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Offline nirvana

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« on: August 05, 2006, 03:01:59 PM »
Kept hearing the F16's buzzing around outside so I go out to look, they make one pass and go behind houses for a few minutes, all the sudden they come screaming back, then slowly roll in the V formation, soon enough I see 4 USAF F16's bearing down on me.  Coolest thing ever.  Then I was sitting inside here an they lit the afterburners over my house, dman near had a heart attack:)  I don't know why  people complain about it, I get goosebumps.
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2006, 03:11:31 PM »
saw something similar in march

Little nicer to be able to hear them rather then have them sneak up on you, light their burner and show off their climb rate.
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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2006, 03:14:22 PM »
Notice to Airmen:
There is an unlit aviation related boner 2.4 SW of the field, revised VOR-A & GPS minimums are as follows until further notice...
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2006, 03:24:24 PM »
:lol Debonair, sick bastage.
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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2006, 03:25:57 PM »
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Kept hearing the F16's buzzing around outside so I go out to look, they make one pass and go behind houses for a few minutes, all the sudden they come screaming back, then slowly roll in the V formation, soon enough I see 4 USAF F16's bearing down on me.  Coolest thing ever.  Then I was sitting inside here an they lit the afterburners over my house, dman near had a heart attack:)  I don't know why  people complain about it, I get goosebumps.


better make sure no one is setting up rocket launchers near your house:O
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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2006, 03:26:48 PM »
No we have A-10's that routinely take them out.
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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2006, 03:51:55 PM »
live 2 or 3 miles from St louis air natl guard unit and they are VERRRRY busy today.  I wonder what is in the works.
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2006, 04:14:54 PM »
Like I was saying, a few months ago we had some A10s doing bomb runs and such, large black clouds of smoke, just another day I guess.  The length that they were flying today was surprising though.
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2006, 05:23:02 PM »
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live 2 or 3 miles from St louis air natl guard unit and they are VERRRRY busy today.  I wonder what is in the works.


Umm, dude...first weekend of the month...that's when most units meet up.

Probably some sort of exercise.
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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2006, 06:11:50 PM »
I live about 6 miles from the NAS in Virginia Beach. Every now and then I drive over and park on the west side of the base and just sit and watch the Super Hornets fly the pattern. I need to take a drive up to Langley AFB and try and get some pics of the F-22 Raptor's doing they're thing.
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« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2006, 11:25:46 PM »
They used to have designated areas alongside the fence that you could watch from, now it's all developed so you can't really, unless you go to the east side, or some of the north.  Used to have a really nice view straight down the runway.
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« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2006, 07:16:06 AM »


3 Years ago, on a Sunday afternoon sipping a Magarita in Owasso, Oklahoma I had the opportunity of seeing a B2 on a low level pass over me.

Amazing how quiet they are, very graceful and when level very hard to see.

It was a memory I'll never forget.

Mac
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« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2006, 07:37:33 AM »
Late-70s, Privetnenskoye (Ino), North coast of Finnish gulf, near Leningrad. MiG-23s going 100m (i think) above our house...

Krasnodar, 1983, MiG-21s making barrel-rolls over the city.

Made us feel that noone will drop bombs on us until this guys are in the air.

Until late-80s we could hear a sonic-boom and explain what it is to our girls :) 6 months ago a sonic boom from a MiG-31 near Msk caused a panic :( People thought that another house was blown up by Chechens.
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« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2006, 09:00:51 AM »
BTW Boroda how's the Russian Submarine Fleet doing?

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« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2006, 09:42:27 AM »
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BTW Boroda how's the Russian Submarine Fleet doing?

Mac


It's doing well.

No need to float at Florida coast any more.

ICBM cruisers swim in White sea, ready to vaporize any target they get. From time to time they launch their missiles and hit targets at Kamchatka. Like 10m circles.

I woner if US military got stupid enough to send a submarine into White Sea.
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