http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/whoa/ falling indelibly into the past Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:41:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/whoa/#comment-377 Jake Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:57:29 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=185#comment-377 <p>I had the same experience last week. It was pretty amazing before 9/11, but it’s really astonishing now. I couldn’t believe how close we got to the ESB. Bonus points for doing it at sunset. </p> I had the same experience last week. It was pretty amazing before 9/11, but it’s really astonishing now. I couldn’t believe how close we got to the ESB. Bonus points for doing it at sunset.

]]> http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/whoa/#comment-376 matt Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:29:27 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=185#comment-376 <p>For many weeks after Sept. 11, all Manhattan airspace was closed off, and I at least become pretty accustomed to the absence of flyovers.  But I’ll never forget the day, about six weeks after, that they reopened the airspace, and a passenger jet came swooping over us on Fifth Avenue.  Many of us were paralyzed with our necks craned upwards, wondering just where that plane was headed.  Eerie. </p> For many weeks after Sept. 11, all Manhattan airspace was closed off, and I at least become pretty accustomed to the absence of flyovers.  But I’ll never forget the day, about six weeks after, that they reopened the airspace, and a passenger jet came swooping over us on Fifth Avenue.  Many of us were paralyzed with our necks craned upwards, wondering just where that plane was headed.  Eerie.

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