Airplanes Overhead
When you see an airplane flying over your house, do you ever think if someone in the plane is looking down on your house?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No.
Though having said that, I have been the one looking down... at my brother's home!
My work occasionally meant having to travel to Scotland from the South of England, and usually by one of the regional air-lines. On one such flight, looking down as we were descending I recognised a distinctive landscape feature near his home, then briefly, between trees, their and their neighbour's houses themselves! Obviously you can't look vertically down from one, and our 'plane was perhaps a mile or so to its West.
On another, returning, I assumer our approach to Southampton Airport would be a gentle circle down over The Solent or New Forest, even right round the Isle of Wight. In fact our last turn was over the town and so tight that we banked to what felt like over 60º, and so low that it almost looked as our wing-tip would knock a few TV ariels off the house roofs below my window - on the inside so downwards side, of the turn. It was rather alarming!
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For my part safely on [i]terra firma[/i]...
Apart from being aeroplanes or aircraft here, the vapour-trails show the commercial routes are some miles away at an altitude from which it would be impossible to see any details on the ground.
We see the occasional light 'plane, and more rarely military aircraft overhead, but do have lot of over-flying by helicopters from a training-base not far away. They can be noisy! Sometimes those big twin-rotor Chinook helicopters too - window-shaking things that they are.
If the occupants of any of even these low-altitude aircraft do bother to look down they would not see anything for me to worry about. They can't see vertically downwards from there anyway, only obliquely.
Though having said that, I have been the one looking down... at my brother's home!
My work occasionally meant having to travel to Scotland from the South of England, and usually by one of the regional air-lines. On one such flight, looking down as we were descending I recognised a distinctive landscape feature near his home, then briefly, between trees, their and their neighbour's houses themselves! Obviously you can't look vertically down from one, and our 'plane was perhaps a mile or so to its West.
On another, returning, I assumer our approach to Southampton Airport would be a gentle circle down over The Solent or New Forest, even right round the Isle of Wight. In fact our last turn was over the town and so tight that we banked to what felt like over 60º, and so low that it almost looked as our wing-tip would knock a few TV ariels off the house roofs below my window - on the inside so downwards side, of the turn. It was rather alarming!
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For my part safely on [i]terra firma[/i]...
Apart from being aeroplanes or aircraft here, the vapour-trails show the commercial routes are some miles away at an altitude from which it would be impossible to see any details on the ground.
We see the occasional light 'plane, and more rarely military aircraft overhead, but do have lot of over-flying by helicopters from a training-base not far away. They can be noisy! Sometimes those big twin-rotor Chinook helicopters too - window-shaking things that they are.
If the occupants of any of even these low-altitude aircraft do bother to look down they would not see anything for me to worry about. They can't see vertically downwards from there anyway, only obliquely.