Ground control to Major Tom

An otherwise dreary-looking day was brightened by two events:
1) Seeing a decent movie ("Unleashed" with Jet Li)
and
2) The odd, dramatic sight of several old bombers rumbling through the skies overhead. They were part of an airshow held over the weekend, and they are most likely returning home.

The local air traffic at this time of day is usually heavy, with jets pouring out of the airport once every 4 or 5 minutes. Today, though, the appearance of the bombers seems to have shut down air traffic as they flew out of town. They stayed relatively low to the ground (compared to the passenger jets), causing the air to vibrate with a heavy bass sound from their 4 prop engines. They flew out individually, with some of their overhead passes triggering car alarms. It was a pretty astounding sight.

Today's paper noted that there were both B-17s and B-25s at the airshow. I saw both of these pieces of history sail past. The B-17 was a beautiful site with its 4 prop engines, and the twin tail rudder of the B-25 was a dead giveaway as to its identity. Just a spectacular sight; big, thundering, airborne toys for boys.