Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Low flying jet fighter this morning
Anyone see that low flying jet fighter that flew over Wood Green this morning. I didn't see it but heard it and thought it was coming down. Noisy isn't the word.
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Permalink Reply by Rob on
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Yes I definitely heard it (!) and looked it up on flight radar- its flight path came from RAF Mildenhall but it had no ID so presumably a US Air Force jet.
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"Overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here" ... and now over-flown (as Tommy Trinder might have added, were he still alive).
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Permalink Reply by Dan77 on
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There's a theory it might be a dry-run for this, at Spurs
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2021/10/10/us-military-jets-fl...
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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So, assuming this is correct, the organisers of this event feel it is in someway fun to have four multi-million dollar weapons of war fly over London and the US airforce agree. This really is from the land of “you couldn’t make it up”
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Well if you are into aviation like me then yes it will be a bit of fun. Could be very loud but at least it won't last longer than a few seconds.
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Perhaps have the crowd fire guns into the air too?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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We’ve been doing it here in Blighty since 1913 apparently. I’ve always seen them as a bit of honorific ceremony. I suppose attitudes to our machines of war might vary depending on the time we’re living in. No doubt people living in 1940s Britian would have felt very warmly about a flypast of Spitfires. Generally, I think most people would still see a flypast as a bit of fun, despite, or perhaps even in part because of, the terrifying potential of the machines.
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What the hell is it about Yanks that makes them have to militarise their so-called sport even when guests in another country and in another football code's facility? And what the hell is it about that country and its so-called sporting clubs that makes it difficult for them to shout NO! and mean it?
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The Hotspurs stadium is proving to be a highly disruptive development for the residents of (North) Tottenham.
The place is regularly invaded by hordes of people from elsewhere, shutting the roads and creating havoc with traffic keeping locals off their own streets and public transport. Thorough fares are blocked for hours before and after each event - see the mayhem that continued into the wee hours of the morning after the boxing a few weekends ago! As there is no night tube, buses had groups of unreasonanble, often drunk, fans boarding and not paying thus delaying other passengers and services in general. Then there is a monoculture of fast food places that thrive only off the stadium goers who also pee and 'let them selves go' afterwards.
This stadium should NEVER have been built in a city-centre, residential area, but on the empty plots next to the North Circular at Ikea where they are now building homes on what was a polluted, industrial barren site just ripe for development.
I know it may sound nimbyish and that city centres need "animation". But it is TOO MUCH. Is this the way to run a place? To plan liveable cities where people want to live?
I digress I know. But I needed to rant about this since the politicans were so indigent* in their own vision for the place, and so lacking in inspiration and clear ideas of what development really is, that they ceded to the Spurs cynical blackmail to leave for Stratford where there is precisely a place (a stadium, a multinode transport network and a physical layout, puposely built and so much better suited for this type of thing!
*Our local MP is so bad he allowed Labour to go through with its liberalisation of the betting laws then only started to gesticulate-activate after the ill effects started to have an their impact on areas like ours.
He intervened to beg Spurs to stay in Tottenham instead of calling their bluff.
He deliberately sat on the fence by not publicly backing a community centred plan to maintain the existing market and heritage buildings at the Wards Corner. This wasted many many years for Seven Sisters and his very own contstituents.
The opportunity costs are enormous. I do not believe any of it is malice just political ineptitude in which Haringey in general seems to specialise.
Another rant over. Sigh!
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