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Topic: Low flying aircraft
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starstruck
Member Posts: 600
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted August 31, 2010 03:57 PM
 
Hey this place has style!
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cgm
Member Posts: 386
From: Wimberley
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted August 31, 2010 04:21 PM
Helicoptors hovering above remind me of the years in Hou........but those were police helicopters. Now when I hear them, I don't duck & cover anymore.
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Mr Chievous
Member Posts: 124
From: Wimberley, TX USofA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted August 31, 2010 04:59 PM
I've noticed a real increase in this type of traffic over the past 2-3 years. Not an every day thing, but certainly every week if you've got some awareness of it. More of the sound of invasion rather than freedom, to me.
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grnthumb
Member Posts: 71
From: Wimberley
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted August 31, 2010 05:30 PM
That's just what I was thinking - sound of invasion. Bet those who hear it over yonder are more likely to agree with that, too.Actually there was a lot more of it back in the Bush presidency. Military helicopters sometimes many times a day. We figured it was Bush's Iraq war or military escort for Rove and Rumsfeld up to the ranch in Crawford. Yeah, yeah. Now the military guys are going to land on me with both feet, ouch. But only reporting facts (the numbers). Don't shoot the messenger, guys, please. Adding to the list, how about all those fireworks just about the time you're ready to drift off to sleep when a certain place that sells weddings shoots them off, wet or dry season? Complete with giant US flag, although I don't get the connection. Now that's a sound we never learned to love and always watched for the cedar fire when the aerials landed who knows where. [This message has been edited by grnthumb (edited August 31, 2010).]
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umlaut
Member Posts: 21
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Registered: Aug 2010
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posted August 31, 2010 06:07 PM
I imagine the C-130 noise was a lot less than the ruckus in New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001. I remember the next day when no airplanes were to be heard except the comforting sound of F16 and F15 fighters guarding against further harm from the Muslim Extremists. There will always the “Eloi” that ignore the “Morlocks” and don’t seem to understand that our freedoms were not obtained through negotiations or litigation. Our military is one of the few things that works well in our government and let’s hope it continues. I’d like to see the return of the Draft for both sexes much like Israel. During my career I was fortunate enough to witness a multi megaton thermonuclear detonation in the Pacific and a Saturn V launch, now there’s some real quality Sounds of Freedom. God Bless our Military!
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Mr Chievous
Member Posts: 124
From: Wimberley, TX USofA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted August 31, 2010 06:15 PM
Oooookay....Gosh, not sure what I should do tonight. Stand and salute or bake an apple pie.
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rockhound
Member Posts: 29
From: Wimberly
Registered: Sep 2005
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posted August 31, 2010 07:01 PM
Or have sweet dreams of multi megaton thermonuclear detonations. Oh boy.Geez, it takes all kinds. "Human beans" aren't going to make it to 2040 at this rate.
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starstruck
Member Posts: 600
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted August 31, 2010 07:34 PM
Oh lighten up Rockhound. May I suggest abusing alcohol or drugs? One of our many freedoms frequently embraced by our defenders but shunned by our perceived adversarys.
James Dickey (Deliverance)used to say that he loved getting drunk the way Patton loved war. Get with the program. Think of former Wimberley resident Slim Pickens riding that bomb down over Russia in Dr. Strangelove and be at one with the concept.
Remember we beans are not only tough but adaptable, don't worry about a little collateral radiation damage....just chill with some swill.[This message has been edited by starstruck (edited August 31, 2010).]
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cgm
Member Posts: 386
From: Wimberley
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted August 31, 2010 08:54 PM
Slim Pickens was from Wimberley ????
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starstruck
Member Posts: 600
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted August 31, 2010 09:01 PM
No no. But he lived here briefly in the 70s and early 80s.
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gslick7511
Member Posts: 35
From: Wimberley, Texas, Hays
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted August 31, 2010 09:21 PM
I think I'm baking a pie like Mr. Chievous suggested! We have 50% for and 50% against! That's WIMBERLEY!
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starstruck
Member Posts: 600
From: Hays
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted August 31, 2010 09:23 PM
By the way,over time so has Peter Gent the author of North Dallas Forty, Leon Jaworski the special prosecutor in Watergate, one of the FBI agents in the Warren Commission investigations of the JFK murder (Manning Clements, he's in the Wimberley cemetery). Musicians include Will and Charlie Sexton, alive and well and the wiley Ray guy. A sister of a former Speaker of The House lives here still. The rich and famous? Well we are not that, but it is a destination of choice. Plus there are all sorts of dead confederates in the bone orchard too.
'Cept for that damnable noise this might be a good place to live.
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Jim
Member Posts: 121
From: Wimberley, Texas USA
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted August 31, 2010 09:25 PM
Yep, Slim hosted the March of Dimes arts and crafts fund raiser along Cypress Creek at Woodcreek. I was lucky enough to visit with him several times and he was a very very nice gentleman. He probably never met a stranger.
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rockhound
Member Posts: 29
From: Wimberly
Registered: Sep 2005
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posted September 01, 2010 09:48 AM
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning..."(Hey umlaut - don't forget the smells!!!)
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Reddog
Member Posts: 409
From: dripping springs, tx, usa
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted September 01, 2010 09:52 AM
Many years ago while a poor grad student, I lived under the flight path of Bergstrom AFB, nothing like a couple of F-4s roaring overhead to bring a conversation to a halt.
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