Machinery

A remaster of an older one. Those MD-11 freighters were about the only things that came into Cologne/Bonn that really made noise. Having lived right under the glidescope into runway 14L, I know that first hand. Anything else you sometimes didn't even notice, at least as long as you had the windows closed. These things here however sometimes legitimately shook the whole house, and sometimes they came a dozen in a row, like every 3 minutes. Especially late in the evening when people just were about to go sleeping. Even the 747s didn't cause so much vibration.

 

The MD-11 has now been grounded since that crash in Kentucky, and frankly, if it was up to me, I won't mind if it stays this way. Something else that is no more is runway 14L, that has been renumbered to 13L, to account for the moving magnetic poles of the Earth - which is complete humbug of course. I still remember being taught that by "authoritative sources" - e.g. people who are right by virtue of sharing an opinion with the government.

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