Re: Playing TWISTER at Coyote

From: Richard O. Rhodes (rorhodes@netcom.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu Jul 01 1999 - 06:09:52 PDT


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From: "Richard O. Rhodes" <rorhodes@netcom.com-DeleteThis>
Subject: Re: Playing TWISTER at Coyote
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A friend of mine flies 747's, and claims that vortex generated by each
wing can knock down wind surfers. It is a little like bowling, only a
lot more fun.

           Dick Rhodes

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, George Haye wrote:

> One of the things Ken Poulton added to the list of impacts of the SFO
> Airport exansion was:
>
> > Occasional violent turbulence (small 40+ knot "twisters") at water
> >level.
>
> I have witnessed these several times at Coyote and not everyone even
> believes me when I tell them. Basically, the twister just leaves the airport
> area and works it's way downwind -- a swirl of blasting winds, probably
> 40-50 mph, maybe more. I've been completely wasted by these things a couple
> of times. The sail just rips out of your hands and you get thrashed. And,
> you can't always be looking over your shoulder to see if a twister is coming
> -- that's no way to windsurf!
> Has anyone else had experience with these at Coyote? And, Ken and whoever
> else, what exactly causes them do you think? Is it planes firing the engines
> on full to speed up for take off, or what? Is it somehow related to
> landings? (If that's the case, the runway expansion could in turn extend the
> "tornado alert zone" to include the channel out from Seal Point.)
>
> -George
>
>
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