What flew over my house today...

[outta_ammo]

...and yesterday, and will again tomorrow. This pair was followed by a B-17 being "attacked" by an Me-109 with a P-47 coming to the rescue. Then about 40 minutes of the Thunderbirds. The advantages of being 2 miles from the airport during the airshow.

 

[lihpster]

It is a great show. Watched it from a friends house on year. About the same distance away. It's interesting to see how much bigger planes have gotten.

 

[Telecaster]

Sweet! [+ 4 more characters to meet the minimum]

 

[Absalom]

...The advantages of being 2 miles from the airport during the airshow.

Same here.

The show is suspiciously often on one of the hottest weekends of the year. Must be some karma. When it was still at Hillsboro (I've been attending since the late 80s, if memory serves right), I frequently came home burned to a crisp despite sunscreen.

Now I sit on my porch and scoot inside for more iced tea whenever necessary. Saves $$ too

 

[Nevada Ed]

That is a great show if you get to see it.

Every year people in my town hope that it takes place and line up for tickets
to the Reno Air Races and the Reno Redeo and Rib Cook Off.

We have our fingers crossed.
Nothing like a fly by over town of the planes that come, a few days early, to drum up business, before the race starts.

You can hear them miles before you can see them.

How Sweet it is.

 

[lihpster]

Nothing like a fly by over town of the planes that come, a few days early, to drum up business, before the race starts.

You can hear them miles before you can see them.

How Sweet it is.

One year the B-2 was here. On the way out of town they flew low and slow and followed the river west. Gave everyone a good look.

 

[LVSteve]

In the picture I see one almost perfect aircraft, the P-51, and one wrong choice. It always was the YF-23 over the YF-22 IMNSHO. Such are the vagaries of our defense procurement system.

 

[Truckman]

That looks like it was part of the Heritage Flight......Ben

 

[AJ]

Lived aboard MCAS Cherry Point off and on for about 17 years. Had an air show every day. Some better than others. The yearly one open to the public had more and varied aircraft than our usual attack jets and lumbering C-130's.

 

[outta_ammo]

"One year the B-2 was here. On the way out of town they flew low and slow and followed the river west. Gave everyone a good look."

We saw the B-2 years ago at Whiteman AFB when we lived in Kansas. There were a LOT of guards around her.

 

[pittpa]

I am not so lucky. I live about 12 miles from the Pittsburgh airport. A lot of planes fly about 2000 feet over where I live. Most are just airliners. At night time some dark ones go by and they're loud and I asked Siri to open flight radar 24 and I can see what type of military plane they are. C17 for example. Tonight While I was on this thread I saw this one across the state line of West Virginia heading straight at me about 25 miles away. Before it turned north for the airport.

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[lihpster]

I am not so lucky. I live about 12 miles from the Pittsburgh airport. A lot of planes fly about 2000 feet over where I live. Most are just airliners. At night time some dark ones go by and they're loud and I asked Siri to open flight radar 24 and I can see what type of military plane they are. C17 for example. Tonight While I was on this thread I saw this one across the state line of West Virginia heading straight at me about 25 miles away. Before it turned north for the airport.

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How do you think Waldo gets all those places without people knowing?

 

[pittpa]

And I'll be damned if the space station didn't just go by overhead.


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[AJ]

"One year the B-2 was here. On the way out of town they flew low and slow and followed the river west. Gave everyone a good look."

We saw the B-2 years ago at Whiteman AFB when we lived in Kansas. There were a LOT of guards around her.

The most heavily guarded aircraft that I ever saw was an SR-71. That was before it was made public that it existed. Like the F-117, it was denied it existed before the public saw one for real.

