Ballet in the Sky

boykinlp · Oct 10, 2023

If there was ever a ballet in the sky, this is it! Can you imagine going to the beach one day and witnessing this in person?
Larry

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lihpster · Oct 10, 2023

Nimble little minx, ain't she?

Breakaway500 · Oct 10, 2023

My favorite fighter.

fordson · Oct 10, 2023

Makes ya’ rethink the laws of aerodynamics and physics……..
Thanks for sharing……

s&wchad · Oct 10, 2023

Amazing machine and pilot.
I sure am glad they're on our side!

Rudi · Oct 10, 2023

Hot Dogs at their best!

LVSteve · Oct 10, 2023

Cloudbase looks a bit low for the full "falling leaf" display as I call it. Seen it t Nellis a couple of times, and it is pretty bizarre.

swsig · Oct 10, 2023

Another example of our government not getting its money's worth. That plane has its afterburners on, and yet it's going real slow. Hmmph!

s&wchad · Oct 10, 2023

swsig said:
Another example of our government not getting its money's worth.

Looks like a 334 million dollar aircraft burning up $70,000 per hour to me!

MDF4 · Oct 10, 2023

I would give up my left side component to fly the f-22..

Aggie1906 · Oct 10, 2023

Sitting outside on a Wednesday a couple weeks ago. Huge noise in the sky, and an F16 came by flaring up at about 500 ft. Seemed less. Not an AF guy, but coulda been on burner. Looked it up, and the Ohio ANG was doing interception maneuvers by Detroit and Flint. That is not far away, so guess that was it. Sure was loud and low. Reminds me of the '60s when sonic booms were a common thing.

lihpster · Oct 10, 2023

We were camping at a lake on one of my dad's hunting trips. The lake had a hill on one side, about 250-300 ft. high. It steeply sloped down to the water. The Oregon ANG were flying training flights apparently. At least 3 times that week they did the same thing. They came over the hill at about 100 ft. over the trees, which put them about 450-500 over the lake. So, you're sitting there, watching the chipmunks when suddenly someone upsets the God of Thunder. 2 F-15s make alot of noise, and when it's so sudden, it's pretty overwhelming. When you know they are on your side, like I did, it's awesome. I can't imagine what it would feel like to our enemies.

Rustyt1953 · Oct 10, 2023

We've come a long way since wing warping.

snowman · Oct 10, 2023

Aggie1906 said:
Sitting outside on a Wednesday a couple weeks ago. Huge noise in the sky, and an F16 came by flaring up at about 500 ft. Seemed less. Not an AF guy, but coulda been on burner. Looked it up, and the Ohio ANG was doing interception maneuvers by Detroit and Flint. That is not far away, so guess that was it. Sure was loud and low. Reminds me of the '60s when sonic booms were a common thing.

Oh, yeah! That's the 180th Fighter Wing of the ANG based at Swanton just west of Toledo. They come down here for training maneuvers 2-3 times a year for several weeks at a time. I stepped out on my front porch one time during their practice just in time to see one of them fly out of a low cloud in my direction.

I've always enjoyed watching the F16 -saw the Thunderbirds one time in Miwaukee and was really impressed with their capabilities. But that was over 30 years ago and I know that the new machines are more advanced. They're still fun to watch though.

Regards,
Andy

yaktamer · Oct 11, 2023

"Ballet in the Sky." Makes me think of the aerobatic box near my house. Though it's not used often, every now and then I can watch pilots practicing from my driveway. A little too far to see the planes, just the smoke.

kozmic · Oct 11, 2023

I remember sitting out on Lake Ontario in my boat when the Blue Angels were in town for an air show. I was dive bombed by 2 of them. They passed me at about 200 feet above the water. They threw up a 100' rooster. And just like that, they were gone and flying over the city and got back into formation with the others. Quite the audio/visual show.

Abbynormal · Oct 11, 2023

Was drifting in a boat on Lamb Lake Indiana 5 miles west of Camp Atterbury firing range. 2 warthogs flew over. 3 minutes later we started hearing what sounded like a warning horn. We heard the sound on and off for about 10 minutes and then the warthogs came back flying KOE and wing wagged us as they buzzed us.

Dave_n · Oct 12, 2023

Back in my grad school days near Brighton in Sussex, Brighton had two piers into the Channel. When the RAF was practicing for BoB Day, they would use two Hawker Hunters passing each other between the piers. However, one would be upside down less than 40 feet above the water and the other mirrorng him right side up. These were from 111 Squadron who pioneered 12 man operations at airshows using jet-black Hunters. Dave_n

Hair Trigger · Oct 12, 2023

boykinlp said:
If there was ever a ballet in the sky, this is it! Can you imagine going to the beach one day and witnessing this in person?
Larry

F-22 Raptor in Stunning Display speed & agility Pacific Airshow Huntington beach - YouTube

Screw the F-35. They should have built another 200 of these.

lihpster · Oct 12, 2023

Hair Trigger said:
Screw the F-35. They should have built another 200 of these.

Build another 200 Raptors? Yes, please. But we need the F-35s. The Raptor is a wonderful air superiority fighter. Not so much a bomb truck. The F-35 was at least designed with that as part of it's mission. And if you load a Raptor up with bombs, it is no longer stealthy and agile and I'm not sure if it would still "supercruise".

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