Airplanes

[binkley]

The first few days after 9-11, it gave me pause to see commercial aircraft in the sky. It was the strangest feeling, as if I needed to hide. I was with my children and wanted to cover their eyes. My oldest, who was 9, pointed and asked worried questions about the planes.

Even now, I get that once in a while as I watch one of those huge craft move noislessly overhead, as if they aren't quite real.

 

[Bob Peale]

I can relate.

I pay a lot more attention to the planes flying over head.

 

[penguindance]

 

[glamorilla]

the weirdest thing for me was when the jets swept overhead manhattan right after the towers fell. there'd be silence and then the rumbling of a low flying jet would come and you start to think "oh shit!' wondering if its going to crash land in your back yard.and then there was the anthrax scare. that was trippy.

about a week ago as i was making my way to do laundry i hear yet another rumbling and turn to see a pillar of black smoke several hundreds yards in diameter rising into the sky. apparantly there was an explosion in some con ed plant a few blocks south of my studio and it was just a sight. all of 14th street became a wave of people running in the other direction.

total disaster movie.

welcome to new york.

 

[brokenbrainwave]

the moment I knew my families life had been changed for the worse was shortly after they allowed emergency medical flights to resume. The local hospitals flight pattern goes directly over my house when they are heading to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga. My then 6yo came screaming from his bed yelling "mommy, daddy dont let the bad guys get me".

 

[TWB]

I love airplanes. Not afraid of em.

click.

 

[~*sunkyssed_kym*~]

I agree Binkley. Where I live in Florida, there is a multitude of planes flying overhead. After 9-11, it was sort of spooky how deserted the sky was during the fight ban. I hadn't realized how used to the air traffic noise I had become.
It's sad how all of this has effected our children and the security they once felt about innocuous things such as passing airplanes.
I flew exactly a month to the day after the World Trade Center destruction. It wasn't bad, really. Not many people on the plane, but security was tight and I felt comfortable. Since then, I've crossed the Atlantic to England. I will continue to fly, because I can't drive or catch a train to England!

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

I don't pay attention anymore, but a day or two right after the attack, when all airliners were grounded, I woke up to a 747 or 777 really pooring on the juice right over my house. I live very near the Boeing 777 assembly plant, so once in a while a large airliner does fly over my house, but this guy was really going for it and it occured to me that the Boeing plant would make a decent target (it is the largest building in the world).

 

[Phoenyx]

I have flown twice since September 11th and had no problem.
I feel perfectly safe still.

The new security measures help.