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Nasa WB-57 Orbiting At FL490 On 9/11 Scares Ppl  
User currently offlineKDTWflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 807 posts, RR: 1
Posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 6924 times:

I searched the forums to see if this had already been covered and didn't find it so forgive me if its already been posted. But on this past 9/11 some genius at NASA decided to orbit a WB-57 at FL490 over Houston. Apparently it freaked some people out.

Flight path here http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N...8/history/20100911/2200Z/KEFD/KEFD

Article here http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7196771.html


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User currently offlineoly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6226 posts, RR: 11
Reply 1, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 6885 times:

Quoting KDTWflyer (Thread starter):
Apparently it freaked some people out.

Were "some people" in no way disturbed by the very many aircraft that fly every day to HOU? And yet a contrail that's not a straight line is a source of panic.


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User currently offlineZANL188 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 3261 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 6862 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

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User currently offlinerfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6196 posts, RR: 25
Reply 3, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 6833 times:

It was at 49,000 feet. They could not even see the plane - just some contrails.

Now I'm sure that because I live near Dallas someone will say I'm biased - but I though folks in Houston were at least as smart as ........... Sooners.

User currently offlineXT6Wagon From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 3150 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 6791 times:

dumb people are dumb.

More likely to choke to death in your own home than be killed by a terrorist, forign or domestic.

Yet how much worry do they put into zomg the terrorists are comming vs food safety?

User currently offlineeksath From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 1154 posts, RR: 27
Reply 5, posted (2 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 6472 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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Quoting KDTWflyer (Thread starter):
But on this past 9/11 some genius at NASA decided to orbit a WB-57 at FL490 over Houston. Apparently it freaked some people out.

The presence of paranoid or uninformed people does not mean that normal aviation activity needs to be halted on that date. What would they like a ground stop,too?


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User currently offlineNASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3099 posts, RR: 5
Reply 6, posted (2 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 5095 times:

Quoting oly720man (Reply 1):
Were "some people" in no way disturbed by the very many aircraft that fly every day to HOU? And yet a contrail that's not a straight line is a source of panic.

Chemtrails man....  

Quoting rfields5421 (Reply 3):
It was at 49,000 feet. They could not even see the plane - just some contrails.

Remember just after 9-11 when commercial flights were grounded you could look up in the air and see the strange contrails that were going in circles of F-16s/F-15s etc patrolling the air as well as the occassional KC-135 up there to refuel them.
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