 

[Skeet 028]

We got trained in rescue on the SR 71and others because they flew all sorts of military stuff into the airport in Baltimore...Westinghouse was on the edge of the airport and did all sorts of electronic work on them. We had to have security clearances to work there. When I started there they still had AA gun emplacements all around the airport...and the guns packed away in a hangar. I was told they had the guns on the pads during the Cuban missile crisis by one of the old guys who was there. He was supposed to cart ammo. There were also Nike missile sites all around Washington. I was on two many times. I was a barber in another life and cut the GIs hair once a week. I was cheap! We also had a P-38 a P-51 and a P-47 on one of the GA ramps.. Loved to see 'em fly in and out. They disappeared after about 3 or 4 years

 

[BigBoy99]

I was lucky enough to attend the retirment cermony for the SR-71 and I was able to take this picture!

(I don't know why the file manager rotated the picture when I attached it.)

 

[Greyman50]

A " Hipp" flies over my place every few days, state dept. trains pilots from small airfield close by. First time I heard it knew it was not US, one never forgets certain sounds of A/C. Part of so many air shows in 80's- 90's, may go to one if close, prefer seeing and going in older A/C. This was a very nice B-25.

 

[SS336]

The museum up there is great. One advantage is it's air conditioned.
I would like to see that air show. Sounds like the guys who live up there have a ringside seat.
That Mustang looks awesome, the jet looks kind of boring in comparison.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Being in the CB's. we got to see a lot of airplaes, back in the 60's when we went to fix up Islands that had storm damage to them.

On Guam, I got to see a U-2 taxi out of a hanger, down the run way picking up speed then taking off,
almost straight up !!

Back in the states on the Fallon air base as an Ironworker expanding and making improvements,
we got the see the "War games" that went on and the teachers would taxi up and park some of the mini jets 40 yards from us.

Planes, trains , cars and weapons.............. all enjoyable.

 

[AJ]

Been to Guam at the NAS on Transpac's. The U-2 was probably at Anderson AFB. Have been to NAS Fallon with our aircraft many times for heavy weapons deployments.

 

[LVSteve]

Fixed for you.

 

[JohnRippert]

We have a small local park called Cullinan a couple miles from the house. It is right next to a small airport. I often go birding there with my good camera. Caught this bird flying by one day.

 

[Absalom]

Jeez, that F-35 is loud. Just got through its routine for today.

Almost as bad as that time back in the 90s in the Panamint Valley, when an F-16 pilot decided to use my truck for a mock strafing run at a (at least perceived) 50 feet off the deck, and then pulled up with afterburners

PS: Oops, I spoke too early. Just caught the formation fly-by actually on cell camera:

 

[waffles]

Hell yeah! Some pics from the last air shows we went to. If hearing an F22 overhead doesn't get your blood pumping I don't think we can hang.

There's an alternate universe me out there that made their dreams of flight a reality, and another where I was a good photographer, but in this reality, these are the pics you get

 

[LVSteve]

Jeez, that F-35 is loud. Just got through its routine for today.

I call them SNUBs: Short, Noisy, Ugly, Buggers. Residents near Luke AFB curse them with gusto.

 

[outta_ammo]

PS: Oops, I spoke too early. Just caught the formation fly-by actually on cell camera:

We probably shot these within a couple of minutes of each other.

 

[terry_tr6]

Getting a ride on a B-17's at an air show still on my bucket list, now that i can afford it...
I used to commercial fish at night near Patrick AFB and would anchor up for a nap just south of the base and get woke up at dawn by fighters taking off overhead. great way to get up

 

[AJ]

Getting a ride on a B-17's at an air show still on my bucket list, now that i can afford it...
I used to commercial fish at night near Patrick AFB and would anchor up for a nap just south of the base and get woke up at dawn by fighters taking off overhead. great way to get up

None there now. I saw a CH-46 circling the other day and a C-130 sitting on the ramp. A long time ago (1980's) we would deploy there once in a while with our A6-E's for bombing on the Pine Castle ranges.

 

[bummer]

Jets are nice, but there is something about a piston engines sound

 

[BigBoy99]

Jets are nice, but there is something about a piston engines sound

There is nothing which can beat the sound of the Rolls Royce V12 Merlin engine found in Spitfires and some P51 Mustangs who are making a low pass overhead!.