ASH PLUME HEADING OUR WAY?????

[Shultzie]

Just heard about Mt. Redoubt in Alaska and could be heading down our way soon here at our flying site here at the Narrows...
Hummm?
Looks like Mike, Steve, Pete, Pete, Rod, Randy, Paul, n' the NW gang of flyers are going to need to go to a finer mess intake screen on their stunt engines?

[Jim Pollock]

Well Don,

I don't think that ash will get to Seattle....  I was in Anchorage when Readout blew it's top in 66.  I used to like going up to the top of the Westward and just looking at the ash and steam wandering skyward.  The only thing I didn't like too much was the 5.8 Earthquake that looked like an ocean of ground waves coming down Elmendorf's runway!  It woke me up by banging my head against the wall while I was sleeping on my good old AF bunk.  Fortunately, no damage - we still had holes in the ground on 4th St. where buildings had been before the April 64 Quake.

Jim Pollock   

[catdaddy]

1989-1990 This one lasted for 6 months! I believe it had signifigant effects on air travel. It knocked all 4 engines out of an airliner that flew through it's ash cloud.

[Shultzie]

That brings up memories of my experience with the Mt. St.Helens blast from the summer of 1980.
I was painting my old home in Auburn at the time...I ran inside grabbed the old Minolta and took this shot from the backyard.
The other two shots were taken much later after the road to the mountain was reopened.
When Carol and I heard about the name of the Parker family that owned this car...I wondered if our fellow gruntster' Bob Parker was related....but according to his father, they didn't know the family.

[Shultzie]

Thanks Steve...for correcting my BRAIN FART ON THE PHOTO!!!

[Peter Ferguson]

Lots of airplanes have had trouble with ash. Recently some politicians badmouthed the need for volcano monitoring but its a real threat. Just ask those that were on those flights.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_09/volcanic_story.html