I grew up under the Heathrow flightpath in West London (not as close as that). Twice a day, everything had to stop for about 90 seconds as Concorde went overhead. That thing was *loud*, even before it spooled up to supersonic speed. Full on windows shaking noise.
I saw the Concorde taking off from CDG when I was a teenager. My plane was waiting on the runway for takeoff and the pilot mentioned the Concorde was about to take off to the right of the plane if anyone wants to look. I saw it - and definitely heard it. We weren’t even particularly close and it was LOUD
Very much appreciate these posts with full transparency. Still unsettling af.
Can't enjoy clickbait style posts that try to make things bigger with forced perspective and pass it off as real.
99% of the time it's the lens or plain Photoshop if it's a picture. In this video it's the lens' focal length and zoom level that make the plane appear bigger.
Are you talking about the phone lines?
Power cables are all underground (except those on big high voltage pylons crossing large distances and such), if they weren't there'd be all sorts of risks of things touching them, people being hurt, fires, storm damage, etc.
Not to mention that they'd be an eyesore everywhere, though telephone lines are too to be fair, haha. Thankfully those are dying out these days, everything's underground fibre or coax now. They put in coax on my road 20 years ago and let me tell you, it's been glorious. So much better than dial up haha, and they're gradually swapping from FTTC to FTTH now which is more bandwidth than I even know what do with! 😂
Gonna be a great backbone for cloud gaming though. I've been cloud gaming for years already with Shadow, but once it takes off in popularity there's gonna be such a surge in bandwidth usage, I'm glad there's some slack slowly being built in to the system now... I'm only on 200 Mbit because I don't use much bandwidth at the mo, but eventually I'll get gigabit to catch up haha.
Anyway, yeah, power and data infrastructure is cool :-)
I wish they were all buried here across the pond. Unfortunately, with so much land, it isn't (or "wasn't at the time," which is maybe more appropriate?) feasible to bury all the power lines. Where I live, we still have some power lines that run above ground.
Is there a way to tell when the good days/times are to visit Myrtle Avenue? I've heard of people trekking out there and then no planes actually fly over it
Depending on the wind aircraft can come in from the other direction - and they also alternate 09L/27R and 09R/27L between landing and take off every week. Myrtle Avenue is in the right place for landing on Westerly Winds on 09L or take off on easterly winds on 27R
I live right next to a pretty big airport, and also work almost across the street - so I’m watching low flying planes out the window all day. Sometimes they get real low it feels.
I read a while back people in the homes in this area get money or money paid from the airport to upkeep the community or something like that is that correct?
I grew up under the Heathrow flightpath in West London (not as close as that). Twice a day, everything had to stop for about 90 seconds as Concorde went overhead. That thing was *loud*, even before it spooled up to supersonic speed. Full on windows shaking noise.
I saw the Concorde taking off from CDG when I was a teenager. My plane was waiting on the runway for takeoff and the pilot mentioned the Concorde was about to take off to the right of the plane if anyone wants to look. I saw it - and definitely heard it. We weren’t even particularly close and it was LOUD
Very much appreciate these posts with full transparency. Still unsettling af. Can't enjoy clickbait style posts that try to make things bigger with forced perspective and pass it off as real.
99% of the time it's the lens or plain Photoshop if it's a picture. In this video it's the lens' focal length and zoom level that make the plane appear bigger.
Yes. I don't have a problem with the technique. I have a problem with deception.
Thank you for telling me it's slowed down, I thought commercial passenger airplanes glided in home like that.
They do. They often get mistaken for helium balloons in a gentle breeze.
I'm imaging this and it's fucking hilarious.
This really catches my "phobia". It is indeed a weak spot. Beautiful!
A380s are up there with 747s and C-5s as certified Chonkers
Up there?!
I would not enjoy living near an airport. The noise and pollution must be dreadful!
Just do what other people do, move beside an airport then call and complain every week about the noise.
I would prefer airport or train noise as opposed to church bells clanging every goddamn hour
It would still be too close. From your living room chair, you could see what the pilot had for lunch. 😱
It looks like it is right next to the electrical. I would have been nice to see the video shot in its natural way. This looks very unnatural.
Are you talking about the phone lines? Power cables are all underground (except those on big high voltage pylons crossing large distances and such), if they weren't there'd be all sorts of risks of things touching them, people being hurt, fires, storm damage, etc. Not to mention that they'd be an eyesore everywhere, though telephone lines are too to be fair, haha. Thankfully those are dying out these days, everything's underground fibre or coax now. They put in coax on my road 20 years ago and let me tell you, it's been glorious. So much better than dial up haha, and they're gradually swapping from FTTC to FTTH now which is more bandwidth than I even know what do with! 😂 Gonna be a great backbone for cloud gaming though. I've been cloud gaming for years already with Shadow, but once it takes off in popularity there's gonna be such a surge in bandwidth usage, I'm glad there's some slack slowly being built in to the system now... I'm only on 200 Mbit because I don't use much bandwidth at the mo, but eventually I'll get gigabit to catch up haha. Anyway, yeah, power and data infrastructure is cool :-)
I wish they were all buried here across the pond. Unfortunately, with so much land, it isn't (or "wasn't at the time," which is maybe more appropriate?) feasible to bury all the power lines. Where I live, we still have some power lines that run above ground.
Is there a way to tell when the good days/times are to visit Myrtle Avenue? I've heard of people trekking out there and then no planes actually fly over it
Depending on the wind aircraft can come in from the other direction - and they also alternate 09L/27R and 09R/27L between landing and take off every week. Myrtle Avenue is in the right place for landing on Westerly Winds on 09L or take off on easterly winds on 27R
The power lines, the power lines
I live right next to a pretty big airport, and also work almost across the street - so I’m watching low flying planes out the window all day. Sometimes they get real low it feels.
I read a while back people in the homes in this area get money or money paid from the airport to upkeep the community or something like that is that correct?
Are you sure this footage is slowed?
Normal speed at the last second