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These photos of low flying planes over downtown (one looks to be over the New Museum on Bowery) were taken last Friday. Have you noticed any others lately? The blogger who took these notes that while it's likely the planes flight paths were re-routed due to high winds, "the sight of planes above the skyline is usually a recipe for unease."
Recently Wired looked at redesigning the airspace over New York City, saying we are running out of it as air traffic continues to increase (causing even more delays). Currently it all "squeezes through a network of aerial routes first laid out for the mail planes of the 1920s."
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You retards
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn and Queens we can see airplane passengers' faces smushed up against the little greasy windows as they fly over.
ha! dammit! and yes!
That is a Swiss Air flight out of JFK.
Qantas, actually.
Your right. Quantas has the 747's. Swissair got rid of those a few years back.
And, only the vertical stabilizer is painted red on a Swissair plane, while Qantas, as shown, brings the red onto the fuselage.
puhleeze.
Uh...seriously? I live on the 33rd floor, I see low-flying planes all the frickin' time. Sometimes it's a bit alarming but uh...not newsworthy. Except the time the low-flying plane actually landed in the river. That was awesome.
Somebody blogged about it. That makes it newsworthy!
Judging by the scale, if those planes are anywhere close to the buildings they're just small replicas anyway, so not in any way dangerous.
Now if they're real planes, someone needs to take an art class or something and learn about perspective.
It was indeed related to the wind. The runway being used for arrivals at JFK was 13L, which is used pretty rarely, only when the wind is blowing over a certain speed from the southeast. This is happens a few times a year, but normally these conditions only exist during bad storms when the clouds are lower than the planes. You can see a map of the approach here: http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0903/00610IL13L.PDF
I'd be more worried about planes hitting one of the new apartment buildings in Flushing while landing instead of this.
They're not that low. At least 2000 feet. Everything looks closer when you're using a long telephoto lens.
At first. planes were limited to the 90th floor, then that changed to the 72nd floor, then they were banned briefly, now they can do whatever the hell they want.
Actually, they use 13L at JFK all the time. But, if it's VFR, you get the Parkway visual approach, which overflies Canarsie, skirts the edge of Jamaica Bay along the Shore Parkway, then turns final by the Aqueduct Race Track. Rarely do you get a straight-in for either 13s.
Also, those planes aren't any lower than 2000 feet.
Yawn. And another transplant finds a commonplace thing in NYC completely mindblowing.
These ppl oughta go to Canarsie Pier. They would probably orgasm.