The cargo stuff is jumping. I am stuck at the south end of the runways, western window facing the flight path, as well as being right close enough to where the big (747, A380) spool up in the middle of the night. A racket all day long that having triple pane glass would attenuate, were it not bass loaded that it comes through the walls.
This morning I watched UPS 747s lifting off for places far off. One after the other at close to three minute intervals streaming off 33R/15L. Watching them coming in is a hoot, as they seem to barely skim the tree tops or look to be flying through the birch boughs. clay I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. > On Apr 22, 2020, at 3:07 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I enjoy watching all of the cargo flights going in and out of ANC on > FlightAware. It’s amazing how much cargo traffic there is back and forth to > Asia. That place must be hopping in the overnight hours. > > A woman who I used to work with had a son who was a FedEx pilot. He said that > when he bid on schedules, which they had to do every month, he had enough > seniority to get the MEM-ANC flights, which gave him enough hours in just a > few weeks to meet his monthly requirements in short order. > > -D > >> On Apr 21, 2020, at 8:49 PM, Clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> There is still all the cargo airlines. UPS/Amazon/FedEx, as well as >> international carriers with lots of space to move products instead of >> people. Article in todays local news was about the steady increase in cargo >> flights and massive reduction in people planes. There is constant (50-90 >> plane) cargo volume (all the cheep chinee contaminated test kits and PPE) vs >> around six passenger flights landing in the past 24 hours. Four Alaska air >> flights instead of the normal few dozens. Delta had a single flight, as did >> United. >> >> Tennessee and other cargo hubs must be seeing lots of volume and getting >> inexpensive JetA that is not going into tourist flights. >> >> clay >> >> I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. >> >> >> >>> On Apr 21, 2020, at 2:55 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> True, and think of the huge volumes of jet fuel that aren’t being consumed, >>> either. Lots of idle time at the refinery… >>> >>> -D >>> >>>> On Apr 21, 2020, at 1:16 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I probably wrote this before, but it bears repeating. Sooner or later the >>>> refineries will run out of storage for gasoline. When that happens, they >>>> will cease production. The refining process can only be skewed a few >>>> percent in favor of diesel or gasoline. Depending on the consumption of >>>> fuels adjacent to diesel on the cracking spectrum, the availability of >>>> diesel fuel could potentially be interrupted. Which, if you receive >>>> anything by truck, will be a bit of a glitch in your supply chain. >>>> >>>> Rick >> >> >> clay >> >> I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > clay I have no pronouns please do not refer to me. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
