A Baloney Sandwich and a Story

I read a lie recently, I don't know what the truth is; but, I was lied to, we all were. Lets start with the story.

NBC News - Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX. The air traffic control at LAX in Los Angeles went down and planes were forced to delay landings and take offs. It was blamed on a U2 jet. That is what the article says. The first thing in the article that caught my attention was the claim that Edwards Air Force Base is "30 miles" from the center of Los Angeles as that is wrong. Nope, Edwards is more like 80 miles away. Palmdale comes before Edwards and it is about 60. In case you are wondering, Palmdale is in the County of Los Angeles. For the moment, lets just say the writer was stupid and cannot count.

Now, lets talk about the plane, it is blamed on a U2. The plane is used by NASA, not the military or intelligence. It is a very old plane, impressive in it's day; but, quite a few generations old. It has no use in intelligence work anymore and has not for awhile. The original articles all tried to imply that it was doing spy work and had super sophisticated jamming stuff; but, that is nonsense. You see, super secret planes land at Edwards all the time. Even the space shuttle used to land there and you know what, they never shut down LAX. Anyone in Air Traffic would know this story was baloney and not even properly fried; but, when you need a story, you make up a story.

Some of my readers may think I am just guessing; but, they confirmed it. The FAA has now announced that the U2 messed up it's tracking software because of it's flight pattern. Huh? Wait, the plane was not on a secret mission and NASA filed a flight plan, same as it does everyday, same as Edwards does, everyday. I lived in that desert for half my life, I know that desert. I have visited Edwards and dated a woman who work at the Skunk Works in Palmdale. She was a lovely and sweet woman and I am sorry that we just saw things differently.

I could always tell when a secret flight was going up. It wasn't that hard. You see, the old timers that had worked there on the flights knew which days the flights were and would go out and park to watch them and plant a flag behind them. A great big American flag, the guys that worked on the super secret stuff and Apollo were proud of what they created even after they retired. I am not going to talk any more about security measures or lack there of. Suffice it to say that people know when special flights are going up or coming down most of the time.

Go back to the first paragraphs. LAX never gets shut down and hasn't gotten either further away or closer to either Edwards or Skunk Works, it is the same distance. LAX knows how to deal with traffic to Skunk Works and Edwards. This leaves us with two choices, even Edwards and LAX did not know in advance about this flight or the flight was of a higher clearance than the Space Shuttle, U2s, the original Stealths and every other secret plane with unusual flight patterns that this country has ever created. Read up on Skunk Works and Edwards.

Look, planes at Edwards have exceeded Mach 5 and may have done Mach 10. It you don't know what that means, it means that planes from Edwards have gone 10 times the speed of sound. The space shuttle which goes higher than any plane and used to land at Edwards didn't shut down LAX and planes going faster than anything else in history did not shut down LAX. That means that the story we have been told is a lie.

I don't know what flew into Edwards on that date; but, it wasn't a U2 that caused all the planes to be kept from flying. Maybe they didn't want people to see something. Heck, maybe it was Malaysia Flight 370, maybe it was the famous plane Aurora. I don't know; but, it wasn't some old U2 working for NASA.