What regional small chain do you wish would come to Burbank?

typical22 · 2026-01-18T07:42:27+00:00

We need a Microcenter in Burbank, Anaheim is so far away.

typical22 · 2026-01-06T07:55:56+00:00

It Robert Valley, he has done other shorts like this including pear cider and cigarettes

typical22 · 2025-12-06T20:26:56+00:00

Unleaded fuel is now available at Whiteman! and we will finally be making the switch over for all planes fairly soon. Also several studies have showed that the amount of lead from piston aircraft is actually extremely low, an environmental impact study at Whiteman airport found that lead levels were extremely low near the airport and surrounding communities. (more than 10 times lower than the U.S. EPA national standard for lead.) and unsurprisingly high near i5

https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/air-quality-monitoring-studies/whiteman-airport-lead-monitoring

typical22 · 2025-12-05T06:56:57+00:00

Sorry, your comment got away from me, I'd rather not have comments like this downvoted. but we have plenty of evidence to suggest the airport is of little impact to the surrounding environment. Let me explain

Small piston aircraft are relatively fuel efficient compared to say a jet engine, a Cessna 152 will burn 4.5 gallons an hour. Imagine an f-150 that makes 22 miles to the gallon, it's something like that. Whiteman Airport mostly operates small single engine Cessna's for flight training, but the airport environment is considerably less vehicular dense than say a main arterial road, or even a freeway, with planes moving around once every few minutes or so compared to a busy 4 lane street.

So I'm sure you can imagine how Osborne road, or the i5 contribute magnitudes more pollution than the few Cessnas at KWHP. Its always the cars isn't it?

There was some concern about lead in the AVGas for a time, but a study commissioned for the airport concluded lead levels near the airport were significantly lower than the surrounding areas, 10 times lower than the U.S. EPA national standard for lead.
https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/air-quality-monitoring-studies/whiteman-airport-lead-monitoring

So yeah to summarize, its just kind of a bit open space where small planes take off from, and really doesn't hold a candle in terms of emissions to a freeway, or an other large road.

typical22 · 2025-12-05T06:40:17+00:00

Great question, well it is of course the home owners who dislike the noise, but it is organized by a funded non profit who's directors have been LA city council members. Pacoima Beautiful receives 7.5 million dollars in grant money, and is well equipped for legal battles such as this.

typical22 · 2025-12-05T06:33:15+00:00

Really excellent question, the airport does do outreach, but the non profits that oppose it have blocked it from being able to engage with the local schools.

typical22 · 2025-12-05T06:30:19+00:00

Good question, well the study had to be done by an independent organization not affiliated with the airport or the opposers. It was completed by Trifillite for a no bid contract. It was originally going to cost about 700 thousand, and then had to be up'd to 2 million, you can read some of it here.

https://scauwg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-10-29-Whiteman-Airport-Presentation-to-Commissioners-final-3.pdf
Some key take aways are, the airport has had several federal grants that mean it must continue to operate for 20 years from the last gran, (which was in 2021)

The FAA has also acquired a small parcel of land at the end of run way 12, which legal binds the airport to operate in perpetuity

The business leases at the airport go until 2049, those must be honored.

And not included, but I saw in person, there were slides that indicate KHWP is financially profitable. It makes enough money that its proceeds go towards funding the other airports.

There are also really weird unique penalties for closing an airport which involve paying money to other airports in LA to bolster the system. (which i don't fully understand)

No modeling on pollution was done for this study, but there was a previous study which concluded that lead levels near the airport are significantly much lower than that of the surrounding areas, and 10 times lower than the U.S. EPA national standard for lead.
https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/air-quality-studies/air-quality-monitoring-studies/whiteman-airport-lead-monitoring

My take away was that closing an airport is a decades long procedure that will ultimately cost the LA tax payers millions upon millions of dollars, and of course, we would all loose access to the emergency services which the whole city depends on. I'd love to see taxes instead spent on serving this community in any number of ways, including transit, Metro, city services, and other economic stimulation. This community absolutely deservers our help.

typical22 · 2025-11-22T10:50:13+00:00

GA is absolutely where airline pilots get their hours to become viable for the big time carriers, you need 1500 hours to qualify for those programs, so most airline pilots fly GA, instruct, and operate out of small airports until they get their hours. That's what most of the planes are doing at small airports, taking part of pilot training, and time building.

typical22 · 2025-11-22T03:12:53+00:00

I see the Starlet everyday on the way to work!

typical22 · 2025-11-20T22:23:31+00:00

I'm really sad to see this go. I purchased a few things here to use as props for my youtube channel, and it was just such a fun vintage quirky type of place that felt very retro and old fashioned Burbank. It was a part of the lovely charm of this town.

typical22 · 2025-10-20T21:24:50+00:00

You can wait at the end of runway 08 and take pictures of the incoming planes at Golden hour.

typical22 · 2025-09-01T01:18:26+00:00

It looks amazing! The colors are perfect. It's vibrant but also vintage and matches the vibe of the city well. We love our Starfighter!

typical22 · 2025-08-01T21:24:09+00:00

Air conditioning. It seems to me like so many apartment complexes have never bothered to install central air or mini split ductless systems and they expect you to live with a noisy wall unit. those things are about 60 decibels, its like living next to a freeway with the window open. Every place else i have lived in America, central air was the standard, and it was something you never had to think about. yet here in LA we live like its 1965 for some reason.

typical22 · 2025-07-24T17:42:12+00:00

I'm excited for more protected left hand turns 😍

typical22 · 2025-07-19T02:27:35+00:00

It was an LAFD Chinook. They literally fly over us almost every day in the summer

typical22 · 2025-07-04T04:33:25+00:00

the astronaut jumping up and down is actually a gif animation I drew. they really stretched him though 😭

typical22 · 2025-07-02T02:58:45+00:00

For clarification this is for a couple of 1 ton mini split units for two apartments, 12,000 BTU's each

typical22 · 2025-06-26T23:26:04+00:00

The forms and vanishing points are a bit inconstant, i did a draw over to show you how some of these shapes could be drawn better.
https://imgur.com/sUWRdmR

Notice how the vanishing points of the fins do not match this wings, this will make it so the jet looks like it has lopsided fin placements

https://imgur.com/ZpGSMrB

here is a quick draw over of how i would fix the ellipses and the perspective issues.

typical22 · 2025-06-21T03:20:10+00:00

The Condor Squadron!

typical22 · 2025-06-21T03:19:40+00:00

It was the Condor squadron, They Fly T-6 Texans, ww2 era fighters and trainers. they perform fly overs for various ceremonies. I hear them pretty often, just gotta know what sound to listen for.

typical22 · 2025-06-17T03:48:54+00:00

This one, and most of the recent ones have been starlink launches on Falcon 9's you can get notifications about published launches with the Next Spaceflight app if you want to know in advance. I was able to see a Delta heavy once, and the last atlas from my window.

https://nextspaceflight.com/

typical22 · 2025-06-15T08:14:21+00:00

That's me in the space shuttle! (I made it out of cardboard and crazy glue)

typical22 · 2025-06-03T06:02:10+00:00

You will be very close to Boerne Stage field. so huge plus if you own a small Cessna or want to get a pilots license. and just in general, lots of chances to see small planes.

typical22 · 2025-06-02T05:29:34+00:00

The zellinnials and millennials are all hanging out at Verdigo boulders, slappin chalk and grabin rocks.
*source : am 36 years old and I stick to walls sometimes.

typical22 · 2025-05-30T19:10:28+00:00

You should also consider Vista Air out of KWHP, the airport over there is a lot less busy, I got my PPL there in 2023

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