Ty! Very cool

Not sure what they have in Halifax, but Worcester is known for its great diners. There’s like 10 I could recommend in the area

[deleted]

No it's an FAA requirement that all planes from military(non combat) to your grandfather's prop plane to broadcast/transmit at a minimum their location(geo coordinates, altitude and speed), As well as your plane's tail ID number and planned route (but that's not always public). This is to avoid mid air collisions, and allow flight towers /FAA to direct air traffic. This is all done through a device in the plane, it can be turned off and on.

There are websites that collect all this data and that allow you to see all this data from your web browser. Just Google "air traffic radar map", and you'll see tons of options. ( I prefer flightradar24.com )

When the US government or military conduct operations they want kept out of the public eye, they have their planes turn off this, thus no longer "squawking" and invisible to just about everyone except themselves.

Me and the my coworker were up in Boylston and could see em. Cool stuff

What does that mean? Do you have a radar dish

Makes sense that Holden can afford two fighter jets too.

I was golfing at green hill, they flew over us with very little sound compared to the f35s i saw a month ago in chicopee.. funny to hear everyone mention how loud it was. I must have been up wind or something.

Like, acab all day but it's hard to say that there is misconduct here. Firefighters did their job, and it's not like it was something like weed that they found, which would turn this into a different conversation.

Obviously not a decent replacement, but one thing I find funny is that if you buy a ticket (far in advance) from Springfield to Boston on the Amtrak lakeshore limited, you can get from Worcester to Boston cheaper and faster than on the commuter rail (I believe it was $9 last time I checked)

We definitely need a frequent Springfield - Boston rail link

It's a pretty routine part of pilot training. Pretty sure the Navy requires any carrier pilot who's been on land for more than a month to practice touch-and-go landings before they can land back on a carrier.

So it was 15:19 they were flying really low went over alexandria Indiana here scared the shot out of me what's going on ?????

😆

Good to know!

I would not disagree 😀

>Karen1968a

username seems appropriate

I think they need one that extends from Boston to Albany, quite frankly. Or at least springfield.

There used to be a rail line that ran between Fitchburg and Worcester, creatively called the Fitchburg & Worcester Railroad. Currently, two sections have been converted into rail trails: the section between Fitchburg and downtown Leominster is the Twin Cities Rail Trail, the the section between Sterling center and Sterling Junction (right near the Sterling/ West Boylston line on Route 12) is the Mass Central Rail Trail. The section between Pratts Junction and Sterling Center is partially intact, but also partially built over, particularly around I-190. There are tracks in place between Leominster center and Pratts Junction, as well as between Sterling Junction and downtown Worcester. Both are currently owned by CSX. Rebuilding that rail is possible because of how the rails-to-trails laws work, but would be very expensive (see the South Coast Rail project, which is currently reactivating a long-defunct rail right-of-way). Without a greater need, I think a rail route between Fitchburg and Worcester will be a tough sell.

[removed]

I would have never guessed that Grover Norquist would be active in this subreddit.

Dang they just shook the hell out of the building I was working in. Wondered what that was. Neat to know!

I'd be happy with a bus line. I made the trip from the Burg to Worcester for a couple of years, and would have loved that to be via bus.

The idea of city building though is to create infrastructure first and for demand to follow it. At least in better countries.

American way is to play constant catch up with problems due to lack of foresight.

A tax is a tax.

Definitely a bus line between the Leominster and Union Station commuter rail stations.