nice. :D

No 737s or CRJs here...just the occasional puddle jumper and polyester covered aerobatic airplane fills my day. By night, I'm Batman! :tiphat:

Saab 340B's for me. I'd gladly trade a day in the 717 for a few laps around the pattern in the old Swedish tank again. I don't think I'll ever (again) be the pilot I was back then. Everyone has to start somewhere for sure.

I probably would to in the ole "Vibrating B**ch" or "Swith B**ch" as we called the 120 depending on your Flt crew from the MD-83.

hope Mike wasn't flying that plane that overshot midway yesterday. :icon17:

The view outside my office everyone morning:

Operations Center at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. This picture was taken back in 2009
http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1303970340

And I have had a rough weekend. I cant remember how many hours I have worked......

I am sure everyone knows why

http://www.the370z.com/attachments/n...g-img_3265.jpg

man, I just saw some video on the weather channel from inside the terminal, that was something else!

yah, was going to say, wasn't that the airport that got... (next pict) yes it was. :(

Yeah. That was some crazy stuff right there.

I can only imagine how much worse it could've been if American Airlines didn't shrink their operations last year. That airport is a ghost town compared to what it used to be.

Sure would have been, I have flown a few charters their the past year and is like wow still to this day.

That's a great picture of two great looking aircraft! :tup:

My heart goes out to you guys. I hope the rebuilding process is a quick one. Mid-Western folks can bounce back from anything.

The view as you were just waking up??? :bowrofl:

HEY NOW!!! I am not FAA! :rolleyes:

I work 0000-0830.

I think it is going to be a fairly slow recovery process. From what I hear it is going to take a while to repair the Terminal since all the glass has to be custom made. I have not heard any plans for the C-concourse. The last thing I heard was it was deemed structurally unsound and no personnel other than airport authority & construction crews were allowed inside.

In the end I think we actually really lucked out. The airport took a pretty good hit but we got her back up and running quite smoothly. It was really amazing that we had no serious injuries. The extra unutilized space came in handy allowing us to quickly relocate the airlines to the B & D gates. The ATCT was not damaged in any way. A few Navaids were damaged and FAA tech ops is making repairs. We had a lot of damaged to the airfield to our lights & signs following the track of the tornado. Over 150 fixtures (lights & signs) were either damaged or missing). It made the nightly inspection an absolute bear.

How do you like the vortex generators in front of the "aerodynamic" windows……(some of my work) :tup: