. You got this, honey!
I live roughly right smack between our local Air National Guard base,and the Canadian border. Every so often one of those babies will fly over, pretty low, headed towards Canada. Just in case those crazy Windsorites decide to invade us weirdo Detroiters I guess?
They might need to pick something up at Trader Joe's.
Or Blader Joe's for rotor parts and maintenance.
Navy base in Jacksonville regularly flies two past our house over the ocean. They are loud as loud can be.
Once upon a time, I rented close to a hospital with a helipad...
Gets old, helicopters flying right over one's home...
The realtor didn't say one word about it, neither!
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that the realtor didn't say one word!
I know, right? BASTARDS!
Helicopters are so loud!!!
We lived by Stanford, and could hear band practice at night.
Almost made up for the helicopters.
Almost.
I'm right next to I-395, the route for Marine 1 when going to the White House to pick up the president.
When I commute, I take VRE through Quantico. Sometimes I see an Executive Helo there, mostly I see the V-22s.
And I see the new one just became operational.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_VH-92_Patriot
When we lived in student housing, we were in the flight path of DFW airport.
Was it Irving? I grew up there and remember many, many, many planes in my childhood background memories.
Arlington, actually.
Egads, even worse! DFW was literally in your backyard. But you made it out to tell the story, and that's all that matters. We both made it through!
Mission Beach in San Diego is in the flight path of the airport. Not nearly as busy as DFW, but busy enough when you're trying to take a vacation.
We camped one night right across the inlet from the Navy. Every 15 minutes all night long. Weirdest campsite ever.
We camped on Whidbey Island right under the landing path for a huge fleet of fighter jets. Damn it was loud.
We camped at a spot right next to a bridge. It was picturesque. It was also trafficked heavily by semis. All night.
Because it's a bridge to Somewhere.
Reminds me of when I was a boy, living in a small town in Central Texas, hard by the Fort Hood military reservation. The First Air Cavalry Division was getting prepped to deploy to Vietnam, and one day a loose formation of three dozen Huey helicopters flew over town.
Imagine being a seven-year-old army brat and seeing that. I was, and it's something I've never forgotten.
Did your seven year old self say " Wow, wouldn't it be cool to be part of that?" That's why the military trawls at air shows for young recruits.
I loved air shows when I was a kid. And Armed Forces Day, too. My brother and I would beg our parents to take us.
Every year, my ol' man took us to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, out in Red Hook NY. Old timey aircraft. It was great.
That's my neck of the woods. Still is, actually.
To this day, for me, an airplane isn't an airplane unless it has a propeller.
There was a small private airport called Speed's down the road from LaGuardia in Queens (College Point Boulevard). That's where the skywriter planes - all small, old, single pilot propeller planes - took off from. My dad took me there in the late 60s to kill time when I was a preschooler. Back then, you could go onto the roof of the main terminal at LaGuardia to watch the jets too. There were even benches.
I remember as a preteen, super into WWII aircraft, going to the Confederate Airforce show; lots of WWII aircraft. I was busy identifying all the planes when I ran across one I couldn’t place. My mom says “that’s a P61 Black Widow” and I’m all like WTF? She lived by Davis Montham airbase in Tucson during the war and knew ALL the planes, US, British, Japanese and German. One of my first realizations that our parents were already people before I can on the scene.
Wow, I can only imagine. Three dozen!
I stood, looking up and counting, and saying, "Wow, Mom! Look at that! That's thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six . . . there's thirty-six of them!"
did you hear "the ride of the walkyries" in the background?
Martini One
It flies by and says "Hi"
Drops a package from the sky
With curiosity, she peers in
And sees vermouth, olives and gin!
Martini One, my darling can't you hear me?
S. O. S.
The gin you gave me, nothing else can save me.
S. O. S.
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try, how can I carry on?
Wouldn’t Peggy Noonan love having gin falling from the sky?
Perfect! ❤️❤️❤️
HeliTABS! (+ birb)
Q: What type of helicopter is it?
A: ...a working one?
Helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission.
An old friend of mine used to work for Boeing (back when they did quality control). He maintained till his last breath that helicopters are not flying machines, they are instruments of the devil.
What do you call a helicopter whose rotors have stopped turning?
-- A rock.
Scrap metal.
