Nuriel wrote, and Steve Dulson responded: >i think that the false alarm moto refers to the 6 plains she saw. >the plains >were probably called on a mission a drill maybe an atack >that turned out to be >a false alarm. makes sense, eh?
If you've ever driven across "the burning desert" from LA to say Albuquerque you can see six, or a dozen, commercial jetliners at any one time flying from LA to the east coast, leaving vapor trails." Steve: could be, and I would have thought this was the only possibility, if I hadn't taken up some years ago with a guy who lives for all things connected to naval aviation. ;-) As it is, I know that the U.S. Navy's precision flying squad, the Blue Angels, which performs in air shows around the country, completes its early training in late fall of each year at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, FL. But then, around January, the Blue Angels pack up to begin even more serious training in--you got it--the desert, in and around Southern California. There are six Blue Angel planes in the squad. Their "vapor trails," given the intricacy and symmetry of their exercises, are quite memorable. Kinda gives new meaning to Joni's musings at the end of "Woodstock" about the planes of war turning into butterflies, doesn't it? Even though these are F/A 18s, I think, not bombers. Mary. P.S. Another possibility is that Joni saw training by a similar squad that the Air Force mantains--the Thunderbirds?
