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This is not a surprise: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/...from-nearby-jet.html http://www.airspacemag.com/fli...-big-jets-180960365/ This is on my bucket list, though I don't feel a need to get blasted. The runway is 7,546 feet. http://www.airnav.com/airport/TNCM | ||
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Morons... I'd like to be on the beach underneath, but standing at the fence is just stupid. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik The world's a dangerous place, we can help! http://portlandfirearmtraining.com/ | |||
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| 186,000 miles per second. It's the law. |
Darwin award | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Without reading anything but the subject line and having seen the area: Good. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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I've done that a couple times before. I prefer sitting at the adjacent Sunset Beach Bar, though. I like watching idiots, such as myself, being blown into the water. It's especially funny when you're well liquored up. Sad for the New Zealander, though. The last thing anyone wants is to die on vacation doing something so stupid. | |||
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My brother has been going down to Sint Maarten twice a year for years yet has NEVER felt compelled to do that. A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it. | |||
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Unhyphenated American |
Shouldn't the government close the beach to the public?  __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
 "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers  | |||
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Very sad. All you Darwin types... I hope nothing bad ever happens to a member of your family on vacation. ---------------------------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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The Joy Maker |
Most folks don't stand behind behind a Pratt & Whitney when it spools up for takeoff on their vacation. 
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Yep. You play the stupid games, and you win the stupid f'in prizes. PTZtv used to have a webcam at the Sunset Beach Bar, and you could watch these stupid people 24/7. The REALLY stupid people did this back when KLM's 747s took off - it blew people back into the water, along with hats, shirts, coolers, etc. STUPID! They must also all be illiterate - can't read the prominent warning signs. You MATTER. Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared. Then you ENERGY. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
She was 57 years old. What does Darwin have to do with it? Christ, that term is so old and tired. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Endowment) Family, Guns, Country "My guns are always loaded." ~R.G. Justified What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure. | |||
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| The Joy Maker |
For all intensive purposes, your point is mute, and it's going to be a tough road to hoe getting people to stop.
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Perhaps an expresso will help. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Me too - I've had drinks at bar, it's quite fun to get a tan as the big buses land and depart. St Martin is always a good time.  I'm Rick James. | |||
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A Grateful American |
Well, to be Frank, so was Darwin. I always wanted to be Frank. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ I could explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. | |||
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savage | |||
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| Big Stack |
I did it. I was down on the beach, not up against the fence. If you ever want to know what it's like to be sand blasted, try it. The landings are more fun. This was bound to happen. I wonder if they'll change access to that part of the beach/road because of this. It would be difficult, because that's actually an important stretch of road for the island. | |||
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Certified Plane Pusher |
I wonder if they would put up a lighting system controlled by the controllers to stop drivers on the road. Essentially control the stop lights. Plane enters the runway, turn the lights red. Plane on short final, turn the lights red. Or at least something like that. We have control of the PPRP/Taxiway Z lights at BFI. It makes it abundantly clear when there is an aircraft departing that pavement to any vehicles on the perimeter road. Situation awareness is defined as a continuous extraction of environmental information, integration of this information with previous knowledge to for a coherent mental picture in directing further perception and anticipating future events. Simply put, situational awareness mean knowing what is going on around you. | |||
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