NORAD intercepting Air France 68 now (plane has landed without incident)

me

[BurbankKarl]

if you have a good scanner in So Cal, tune to 271.0, set it in AM mode and listen to Norad intercept Air France flight 68, due at LAX 515pm

two F16s from AZ current refueling off Pacific

[eyespysomething]

back in the gee whiz computer days.

[nicmarlo]

LOL! (not funny, but I'm laughing, anyways!)

[Petronski]

NO, please don't pull it yet. I've been waiting 21 minutes and can see about 20 pixels, I'm almost there. LOL

I was going to post the size in my complaint above, but my DSL has still EVER to load it, so I had to guess.

[FreedomPoster]

European user? Or Asian? African?

Somewhere to the east of EST, that's for sure.

[MJY1288]

"640x480 GIF (uncompressed)"

Good Googa Mooga, That's not a file, that's the whole folder

[Quilla]

Cool screen name - welcome to Free Republic.

[Triple Word Score]

Good grief. Some of us see "intercepted" and think "shot down." It shouldn't take reading so many posts to figure out that this hasn't happened.

[JETDRVR]

Hmmmmm interesting indeed! Any further details? .........or was it "FCFFE" Flight crew fat finger error eg those Collins RTU's you go to switch freqs and doesnt 7700 show up in the squawk....dammedest thing I ever saw ;) True story , a Priv GlobalExpress dun got intercepted by the canadians forced to land in Winnepeg ehh;) all courtesy of FCFFE. Now imagine explaining that one to the old man in the back heheheheheh

[Delta 21]

I played "ACE" for hours and hours on this thing!!!

[Old Student]

"Why would terrorists
use incoming foreign planes?
No on-board fuel left!"

not necessarily; what a long-range passenger aircraft considers running on fumes still has a heck of a lot of jet fuel on it, if you think in terms of 1-gallon gascans. A pint in a 1 gallon can is capable of leveling your house. Set it on fire and spray it over your neighborhood and you'll fire a bunch of houses.

[cmsgop]

Can anybody tell me the elevation of Duvall,WA ???? Im Series!

[Quilla]

'Escorted' would be a better word. When the shuttle (jeeze, I forgot the name) came in for its landing, a very similar thread was started. FR scooped every media source that sad day.

[MJY1288]

Wasn't the hard drive capacity on those original Tandy 2000's something like 100 MB

[BureaucratusMaximus]

I agree, I have a cble modem and that pic must be on a "Tandy 2000" Server

Hey...it must be a Tandy 2000 LX, as the EX model only came with a built-in 5 and 1/4 floppy. Good times. Wonder if its a monochrome display?

[Petronski]

You want pain? I'll show you pain:

My first computer. LOL

[A Citizen Reporter]

Your pretty bossy for being here just two days, aren't you?

[MJY1288]

LOL, There's that beast, who would have ever guessed we would have gone from that Tandy 2000 to tracking jetliners around the globe at warp speed :-)

[nuffsenuff]

More like KB's not MB's...

But I am not certain.

[TomGuy]

My first (that I used, couldn't afford the $6,000 to buy):



circa 1980

[July 4th]

100MB? No way...those came in around 1990 I think. I'd say lop a zero off that number - 10MB.