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N0KFQ  > TODAY    03.08.15 15:03l 58 Lines 2369 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: RE: Today Aug 2
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Wow!  My last commercial flight was in 1985... I think I shall keep it
that way.

73,  K.O.  n0kfq
N0KFQ @ N0KFQ.#SWMO.MO.USA.NA
E-mail: kohiggs@gmail.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: KB2VXA
To: today@ww
Sent: 8/3/2015 06:19
Subject: Re: Today Aug 2

R:150803/1119Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:7612 [Boyanup] $:7612_VK6ZRT

From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To  : TODAY@WW

"Today, improvements in technology help to monitor the progression
and location of storms like the one that downed Flight 191."

One of those improvements I witnessed first hand, wind shear monitors that 
ring the airport that detect a microburst. That is a heavy downdraft of cold 
air pouring out of a cloud like water dumped from a bucket. I saw damage they 
cause in a wooded area, trees flattened in an outward radiating pattern. When 
working at Newark (NJ) International Airport now renamed Freedom 
International I often worked in a parking lot exit toll booth out in what may 
be called a remote outpost. On the 11-7 shift that would bore me to tears 
except for my scanner, at that location two sources of interference were 
heard, a buzz from the rotating radar 50 yards away and the wind shear 
monitors. They sounded off each in turn around the perimiter sending data to 
a central point, the sound of the bursts rose and fell depending on distance 
from me at one end of the property.

Sometimes these TODAY articles are a little off like this one. Right, the 
pilot seeing lightning ahead should have been more prudent BUT for two 
things, they often fly through thunderstorms and sometimes get hit by 
lightning with no trouble at all and little to nothing was known about 
microbursts. In fact I never heard the word until a few years after the 
crash. The other is the killer, remember I said I saw trees flattened? 
Imagine a plane hit by a microburst, it's like getting clobbered by a maul 
and there's no escape, the plane litterally gets knocked out of the sky.

"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality

73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.

Message timed by NIST: 03-Aug-2015 at 11:19 GMT


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