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Wow that loud rumble brings back memories of jets over downtown.
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Wow, it is loud!

Can imagine when they had a bus or three an hour what it would be like!

They used to be quite loud, I lived near by and it was quite noisy in the mornings.

I am down at Jasper and 112th and just heard it power up.
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Wow, I'm 100 Ave and 108 St and it shook my windows a little there. I'm glad that I was able to watch the whole thing from here. Truly marks the end of an era.
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2013, 9:13 PM
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Yup, that was loud. For a one-off thing it's sort of neat, but to have that happening all the time is just stupid.

I can't believe Edmontonians put up with it for so long, convenient or not.
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Flying that thing to Villeneuve is ridiculous, the city couldn't accommodate 100x100 foot box out of how many acres?
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The 732's aren't that bad when you consider even louder Fokker-28's and back in the day Lear 24/25's were regular aircraft at the airport and packed a lot more noise...
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Yup, that was loud. For a one-off thing it's sort of neat, but to have that happening all the time is just stupid.

I can't believe Edmontonians put up with it for so long, convenient or not.
I lived in Dovercourt for my early life and you got used to it. In St Albert it was always louder as they flew over. Now I get the flights to YK flying over . Still noisey but they are much higher.
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Flying that thing to Villeneuve is ridiculous, the city couldn't accommodate 100x100 foot box out of how many acres?
I bet it was fun for the pilot though

Kind-of like the time I bought a rusty old Volvo with no brakes and drove it 60k's home.

Not just ridiculous... stupid. And fun.
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I think the word I'm looking for is vindictive. There is no reason this plane couldn't have remained where it was over than some particularly harsh victor's justice.
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The 732's aren't that bad when you consider even louder Fokker-28's and back in the day Lear 24/25's were regular aircraft at the airport and packed a lot more noise...
Time Air used F28s for a time I believe. Truthfully though I do not miss the landings at CCA. the take offs were fun. My first flight into the arctic was from CCA. and Old NWT Electra.
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Wow.. look how fast it took to get from Blatchford to Villeneuve!

We should keep Blatchford open and use it to shuttle people to Villeneuve
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Global chopper video:
http://globalnews.ca/video/999777/raw-vi...r&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=community

Looks like it had one failed landing attempt so had to do it again.
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So now that YXD is in mothballs, I look forward to taller buildings kissing the sky. Now let's get that neighborhood redeveloped.
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* sighs *

Gonna keep hearing that until they actually tear up the runways methinks.
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Whatever happened to that Allard fellow? He's been lying low for the past couple of years since Envision Edmonton's failure.
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