I e always enjoyed flying on the 747. It was just incredible in the early 70s. I remember taking the Everett plant tour around 1975 and seeing them getting built. I still can see the videos of the wing stress tests and the test takeoff with too much rotation and the tail dragging a couple of hundred yards down the runway. Spectacular!
The FAA rerouted international flights in the SF Bay Area and I’m now treated to several a day making u-turns over my house at 5,000 feet. Good God they are LOUD.
My daughter took the Boeing plant tour about a year ago and said the security was very intense.
Was in the same way in 1975?
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I know.
I’m under the southern approach for SeaTac and the northern approach for McChord!
Sometimes about 4 in the morning I’ll hear a screech and a roar and will look up...
About three months ago I saw two planes, both commercial, one headed south, one headed northwest, only about two hundred feet clearance from each other, (one was higher the other was beneath it) I almost called the tower to see if they even knew about it.
Joe Sutter RULES !!!