And they're super mad at Isaac Newton:
https://substack.com/@andrewheard/note/c-67615323
Small correction—I know the LA Times article on the Klamath River focuses on California tribes, but I don’t think they even mentioned that the Klamath tribes in Oregon were part of the effort too as the river flows through 4 reservations between the two states.
https://ictnews.org/news/undamming-the-klamath-
Spent many years kayaking the Klamath! Glad it has finally been set free!
Honor and Respect to the Yurok Nation.
You were always so kind to us. CONGRATULATIONS!
I like Dan Brown books. But I is only an engineer, not a Doktor of Rhetoric.
A very short clip from Jeff Tedriech that proves the adage: There are two kinds of people in this world: Ted Cruz and people who hate Ted Cruz:
https://youtu.be/aurQ7KoMOPw?si=iu7jexCLgqaIEF0o
Fuck Ted Cruz.
Time travel: This is late-2000s and an artist I had been following since 1999. I believe her career ended because her bass player was clearly a Terminator:
:)
Keri Noble: "Emily" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAOFfx5n8Bo
She has a media career now, after she made this masterwork:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucotqBMZNdU
Hey Shy! Love the Walz merch!
But here's a suggestion: Design a Walz sticker or poster with an "America's Coach" theme. This would resonate with the majority sportsball-obsessed demographic, many of whom may be Undecideds, Not Paying Attentions, or Disenchanted Republicans. They are legion and becoming legioner.
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐰: 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 ‘𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭’ 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬
Fred Trump III, former President Trump’s nephew, said in an interview Monday that his uncle “doesn’t give a shit” about people who serve in the military.
He also recalled meeting the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — a Vietnam War-era prisoner of war — and knocked his uncle for frequently criticizing McCain.
“‘This is a genuine hero, OK, let’s make no mistake about it,” the younger Trump said on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” referring to McCain. “The fact that Donald called him, in essence, a loser, I don’t get it.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4859482-donald-trump-nephew-soldiers-military/
"Renowned author Dan Brown gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses, flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in."
I would trade all of Dan Brown's books for this one sentence.
Why (or even, how) would any brunette, pulchritudinous or otherwise, have blonde tresses?
Ask MTG.
"The Klamath River, as advocated by California tribes for at least the past 25 years, finally undammed."
"The Undammed" would be a great title for a documentary about this.
One could screen it as the second part of a double feature with Visconti's "The Damned."
"The Guardian says Trump rally fans are getting bored of his stale shit."
I cannot understand why his supporters weren't bored to DEATH from the beginning.
Trump is so fucking dull. His rambling does nothing but deaden thought. His "rallies" are full of nothing but empty promises and narcissistic boasting and taking down other people. He does nothing but make ugly, meaningless noises out of his puckered mouth hole.
One might as well be listening to a clothes dryer going around and around - one with a live raccoon inside.
"Services like those provided by Bassett use confrontation and exercises to deprogram a child’s rejection of a parent. In extreme cases, children have been sent across state lines to reunification camps with parents they reject, and they are barred from having contact with their protective parent."
This is some sick shit in CO family court.
I would venture to guess that the family court is run by Mormons or other culty evangelicals.
F Netanyahu. He is a terrible person
𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩?
They also heard from Trump in what was billed as a “fireside chat” with Justice, which jumped from topic to topic (𝑒𝑑.: 𝑆𝑜𝑓𝑡-𝑝𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑁𝑌𝑇.) such as Ivanka’s clothing line, his mother’s Scottish origins, and his reality TV show, the Apprentice.
Trump and Justice also talked about transgender students participating in sports. Justice said that there has been “an explosion in the number of children who identify as transgender” and asked what he would be “able to do as president.”
“Well, you can do everything,” Trump said. “The president has such power.”
The audience cheered and applauded.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-education/2024/09/03/can-moms-for-liberty-save-trump-00176993
Kaos is indeed great. We finished E2 last night, and ...just wow.
I see Kaos and think "Get Smart". But I am old.
Me too and me too. And if THAT Kaos was the subject of the series, with this cast, I'd still watch the hell out of it.
Oh, hell yes!
(I will watch Jeff Goldblum in anything.)
"Rick Perlstein"
Haven't heard much from that guy in a while. I really like his stuff and I wonder what he's been up to.